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An interesting exchange.
McCain supporter Charles David Ficken descended upon an Obama rally in Raleigh, North Carolina with a 10-foot tall picture of Barack Obama in East African attire, shouting the United States doesn’t need a “Muslim-leaning” person for president. While exercising his free speech at the rally, so too did several [...]
I have never seen this kind of decline before.
In the third quarter of 2007, Volvo AB booked 41,970 European orders for new trucks. Guess how many prospective purchases Volvo, the world’s second-biggest maker of heavy rigs, received in the third quarter of this year?
Here’s a clue. Picture a highway gridlocked by [...]
More on Khalidi
Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Andrew Sullivan highlights more commentary on Khalidi. It appears that he is not the bogeyman that the far right would have you believe.
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Yeah, Obama is buddies with Sadam. This is just pure lunacy. What is next?
Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein’s regime. It’s a complicated connection, but one that deserves the consideration of Americans voters.Two similar figures, Nadhmi Auchi and Antoin S. “Tony” Rezko, served as [...]
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Khalidi is a professor of Middle East Studies at Columbia University and a longtime friend of Obama’s. Khalidi has publicly criticized Israel, but he and Obama have both said they hold very different opinions on Israeli issues.
McCain also has ties to Khalidi through [...]
Having no money is one thing. Having no food is another thing entirely.
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — The credit crunch is compounding a profit squeeze for farmers that may curb global harvests and worsen a food crisis for developing countries.
Global production of wheat, the most-consumed food crop, may drop 4.4 percent next [...]
Insolvent and struggling autoparts makers in Canada are begging the government for a cash infusion to help them keep the lights on.
The association claims 400 member firms producing 90 per cent of Canadian auto parts not made by the major auto companies themselves. It says the parts industry employed about 92,000 [...]
Pennsylvania is becoming the news capital of the world with Obama and McCain both trying to win the state in the upcoming election, the state home to this year’s World Series contendors and now a massive snowstorm.
PORTJERVIS, N.Y. – The first big snowstorm of the season in the Northeast closed [...]
Urban food has never made more sense. We should have more local produce and city gardens in this city. I’m glad to see local politicians are supporting this.
Farmers’ markets need a permanent place in Vancouver, said members of three civic political parties at the season’s final market held in Kitsilano yesterday.
Vision [...]
This is not something we are seeing much coverage of.
In an article on ipsnews.net, journalist and investigative historian Gareth Porter analyzed the final draft of the US Iraq Status of Forces Agreement on the US military presence in Iraq. He states that the agreement “represents an even more crushing defeat for [...]
