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  • EDITORIAL The microwave tax

    Obama administration published new rules that will make microwave ovens less efficient and more expensive. It’s in the service of the global-warming scam.This is one of the first uses of ...

  • EDITORIAL Hugos gun dream

    Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. The law, which was ';guaranteed'; to save lives, was not the work ...

  • Tick Tock Make The Serve Pitch Putt Or Shot

    who swallowed a clock and shadows a terrified Capt. Hook. Somebody has to scare athletes into playing faster. In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowwwwwwly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. The pretentious preparation is interminable. In baseball, the pitcher holds the ball, pondering what to throw as if his decision -- a two-seamer or breaking ball -- would ...

  • Child labor jars with Islamic tradition

    By Ramzy Baroud In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on his cigarette, and a whole band of children run around in a refreshing chaos that breaks the monotony of the posh but impersonal ...

  • Militants torch NATO lifeline

    By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout. Last week, militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) torched three containers stuffed with supplies for ...


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Movie Review

Crash (1996)

It's rare that a controversial film deserves all the heated debate and hype surrounding its release, so when a film like David Cronenberg's "Crash" comes along, it's a shock in the truest sense. Here is a film that is genuinely disturbing, but not for the reasons you would immediately think of. While the sexual lives of the characters are deviant and often times repulsive, it's the film's cold, ca ... ...

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  • US-Taliban talks set to begin

    By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced on Tuesday that the US will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan's national reconciliation process. The announcement, which coincided with ceremonies marking the formal transfer of primary security ...

  • Hawks doves and pipeline politics in Syria

    By Peter Dale Scott Like President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, United States President Barack Obama's Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that the troops of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad "have used chemical weapons [i.e. Sarin] against rebel ...

  • Modernity makes a mark in Iran vote

    if you are interested in contributing. The June 14 election in Iran has not only shattered many prejudgments about the supposedly predetermined results of the 11th Iranian presidential poll on the international level, but it has also taken many inside Iran by surprise. The reformists, who have been subject to the most severe media criticism and sabotage ...

  • Cambodian opposition calls foul on election

    By Radio Free Asia Leaders of Cambodia's main opposition group said Tuesday that they will reject the results of upcoming national elections if the ruling party, which is widely expected to win, continues to disrupt campaigning activities of opposition party members. Nhem Ponharith, spokesman for the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) opposition coalition, told RFA's Khmer ...

  • My view People deserve rights at our borders

    The policies and practices of our harsh immigration system violate human rights: basic respect, dignity, safety and needs of ...

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