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Tunisia's second coming | UNCUT

When anyone feels the need to stage a counter-demonstration against theatre, it is time to sit up and pay attention.

Strombo | Saying Goodbye: Elephants Hold Apparent Vigil To Mourn Their Human Friend | CBC Television

Lawrence Anthony was a conservationist and author known as "The Elephant Whisperer". In 1999, he rescued and rehabilitated a group of wild South African elephants who were deemed dangerous. And the animals appear to remember what he did for them: when Anthony passed away March  …

Mexican Jihad :: Raymond Ibrahim

As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da'wa, converting Mex …

Great Depression Chocolate Pie

This recipe first appeared to me in my grandmother's cookbook, and had been written there for many years before me. She had met a woman at church who was visiting, (one who "talked funny, like one of those Europeans"), and the lady had shared this recipe with her circa 1932, rur …

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Let's Stop Calling Them

what have been dubbed "honour" crimes, an appellation that makes many uncomfortable because, despite these crimes being predicated on reclaiming a family's "honor" via the murder of the female family member who supposedly defiled it, civilized people can see that there is nothi …

Some briefs from Iran and what the Ayatollahs are facing right now!

  People’s increased hatred sends the chill and is reflected in the hierarchy! - The state-run Asr-e Iran said on July 6 that mullah Naghavian said: “At times, when I go to various agencies or I go to the airport and I see how extensive the level of disobedience …

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Epic and bravery in facing the Ayatollahs: Women fight the Ayatollahs: Memories of a former political prisoner of the 1980 s in IRAN- Part 1

I decided to print testimonies written by some of those who are under siege and under threat to be massacred in Camp Ashraf , those who have survived the animosities of the Ayatollahs because they stood firm to defend freedom.

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Pashtun Poets Challenge Religious Fundamentalism

Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and like-minded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, destroying schools, and murdering musicians, singers, and female dan …

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Our Most Amazing Visitors at Maison D'Light

    The most amazing visitors in our garden in 2011, was a flock of green parrots, officially called Monk Parakeets, or Quaker Parrots. We just call them Monk Parrots. more shots of our flock of visitors:

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Scientist Who Testified in Support of Mining Around the Grand Canyon Stands to Make $225,000 From It

As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining.

Arizona Wildfire 2011 Pictures | EgoTV

These Arizona Wildfire 2011 photos don’t really do the blaze proper justice, because the fire that’s currently engulfing Arizona and New Mexico is enormous.

Ghost Dancin' in the Middle East

Two articles in the Middle East Forum explain to the Western Mind much about the how the Arab Mind works and fails to deal with our modern, technologically advanced world.

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The Larger MidEast Picture | IsraelSeen.com

by David Bedein. As events in the Middle East unfold, it is hard to gain perspective on the larger picture of what is developing .

California blows $100 million building one new school, but doesn't have enough money to open it | IHTM

We don’t know what it’s like in the other 56 states, but in California we have an interesting situation in which morons are in charge of the education system. In Riverside, California (the Editor’s hometown) the voters approved construction of a new high school …

Extravagant Notes Printing by the Government of Pakistan: Its Remedies and Solutions

During the last ten years, foreign loans have surged up to around Rs.10,000 billion making every citizen under a debt of millions of rupees.

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The Egyptian Bill of Rights

Here is my suggestion for the Egyptian Bill of Rights, which I have spent the past week discussing with many civil forces and groups, and has managed to get a lot of support for it.

Al-Qaeda had warned of Pakistan strike

By Syed Saleem Shahzad This is the first article in a two-part report. ISLAMABAD - Al-Qaeda carried out the brazen attack on PNS Mehran naval air station in Karachi on May 22 after talks failed between the navy and al-Qaeda over the release of naval officials arrested on suspicio …

The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum Wooden masks, portraits and the occasional human skull mark the collections of this small museum near the French Quarter

Pajamas Media » Iran's Leader Orders Murder of Protesters in Syria

The Obama administration has substantiated charges of Iranian complicity in Syrian repression. On April 26, U.S.

No Pin Drops

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Mississippi floods force evacuations near Memphis - Yahoo! News

The levee system in Mississippi is holding for now but it has never been tested like this before, officials said.

Plastic-eating bacteria found in 'ocean desert,' scientist says – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

Scientists have found an organism that may be eating plastic in the ocean, according to a report in Nature News. But whether the bug is green or mean remains to be seen, a scientist told CNN on Wednesday.

Digging for Diamonds

Last month I reported than an Arkansas couple had found a flawless 2.44-carat silver white diamond at the Crater of Diamonds. A 3.86 ct. diamond found at Crater of Diamonds State Park. Image courtesy fox16.com A 3.86 ct. diamond found at Crater of Diamonds State Park.

Recent Votes

  • Tunisia's second coming | UNCUT

    When anyone feels the need to stage a counter-demonstration against theatre, it is time to sit up and pay attention.

  • EDITORIAL: Hold Holder in contempt - Washington Times

    + Justice has waited long enough. It’s time to pull the trigger on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for withholding documents from Congress in the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Allowing further delay would only confirm what man …

  • Saudi's Trump Card: Dump Salafism

    A Closer-Knit GCC  Saudi Arabia has made a futile attempt yesterday to forge a closer union of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Arab Gulf monarchies meeting in Bahrain were only lukewarm to the idea. It's not that the smaller members of the GCC don't recognize the  …

  • Strombo | Saying Goodbye: Elephants Hold Apparent Vigil To Mourn Their Human Friend | CBC Television

    Lawrence Anthony was a conservationist and author known as "The Elephant Whisperer". In 1999, he rescued and rehabilitated a group of wild South African elephants who were deemed dangerous. And the animals appear to remember what he did for them: when Anthony passed away March  …

  • Mexican Jihad :: Raymond Ibrahim

    As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da'wa, converting Mex …

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