We aren’t there…yet Every couple minutes I see an “URGENT: US ARMY IN KOREA AT DEFCON 2!” scroll by, so I checked; By Jung Sung-ki [Yes it's from 2009, but it explains what goes on] Staff Reporter The South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) has upgraded its surveillance level on North Korea, Thursday, following the [...]
In addition to all the jobs ejecting from the former Golden State I’m now one step closer to having Heaven in Texas; IRVINE, Calif. (May 27, 2010) In-N-Out Burger is expanding the chain to Texas for the first time, the furthest East the California-based brand has grown, officials confirmed Thursday. The 240-unit chain is primarily [...]
I will not address whether babies have a sense of right versus wrong, only the way this matter was reportedly tested by the researchers who investigated it. Paul Bloom and his wife, Karen Wynn, of the Infant Cognitive Center at Yale University, conducted studies with babies and reached the conclusion that, indeed, babies have a moral sense. One piece of evidence supporting their conclusion was that babies tended to show a preference for people who were nice to other people and didn't much like
As the money crisis seems to grow worse in Europe, we have begun to wonder if there are parallels to the 1907 financial panic in the United States that gave rise to the Federal Reserve. The dominant social theme way back then (assuming an active po...
So it has come to this. In America, anyway, and surely in Europe too, regulatory authorities wish to be empowered to look at every click, every number, every trading strategy of ANYONE in order to detect fraud and make sure that markets are fair, open ...
“Memorial Day will forever mean something different to me“ From Skip Rohde; Memorial Day in Baghdad is not like it is in the States. Okay, so we got a full day off. Our little group was sitting around dinner in the DFAC last night discussing what our options were. Go to the beach? Nah [...]
The talk in the United States, especially, and Britain, too, is one of recovery. Even in Europe, we noted recently, there are digital maps available that show much of the Eurozone is coming out of "recession" and various indicators are turnin...
We are not much impressed by Israeli justice when it comes Mordechai Vanunu who has paid with a good deal of his life for apparently exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal. Presumably his persecution is supposed to be a warning to others not to tell Wes...
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau Published: 5/24/2010 9:25 PM Last Modified: 5/24/2010 9:25 PM OKLAHOMA CITY — The Legislature sent Gov. Brad Henry an insurance claims bill Monday that critics charge is a tax increase.
Sen. Randy Brogdon was outraged Monday afternoon when his colleagues in the Senate voted on a measure to create a health carrier fee – a move he says was in direct violation of the Oklahoma Cons...