"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Homeowners desperate to avoid the soaring costs of heating oil are stocking up now with firewood for next winter. Dealers have already sold all their seasoned wood and are now selling green wood at $250 a cord, up from $185…
AP says that since insurgents now longer control entire cities that the US is winning. But in the next breath they admit. Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years That’s…
Braving toxic fumes and oily, black water, 11 Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude’s Aurora tar sands operation, targeting the same two-kilometre wide tailings pond just north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, that made international headlines in March after 500 ducks landed on…
Joe Nocera of the NY Times after investigating rumors that Steve Jobs has serious health problems. On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter”— and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs…
Craig Murray is a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who resigned after his protests about US / UK complicity in torture there were ignored. In this post he responds to a complaint “from Darren who objected to my rather strong…