NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s cut the sovereign long-term foreign currency credit rating on Cyprus deeper into junk status on Thursday, lowering the rating to CCC from CCC-plus as the country struggles with a banking crisis. The European Union gave Cyprus until Monday to raise the billions of euros […]
What sequester? Department of Education posts six figure job.
20 March 2013 by
Federal budget cuts are sending a chill through the Native American school districts in Minnesota. (AP) The Department of Education’s sequester cuts are taking a brutal toll on federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, but the federal agency still found money to create a new six-figure job promoting “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.”School officials on reservations […]
A southern boom. Latin America ignites.
18 March 2013 by
In the annals of geopolitical insults, few have been more sweeping than Richard Nixon’s admonition to a young Donald Rumsfeld as he pondered his future career. “Latin America doesn’t matter,” he offered. “People don’t give a damn about Latin America”. He said it in 1971. Would anyone in Washington dare say it again? If the […]
Poisoned by dark forces…
17 March 2013 by
Venezuela’s interim leader has opened an investigation into the death of Hugo Chavez, amid speculation the late president’s cancer was the result of an elaborate poisoning plot by foreign enemies. The acting President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor, told the Telesur TV network, “We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark […]
Guilty of rape – too impaired to consent.
17 March 2013 by
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS (AP) Defense attorney Walter Madison, right, holds his client, 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond, second from… Full Image STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Two members of Steubenville’s celebrated high school football team were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio’s attorney general warned the case isn’t over, saying he is investigating […]
Tunisians mark Shokri Belaid’s assassination. Turns into rally against government.
17 March 2013 by
Belaid, a leftist lawyer, was shot at close range outside his Tunis home on February 6 [Reuters] Thousands of Tunisians have taken to the streets of the capital Tunis to demand the fall of the Islamist government they blame for the assassination of a leading secular politician 40 days earlier. Saturday’s demonstration was the biggest since Shokri […]
Connecticut state sentator – No female interns
3 March 2013 by
In defending himself over allegations that he made an inappropriate remark to a 17-year-old girl, Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett (D-New London) may have dug himself into an even deeper hole. Hewett was already under fire for telling a high school senior who had described her fear of snakes in a public hearing that, “If […]