Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the…
August 8, 2009 | Posted by Michael Laprarie |
So says Nilda Garcia, a Cuban refugee now living in south Florida. This week, Cuba celebrated 50 years of Communist Revolution — 50 years of poverty, squalor, sickness, paranoia, abuse,…
January 3, 2009 | Posted by Michael Laprarie |
I first began to realize the Ron Paul campaign was over as I found fewer and fewer instances of his deranged followers on the blogs. No more "viral" stacking of…
April 20, 2008 | Posted by Jim Addison |
Violence continues in Tibet as Chinese security forces move to crush protests. At least ten people have been killed so far, reports Audra Ang for the Associated Press: Soldiers on…
March 15, 2008 | Posted by Jim Addison |
The Webs of Death approach. Repent! Repent! Via The Associated Press: Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the…
August 31, 2007 | Posted by Jim Addison |
On this day in 1987, President Ronald Reagan addressed a teeming crowd at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, yards from communism's most enduring symbol, the Berlin Wall, and challenged Gorbachev…
June 12, 2007 | Posted by Jim Addison |
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