Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is a post-modern poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University. He has published over thirty collections and won both a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from [...]
The New York Times and Fox News: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned top White House officials in a secret three-page document that the U.S. does not have an effective strategy for dealing with Iran’s push toward nuclear capability, according to a published report. U.S. officials told The New York Times the classified memo, written [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A volcanic cloud of ash hovering over Europe is causing quite a scene in Hollywood and beyond. The ash spat out by an Icelandic volcano that has left thousands of air travelers stranded is also affecting celebrities, filmmakers, musicians and even pro-wrestlers. With almost two-thirds of Europe’s flights grounded, cancelations and [...]
Jerusalem Post: US officials expressed doubts Saturday as to whether Scud missiles were recently delivered to Hizbullah from Syria , as has been alleged. While senior American officials told Reuters that the “intent†was probably there and that some sort of transfer may have taken place, it was unclear “if the rockets themselves have changed [...]
TEHERAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader told a nuclear disarmament conference in Teheran on Saturday that the United States’ atomic weapons are a tool of terror and intimidation. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said America deceptively calls for non-proliferation while holding on to its own weapons and failing to confront Israel, which is widely believed to [...]
The scream: A radar image shows the crater of Eyjafjallajokull in southeast Iceland, which looks like the nightmarish face painted by Edvard Munch Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html#ixzz0lPMft9H2 April 17 (Bloomberg) — European airlines canceled more than 77 percent of their flights today as most of the continent’s northern and central nations remained closed to air traffic [...]
Rush Limbaugh: RUSH: Let’s go back, April 24th, 1995, Mississippi, Minnesota. CLINTON 1995: We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread [...]
Politico: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met with a delegation from the White House press corps for 75 minutes on Thursday in an effort to improve frayed relations between the two sides. Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said he asked for [...]
The Hill: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) warned that Democrats must match the Tea Party’s energy and enthusiasm or face the consequences in November. “At this point, I think the polls are showing that there is more enthusiasm with the tea party party,” Boxer said before taking the stage at the California Democratic Party’s convention in [...]