Politics

New York Helicopter-Plane Crash

The Hudson River along Manhattan’s skyline was the sight of a traffic collusion between a helicopter and a small plane today, August 8, 2009.

A tour helicopter – Eurocopter AS 350 operated by Liberty Tours – and a Piper PA-32 plane – which…

The Lebanese Auto Nazi

Nazism has a long history in Lebanon. In 1936, Pierre Gemayale was a young athlete at the Berlin Olympics. Fascinated by the organization of the Nazi state he wanted to emulate it in Lebanon and founded the student organization al-Katab [Phalange] in…

Israeli Nukes and Arab Irrationality

Newly declassified State Department documents [thorough review in Ha’aretz] detail a lot about U.S. and Israeli thinking on Israel’s development of nuclear weapons.

First, we learn that then army chief-of-staff Yitzhak Rabin believed that Israel’s…

Saudi Law: Breast Enhancing Is Halal, While Nose Jobs Are Haram

Saudi law does not have much a legislative body. Until a few years ago, there wasn’t even the facade of one. Now the Saudis have the honor of have a male-only parliament where half of the MPs are elected in elections where only men are allowed to vote;…

Inspire the child, Save the rod

A pinch, a slap, a wack with a stick or ruler,or sometimes made to stand in an uncomfortable position for long.I am sure all of us who have been through the process of school education, would have either witnessed or experienced first hand, some kind of..

My Kenyan Birth Certificate

The radical, lunatic and racist Right has found a new cause against Obama: Kenyan birth. Before it was that he was a secret Muslim but that conflicted with their effort to make a big scandal out of Obama’s relationship with his radical leftist pastor…

Philippines’ Icon of Democracy Ms Aquino Passes Away

Ex-president of Philippines and global icon of democracy Miss Corazon Aquino died on Saturday (August 01, 2009) at the age of 76. She had been suffering from colon cancer for the past 16 months.

Ms Aquino, remembered generally as the ‘woman in…

High Jump Silver Medal Winner Falls To Prostitution

Six years ago every thing was going according to the plan. Nisha, who represented Assam in National Athletics in Pune in 1998 and had worked hard, won the silver medal in high jump in the national level athletics meet in Pune. Obviously she was on…

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