Mr. Politically Correct Obama, Meet Your Opposite, India’s Mr. Modi The Daily Beast India’s new prime minister has been barred from the U.S. because of alleged links to a religious massacre, but that’s not the only reason a meeting with the president will be difficult. | NEW DELHI, India -- When Barack Obama was made aware that Narendra Modi would be India’s next prime minist...
Hypocrisy Equals Republicans-Downing Street Memo-Benghazi Equation WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | If hypocrisy is trying to show or make others believe that one has higher moral standards than one in fact does, then Republicans are on their way to becoming professional hypocrites. The moral lapse at hand was a sharply partisan vote by the Republic...
Expanding the GST would leave the poor and children worse off The Australian PHILLIP Hudson thinks that it is courageous for Tim Costello to call for an all-encompassing GST (“Costello shows worldly vision”, 19/5). I, however, find it sad to see a man such as Costello so blinded by his particular moral hobby horse...
Violinist discovers her music heals WorldNetDaily LaDonna Taylor claims when she started playing the violin, people were healed, felt the pain leave their bodies and even witnessed metal turn to bone! | See why Sid Roth says this guest will “stretch” your belief in the power of the blood...
Banco do Brasil to enter Orlando market Business Journal Brian Bandell Senior Reporter- South Florida Business Journal Email | LinkedIn | Twitter | Banco do Brasil Americas filed plans to open its first branch in Orlando. | The Miami-based bank, a subsidiary of one of the largest ba...
TTD launches ‘Subhapradam’ for schoolchildren The Hindu In order to propagate the moral and ethical values in society, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) in association with the Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad had launched the week-long Subhapradam programme at Vivekananda Vidyanikethan High School in Ka...
Men – make an effort with your smelly feet this summer The Guardian I deal with this issue every year. Now, thanks to the pioneering research of Yahoo Serious and the Ask Hadley Institute, I can tell you how | Movie star Yahoo Serious was part of the research team that discovered the SOMEA (BTWGLA) gene. Photograph:...
Batuhan: The tipping point Sun Star THE Thais used to be known as one of the meekest and most mild-mannered in Asia. Due in large part to the pacifist nature of Buddhism – the country’s main religion – Thailand...
Alarm as Uganda moves to criminalize HIV transmission IRINnews Kampala, 9 May 2014 (IRIN) - Activists in Uganda, where HIV prevalence is on the rise, have warned that new legislation criminalizing deliberate transmission of the virus will furt...
Corruption charges plague Israel's rabbinate Al Jazeera - For 10 years, Rabbi Yona Metzger served as Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, one of Israel’s highest religious authorities. | And during those 10 years, according to finding...
Dowd: The lesson of Condoleezza Rice The Salt Lake Tribune WASHINGTON • There has been much mockery of political correctness run amok on college campuses this spring, with knots of know-it-all students and teachers knifing their commencement speakers. | The Times’ Timothy Egan dubbed the protesters "comm...
Krauthammer: The sound and the fury — and the tweet The Salt Lake Tribune WASHINGTON — Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria — to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one’s indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism or a worthy new way of standing up to bad guys? | The answer seems rather ...
Morning Memo: Lawmaking, ‘Moral Monday’ protests return The News & Observer The lawmaking this year begins in earnest Monday and so do the protests. | Four bills sit on the Senate’s calendar for consideration when they meet at 7 p.m. including a contentious issue lingering from the 2013 session: , which would limit lo...
Ratko Mladic war crime defence due to begin BBC News The defence in the trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is due to begin on Monday. | The 72-year-old is one of the most high-profile suspects to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). | Mr Mladic denies 11 charges dating to the 1992-95 Bo...
Thousands flee floods in Bosnia and Serbia as death toll rises The Observer People evacuate in boats from Obrenovac, south-west of Belgrade, on Saturday. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters | Packed into buses, boats and helicopters, carrying nothing but a handful of belongings, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Bosnia and Serbia to escape the worst flooding in a century. | Rapidly rising rivers surged int...
