NEWSMAX COLUMN: [Former president Jimmy Carter] regarded the murderous Hamas terrorists as a legitimate political party. He has been soft on Iranian terrorism. But suddenly, when he has an opportunity to criticize a sitting president, he accuses President Obama of being too soft on ISIS. At the same time, he criticizes the president for employing […]
Doctors Without Borders Evolves as It Forms the Vanguard in Ebola Fight
NEW YORK TIMES: …The first to respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Doctors Without Borders remains the primary international medical aid group battling the disease there. As local health systems have all but collapsed and most outside institutions, including the United States military, have yet to fulfill all their pledges of help, the […]
With Fresh Start to do dirty work, Wolf stays above fray in governor’s race
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE COLUMN: Started in June by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf, the Campaign for a Fresh Start leads the attack against Republican Gov. Tom Corbett but allows Wolf to keep his hands clean and put forth a positive message, political analysts said.
Malala Yousafzai Becomes the Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner in History
DAILY BEAST: Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous, and near fatal, campaign to secure girls’ education. At 17, she is the youngest recipient in the century that the prize has been given. The Pakistani campaigner, who survived an assassination attempt at the age of 15, will share the award […]
One column, three subjects
1) Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor, gave a short but trenchant analysis of the ISIS danger on Good Morning America, stating that if the USA introduces our troops on the ground, we will start a twenty year war against Islam that will spread from the Middle East through Asia.
Tesla unveils exotic features and go-fast model
USA TODAY: … [CEO Elon] Tesla announced Thursday that the all-wheel-drive versions of its Model S electric car will manage a slight increase in range of about 10 miles on a charge vs. the rear-drive models — for a maximum of 275 miles — because of efficiencies designed into the new system. The AWD cars […]
Hong Kong government calls off talks with pro-democracy protesters
ALJAZEERA: Hong Kong’s government on Thursday called off planned talks with student pro-democracy protesters, dealing a blow to attempts to defuse a political crisis in which tens of thousands have taken to the streets calling for free elections and the resignation of its Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying… [Chief Secretary Carrie Lam] blamed the pullout on […]
Movie Reviews: “The Skeleton Twins”, “Keep on Keepin’ On” and “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly”, restored.
The first lifelike drama of the fall, “The Skeleton Twins” has opened at one of the local theaters and there hasn’t been a better adult, English language movie since the Oscar nominees finished their theatrical runs late this winter.
The Truth About Female Orgasms: Look to the Clitoris, Not the Vagina
DAILY BEAST: A groundbreaking new study says there’s no such thing as a “vaginal orgasm” and that the elusive “G-spot orgasm” is elusive for a reason: because it simply doesn’t exist. Published in the forthcoming issue of Clinical Anatomy, the controversial study, which will surely upset the G-spot obsessed editors at Cosmopolitan, exalts the clitoris (called, somewhat creepily, the “female penis” by the study’s authors) as the sole source of the female orgasm.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA
“[Craig] Sheetz, a career prosecutor who returned to the DA’s office this summer in an administrative role, was right to resign. And Stedman was right to accept his resignation
President Obama and the federal “Legalization” of cannabis
Perhaps Obama would feel less guilty about his youthful pot smoking if he realized that the law he broke was based on Richard Nixon’s need to punish the youth of the Sixties and that his own use of cannabis almost certainly helped him compensate emotionally for the absence of his biological father from his life.
Wal-Mart Ends Health Coverage for Part-Timers, Cites Obamacare
NEWSMAX / AP: …Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that starting Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move affects 30,000 employees, or about 5 percent of Wal-Mart’s total part-time workforce, but comes after the company already had scaled back […]
Life expectancy in the USA hits a record high
USA TODAY: …Life expectancy in the USA rose in 2012 to 78.8 years – a record high. That was an increase of 0.1 year from 2011 when it was 78.7 years, according to a new report on mortality in the USA from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics… Those […]
China surpasses U. S. as worlds largest economy
FINANCIAL TIMES: …Now it is official. In 2014, the International Monetary Fund estimates the size of the US economy was $17.4tr and the size of China’s economy was $17.6tr as in the chart below… The China phenomenon is part of a wider expansion of emerging markets’ output relative to the advanced world. They accounted for […]