Ground Convoy Drives Out, Quietly
AT THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER—The final convoy of U.S. troops left Iraq early Sunday, bringing a nearly nine-year military mission to a definitive close. The column of armored trucks and tractor […]
Attention Shifts to Pyongyang’s Young Leader
http://pix04.revsci.net/G07608/a4/0/0/pcx.js?csid=G07608SEOUL—After the sudden death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, attention swings to his third son, Kim Jong Eun, who has been named as the new leader of the isolated country. A smooth transition of power is far from certain. Kim Jong Eun, born either in 1983 or 1984 […]
Maulana Naseem Mehdi delivering the invocation at State of Pennsylvania Assembly
Maulana Naseem Mehdi gave the invocation during the opening of session at the House of Representatives in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Mehdi is the national vice […]
US formally ends war effort in Iraq
The article is not worth reading. Therefore I am just copying one of the comments: MUKHTAR N. SHEIKH, Dec 16, 2011 10:04 Queer, isn’t it? After all the deaths (4,500 […]
Breakthrough could double solar energy output at way cheap cost
A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight. Also it’s way cheap. Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of […]
S.E.C. Sues 6 Former Top Fannie and Freddie Executives
The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought civil actions against six former top executives at the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying that the executives did not adequately disclose their firms’ exposure to risky mortgages in the run-up to the financial crisis. The case is one of the […]
Cartoon of the day. Iraqis …
US GO HOME !!! With Pleasure !!!
In their own words: 8 lives changed by the Iraq War
Source: CNN ‘I don’t know if it was all worth it’ Emily Trageser, 31, joined the Army in 2000 and deployed to Iraq for the 2003 invasion with the 101st Airborne Division. She returned to the United States in early 2004. I don’t think that the gravity of what we […]
Married couples at a record low
By Carol Morello, The Washington Post The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society. Just 51 percent of all adults who are 18 […]
US and Israel: The historic love affair
By: Meher Usman We’re often told that international relations are not bound by any morality or values, may it be a relationship of friendship or animosity, and they ought to be based on either of the actor’s personal and selfish interest. Amazingly enough, in the same world, we have witnessed […]
Jobless Claims in U.S. Drop to Three-Year Low
The number of applications forunemployment benefits unexpectedly dropped last week to the lowest level in three years, showing the U.S. labor market is healing. Jobless claims dropped by 19,000 to 366,000 in the week ended Dec. 10, the fewest since May 2008, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The […]
Philosopher Sticks Up for God
For too long, Mr. Plantinga contends in a new book, theists have been on the defensive, merely rebutting the charge that their beliefs are irrational. It’s time for believers in the old-fashioned creator God of the Bible to go on the offensive, he argues, and he has some sports metaphors […]
Obama hails ‘extraordinary’ US achievement in Iraq
FORT Bragg, North Carolina (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday honoured America’s nearly nine years of “bleeding and building” in Iraq, hailing the “extraordinary achievement” of a war he once branded “dumb”. “Welcome home, welcome home,” Obama cried in an aircraft hangar in North Carolina, basking in the “Ooh […]
China shifts gears from inflation to growth
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Taming rapidly rising prices is so 2011. In the new year ahead, China’s top leaders will focus instead on slowly revving up the world’s second largest economy. At least, that’s the message economists glean from reading in between the lines of an official government release Wednesday. […]
Murdoch was sent ‘hacking is rife’ email
Source / Courtesy: The Independent Emails published today show that News International boss James Murdoch was sent details in 2008 of claims that phone-hacking was “rife” at the News of […]
Separation of Mosque-Church and State
Source: September 2011 Alislam-eGazette This post is part of the Muslim Times’ campaign to demystify Sharia Law and diffuse the propaganda of the fundamentalist Christians and power grabbing politics of the […]
Shoppers slow down
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Consumers slowed the pace of their shopping in November, but that might not bode ill for the entire holiday season. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales were up 0.2% compared to October. The result was well short of the 0.6% increase forecast by economists […]
Iran almost done decoding US drone
By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN: Iran claims its experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, from […]
The problem with Gingrich’s simplistic attack on sharia: Read More on Muslim Times on What is Sharia?
Washington Post: Opinion by Michael Gerson: ……Who else shares this interpretation of sharia law? Well, totalitarians naturally do. Gingrich joins Iranian clerics, Taliban leaders and Salafists of various stripes in […]
Lowe’s Pulls Ads from TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’
courtesy: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images UPDATED: But a TLC rep says: “There is strong advertising support for the show.” NEW YORK – Retail giant Lowe’s has pulled advertising from Discovery Communications-owned TLC’s reality show All-American Muslim. all-american-muslim-sneak-peek The conservative Florida Family Association in a statement said it has sent […]