Feminists complain that unrealistic body images in the media are harmful to women and girls. As I've written before (one example here), I think they have a point.
It was one thing in previous eras, when actresses, models, etc. were in the top
Noting the US budget deficit might exceed $1,000bn (€785bn) even before his campaign promises and new spending plans were taken into account, factored in, Mr Obama said: “We understand that we’ve got to provide a blood infusion to the patient right n
[To become Obama's Ambassador to Mexico... just kidding.] When Tom Tancredo, the lightning-rod Colorado conservative, went to Congress a decade ago, he promised he wouldn't disappear in Washington. He sure didn't.
When the Washington Nationals played their first-ever baseball game in the nation's capital, 2 congressmen who oversaw mortgage giant Freddie Mac had choice seats; courtesy of the very company they were supposed to be keeping an eye on.
[Just shoot us already!] The self-styled mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge at Guantanamo on Monday that they wanted to confess and plead guilty. The defendants said in a note to the judge that they ma
Standard & Poor’s recently lowered its credit rating on the Times Company below investment grade, and Moody’s Investors Service has said it was considering a similar move. Times Company stock, which has lost more than half its value this year...
The hit TV series Rescue Me, a drama about New York City firefighters, is set to feature a 9/11 conspiracy plot in the first ten episodes of the new series, according to the show’s main star Denis Leary. (Truth?? We'll See)
The price of oil has dipped to levels that could be far too low for many advanced-biofuel startups to succeed, especially those that attracted investment this summer, while oil was well above $100 a barrel. (Ya Think?)
The politically correct opinion at the ongoing UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change meeting in Poznan, Poland,
has been best stated by media mogul Ted Turner:
“Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global
warming is scaring the l
Most U.S. mortgages modified by lenders to help keep struggling borrowers in their homes fell back into delinquency within six months, the chief regulator of national banks said.
According to research firm First American CoreLogic, in August 2008, 5 percent of U.S. jumbo prime mortgages -- those over $417,000 -- were behind payments 60 days or more.
If one is not 'BORN' a natural born citizen, he can never BE a natural born citizen. On Monday U.S. Supreme Court Deputy Director of Public Information Patricia McCabe Estrada informed Leo C. Donofrio that the full court, meaning all nine jus
The real issue from the article is just how bad things are at the high end. Resorts that commanded $2,000 per night with 100% occupancy, now can't sell the rooms for half that rate . . . and they are running at 20-40% occupancy rates.
The more money we hand over to Wall Street, the harder this Depression will be on everyone . . . and the more violent. I don't see any way to avoid a Depression. Nor do I see any way to avoid civil unrest to rival anything we might imagine.
Why is Chase evaluating their home equity lines today using a L.T.V. of 50 percent? You do realize that allowing your credit underwriting standards to swing so far to the other side is detrimental to our nation’s economic recovery, right?
The nation’s elite universities disdain honest intellectual inquiry, which is by its nature distrustful of authority, fiercely independent and often subversive. They organize learning around minutely specialized disciplines, narrow answers and rigid
About 5,000 jobs will be cut, 20 facilities permanently closed, 180 plants temporarily idled and the company’s contractor workforce will be reduced by about 6,000 worldwide, Midland, Michigan-based Dow said today in a statement.
What to expect from the Libertarian Party for the next 2 years at the national level. What will happen at the 2010 convention will depend on the perceived viability of the Libertarian Party as a vehicle to attain freedom in America.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting people familiar with the matter, said a bankruptcy filing could come as early as this week. It said Tribune Co.'s cash flow may not be enough to cover nearly $1 billion in interest payments that are due this year.
Objecting to the fact that the Government planned, as usual, to raise the money by issuing bonds which would be bought by the banking and non-banking sector -- which would then have to be paid back with money raised from taxes, and with interest adde
Five weeks after the state of Hawaii vouched for the authenticity of President-elect Barack Obama's birth certificate, the controversy over allegations that Obama is not eligible to take office next month has reached the Supreme Court, which is e