Globe Magazine again is breaking a story the lame brains in our so called media will not touch. “Michelle and the President are absolutely insulted,” reports the GLOBE, quoting its insider source. While other worldwide heads of state are invited, the Obamas have been excluded from the Royal nuptials, ostensibly because the affair is not [...]
The family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry “deserves better” than the information provided so far about the guns used to kill him in a border shootout, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley said in a letter this week that. Grassley, R-Iowa, has been pursuing allegations that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed [...]
Gene Allen knows his way around gold…as a color. He co-owns an industrial paint company, and a bright golden yellow is particularly popular with some of his clients. As an investor, however, Mr. Allen didn’t touch gold for decades. And for good reason: The 56-year-old remembers the metal’s 20-year losing streak. “I didn’t know how [...]
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) slammed a budget proposal from House Republicans as an effort to appease “its extremist Tea Party caucus,” pointing to such spending cuts as the defunding of public radio and TV stations. House Republicans have proposed to cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees money allocated to outlets such [...]
At Mazagon Dock near the southern tip of Mumbai, hidden behind high concrete walls, hundreds of Indian workers are putting the finishing touches on the hulls of two 217-foot Scorpène-class attack submarines, the first of six slated to be built over the next few years. Nearby, workers are adding to India’s fleet of stealth frigates [...]
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that while he believes President Obama is an American citizen and a Christian, Americans have a right to think otherwise if they so choose. “It’s not my job to tell the American people what to think,” Boehner said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” when asked about a recent [...]
Mexico’s drug-cartel violence lurks like a storm south of the border. The question of whether it will cross the border is often trumped by those asking when it will arrive. But the skeletal arm of criminal syndicates already stretches into Arizona. Distribution systems for drugs and undocumented people are well-established. For years now, those in [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and a group of state lawmakers plan to revoke the driver’s licenses of illegal immigrants. During her campaing, Martinez promised to crackdown on illegal immigration. She is getting behind a bill that would prevent illegal immigrants from getting a driver’s license. It would also revoke ones that [...]
CAIRO — Egypt’s military leaders dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution Sunday, meeting two key demands of protesters who have been keeping up pressure for immediate steps to transition to democratic, civilian rule after forcing Hosni Mubarak out of power. The military rulers that took over when Mubarak stepped down Friday and the caretaker government [...]
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Everything said about Egypt – the educated population, the proud history, the long civilization – all of it applies to Iran in 1979 as well, and it ended up hijacked by the Islamists. That’s the threat in Egypt today. The Brotherhood wants the institution of Sharia law. On its website it says that [...]
An Afghan aid worker is facing execution within three days for converting to Christianity. Said Musa, 45, was told by a judge that he would be hanged within days unless he reconverts to Islam. But the father of six has refused to renounce his faith, telling the Sunday Times, “My body is theirs to do [...]
MANASSAS, Va. — A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife attack in a Virginia suburb of Washington, authorities said Friday. Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the [...]
Like something from a science fiction film, the angular X-47B steadily taxis onto the runway ready for its maiden test flight. Launching itself into the California sky these pictures show the first of a new breed of unmanned drones, capable of flying themselves undetected to attack targets thousands of miles away. The new stealth plane [...]
In a northern district of Paris, a brave shopkeeper named Marie-Neige Sardin guards her newsstand like a military fort. As a white woman, she is a minority in the mostly Arab-speaking Muslim area. Sardin has been the victim of dozens of crime — raped, robbed, and having acid thrown at her, as other residents try [...]
In his recent USA speaking engagement tour, (January 2011), Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute revealed to the public for the very first time detailed construction plans for the Chamber of Hewn Stone: the seat of the Great Sanhedrin which is a central component of the Holy Temple complex on the Temple Mount. These [...]
Famously sadistic dictators like Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin share a personality profile marked by narcissism and paranoia, political psychologists say. But what of authoritarian-style dictators like Hosni Mubarak? Could an ordinary, well-meaning person turn into a repressive despot? Perhaps not overnight, but power does have an effect on the psyche, according to psychological research. [...]
A thousand talking heads and neo-conservative experts on the region assure us that a bright future stretches out before Egypt like a magic carpet. “Democracy,” “Freedom”, “Representative Government” are the buzzwords that trickle wetly out of their printers. All cynicism is disdained and skepticism swept into the dustbin. History is being made here. But the [...]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming residents would be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill that has cleared a legislative committee. The House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee voted 8-1 Friday in favor of the bill, sponsored by Casper Republican Senator Kit Jennings. It already has cleared the Senate and [...]
Phoenix police say a major player in the health-food supermarket industry has been arrested on suspicion of felony child prostitution. Michael Gilliland, the founder of Sunflower Farmers Market and Wild Oats Markets, was arrested Thursday afternoon at a hotel near Interstate 17 and Peoria Avenue, Sgt. Steve Martos said. Martos said Gilliland, 52, knew he [...]
MEXICO CITY – On an especially deadly day in Mexico’s most violent city, gunmen barged into a beer joint and killed eight people, six of them waitresses. Another 10 people were killed in other shootings in Ciudad Juarez during a 24-hour period ending early Friday. The city across from El Paso has long been plagued [...]