Kim Appointment May Spur Changes at the World Bank
Source: The New York Times ITHACA, NEW YORK — The World Bank has a new president, but many questions remain about whether the selection process was indeed transparent, open and merit-based, […]
Flag Football Team Wears Hijab To Support Irum Khan, Muslim Player, At Florida School
Huff Post A flag football team took a stand against discrimination by donning hijabs in support of their Muslim teammate. Members of the West Broward High School team wore the traditional […]
One In Two College Graduates Are Jobless Or Underemployed
Source: Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults […]
A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids
Source: Wall Street Journal – By AMIR EFRATI A new company backed by two Google Inc. GOOG +0.07% billionaires, film directorJames Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target. The venture, called Planetary Resources Inc., revealed little in a press release this week except to […]
What fuels the American-German love-in?
Credit: The Local Americans like Germans more than much ever before, a new poll found this week. But why? It can’t just be gratitude for sending troops to Afghanistan. And do Germans feel the same way about US citizens? More:
A Dangerous Mind?
On April 12, Mr. Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison. Hearing this, most Americans would probably assume that the F.B.I. caught a major homegrown terrorist […]
Pastor Emeritus Nelson Price: ‘May professed spirit of Ahmadiyya increase’
By Nelson Price Columnist, The Marietta Daily Journal There are almost as many sects of Muslims as there are Baptist denominations. Most often in the news are Sunnis and Shiites. […]
Philadelphia priest abuse trial a test case for Catholic church
By Sarah Hoye, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) – It’s been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children. The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, […]
(another) $680m US fund for Israel’s Iron Dome
The Associated Press – ARABNEWS WASHINGTON: A House panel is boosting money for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system by $680 million amid an election-year fight over whether President Barack Obama is doing enough for the longtime Mideast ally. The Republican-controlled Armed Services Committee, which begins crafting a fiscal 2013 […]
The Relationship Between Christianity and Capitalism
Huff Post Just as, 50 years ago, liberalism was the vital center of our politics, our religious landscape then was dominated by mainline Protestants and a Catholic Church becoming less Roman and more American every year. One of the most symbolic events occurred in 1958 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower […]
Does Religion Matter? Time to End Profiling
Huff Post: Congress recently held a hearing titled, “End Racial Profiling in America.” The scope of the hearing was unique in so far as it was not only limited to the experiences of African Americans and Latinos but encompassed the American Muslim one, too. While African Americans and Latinos have […]
Sceptics are preparing for disaster
Americans sceptical of the country’s future are preparing for economic collapse and a fascist regime reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
The instructive timing of the crackdown on nuns
Washington Post: There were two Santa Maria! stories out of the Vatican this week. First, the bad news: The ultra-traditionalists of Marcel Lefebvre’s Society of St. Pius X are another step closer to being […]
For I.M.F., Pledges, and Demands, Are Rolling In
WASHINGTON — Major emerging powers stood ready Friday to pledge money to bolster the International Monetary Fund’s crisis-fighting war chest, though Brazil was holding out for promises that the bloc’s voting power would increase at the global lender. Russia said Thursday that the Group of 20leading advanced and emerging economies […]
Muslim youth association visits Port Hope Saturday
Northumberland TODAY: PORT HOPE — In 14 months, the Ahmadiyya Muslin Youth Association of Canada has visited 200 communities in Canada, its 2,649 volunteers helping them reach 1.3-million people in a bid to promote peace, condemn terrorism and dispel myths about Islam. On Saturday, they will make a stop at […]
Ashley Judd Has Grit
She first appeared on my radar after starring in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Judd played her Tennessee Williams-type role with an elegant, uniquely Southern neurosis. Throughout the film, human frailty seeped from every pore. I gained even more respect for her after reading her biography. Getting knocked around in […]
How Pakistan makes US pay for Afghan war
Credit: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr M, a jihadi in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, which killed six Americans. After sifting through a vast cache […]
who violated the public trust and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation,
Credit: Times of India “These are the first steps,” said Rep. Pete King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees the Secret Service. King said the agency’s director, Mark Sullivan, took action against “the three people he believes the case was clearest against.” But King warned: “It’s certainly […]
Liberals have forgotten how to make the religious case for liberal causes
AlJazeera: New Haven, CT – Every four years, the United States spasms with all sorts of manufactured outrage in the run-up to the election. 2012 is no exception. The latest in […]
Scientists get heart data from Gorillas
CNN|Added on April 18, 2012 National Zoo puts implantable recorders into gorillas in hopes of learning more about heart disease in the species. http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2012/04/19/gorilla-hearts.cnn