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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48983-2003Jun29.html?nav=hptop_tb Bush & the Republicans, with deficits as far as the eyes can see, add more to the hefty covers of government deficit spending on senior benefits by adding a prescription drug coverage. Is it a complete 180 for...

New Washington Post Poll on Bush, ect. was released today with some interesting numbers. You can see the whole thing plus trends here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/vault/stories/data062403.htm?nav=hptop_ts, but I'll highlight the interesting numbers. Bush's approval...

So, a few weeks ago Cuba makes the news for following the old communist line of throwing anyone who thinks different in jail, and executing a few who were going to do something about it. However, out of the crackdown something interesting emerges: a man called Oswaldo Paya, leader of the...

I am giving an extemperanous speech tomorrow on how to be a good international tourist. I’m looking for some anecdotes and tips from many of my international friends here, of course. The audience will be entirely American, so from any locals I need tips, and from foreigners I need do or do...

Somewhere buried under vital stories about looting: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,183736,00.html Pyongyang agrees to N-talks Breakthrough for three-way meeting next week In complete heresy: "The relatively quick US-led victory over Iraq appears to have...

Ahh, two of the favorite OT topics coming together. There have been endless discussions here about the bias of journalists, and the pursuit of objectivity in news media coverage. The deaths of foreign journalists have sparked off a phenomenon of this...

In more news that is burried below Iraq, everyone's favorite dictator and best example of communism at work, Castro, has decided he'll expand his legacy a bit longer. Here's the story from USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-04-09-cuba_x.htm Here is what the Cuban...

Here are two important stories that can hardly see the light of day with all the war coverage, but I feel deserve to be discussed: Seoul seeks united stance on North SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's foreign minister is to visit Washington in a bid to resolve the standoff over North...

Brothers in arms - Family members choose different paths to war http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/123186 Excerpt: "It was the Clinton administration, the economy was strong and war didn't seem to be on the horizon,'' Travis said. "Not once did any of the recruiters I spoke with...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030114.asp Maybe its too early to celebrate, but its about time. At long last, vulnerability arrives. The Iraq war has lower support than previous polls (the poll was taken before all the coverage this weekend)...

I noticed a few people, while explaining their political backgrounds, mentioned the days of yore when they used to parlay with the junior Communists society. Being of the same case history as them, I was curious how common this is on our boards. For the purpose of this poll, I'm using...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/10/16/us.nkorea/index.html Article quote: North Korea has revealed to the United States that it has a secret and active nuclear weapons program begun years after it promised to never again to pursue such a course, the White House said late Wednesday. Don't know...

After 5 decades of heads in the sand policy, North Korea is finally going to open its first 'special economic zone' allowing most aspects of liberal capitalism to enter the country for the first time. See, it didn't take them THAT long to admit they were wrong...

Greetings my peasant friends :D After the endless debates on economic theory and fact that circulate these boards, I think the major differences in opinion break down to economic priorities. Essentially, the different systems: market capitalism, market socialism, and command socialism, and...

With all the pointless polls floating around, I'm hoping to avoid wrath by sneaking this one in. <----This avatar isn't working for me, I need a new one. So, which one do you like best (they are all 3k or 4k in avatar size)? Smiley (couldn't find a :D) Flag (For my patriotic side)...

Okay, so maybe I'm a little too optimistic. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/28/sugar.cars.reut/index.html Cars that run on glucose and produce water? It'll happen within my lifetime. The demand is great enough, and the technology is moving right along. This type of innovation...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/01/vegas.strippers.ap/index.html Summary of the interesting part of the article: This is moralism at its worst. So she sits in a room and watches secret suviellence videos (taken at taxpayer expense from law enforcement officers who could have been...

So by the end of the month I am going to a Senior at University, and will graduate within a year with a degree in Political Science and Economics; and I am in the same place now as I was four years ago entering my Senior year of High School: I don't know what I want to do with my life. Then I...

My title. http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/07/22/kuwait.nocoeds.ap/index.html U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, in 1954 said it best: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are...