Source: CNN Mitt Romney and President Obama’s good-natured exchange of jokes at the 2012 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner Thursday night renewed a fine American tradition of applying the balm of laughter to the bitterness of politics. Every year, a tuxedo-clad cross-section of the nation’s political and economic elites […]
Quotation from the Wall Street Journal: read full article here: “According to a new national survey of China’s household income, China’s richest 10% control 56.9% of household income and 84.6% […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Several big Wall Street bank CEOs on Thursday urged Congress and President Obama to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” In an urgent letter dated Oct. 18, the Financial Services Forum pressed leaders to “reach a bipartisan deal to avoid” massive tax hikes and across-the-board program cuts that […]
Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit. By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure. The research, published in separate […]
Source: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are […]
Source: TOI: WASHINGTON: At least 20 people have died and another 257 have been infected by the outbreak of deadly meningitis, linked to a contaminated drug, a federal health agency has said. The disease has now spread to 16 States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, adding […]
Gas prices: There’s not much that presidents can do about them GOP nominee Mitt Romney makes sure he gets to make his point even as debate moderator tries to move on. By John W. Schoen, NBC News When you pull up to that gas pump and nearly faint […]
After 80 years in print, the newsmagazine adopts an all-digital format. We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be […]
The Times of Israel: Well, it’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? Demeaning. Risible. Absurd. Two grown men squaring off against each other as though they were boxers. Preening, pulling themselves up […]
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1273044–republicans-reduced-to-empty-rhetoric-on-defence-siddiqui Republicans reduced to empty rhetoric on defence: Siddiqui Published on Wednesday October 17, 2012 Share on twitter Share on facebook By Haroon Siddiqui The Toronto Star – Editorial Page It’s more than his language that makes Mitt Romney yesterday’s man. His “whole binders full of women” and letting working […]
Source: Stratfor: “Defining al Qaedais republished with permission of Stratfor.” The Obama administration’s efforts to counter the threat posed by al Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement have been a contentious topic in the U.S. presidential race. Political rhetoric abounds on both sides; administration officials claim that al Qaeda has […]
For all the political differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney, it’s important to remember there is more in humanity that unites than divides. Consider what author David Maraniss discovered […]
Source: Asiatimes: LOS ANGELES – It’s the meme cycle that ate this city – and the nation, for that matter. No one can escape the attack of Binders Full of Women; from Tumblr to a tsunami of tweets, from the coolest Facebook page in ages [1] to a 2 Live […]
Russian TV: The money-ruled American political system has a pretty straight-ahead Wall Street agenda and is designed to eliminate opposition the way dictatorships do, Jill Stein, the US presidential candidate for the Green Party, shared with RT. She believes that both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have essentially the same […]
RT: The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national they say intended to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan this morning, only a few blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. The man, identified as Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is reported to have conspired […]
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2012 — Second event in Science and Islam series opens discussion on clash and reconciliation within Muslim community of personal belief and scientific principle BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Islamic Congress (AIC) and Project Nur will present the second panel event in their Science […]
Story Summary by Rami G. Khouri Sometimes things happen so slowly that the casual observer misses them, and one such occurrence is the slow evolution in the United States’ position in its faceoff with Iran. Two important things seem to have occurred since the spring: Washington seems to have taken […]
Author: Jon Ostendorff with contribution from The Associated Press Source: Citizen-Times.com A Billy Graham Evangelistic Association article labeling Mormonism a cult has been removed from the group’s website following the 93-year-old evangelist’s meeting with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week. Graham, during the meeting, pledged to do “all I can” […]
Russian TV: Many gave a sigh of relief after the papyrus fragment known as the “Gospel of Jesus’ wife” turned out to be a fake. The text hailed as “old […]
A coalition of religious organizations representing a broad spectrum of faiths is buying up ad space in Metro stations to counter an advertising campaign mounted last week that many observers see as anti-Muslim. Shoulder to Shoulder, which includes 28 member groups representing Christians, Jews and Muslims, is placing in three […]