President Lula Da Silva of Brazil is leaving the presidency on January first after an impressive transformation of Brazil, both nationally and internationally. Brazil under Lula has gained visibility on the world map, not because of soccer (football) but because of the economic progress President Lula and his government have achieved. Coming from a modest family, President [...]

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Elton John and his long-time partner David Furnish are dads. While homosexuality is still a mystery, scientifically, two men cannot be fathers of one child. The real father must be Elton or David. Why is it that two gay men want kids? In physics, we understand how charges interact. We will never fully understand how two [...]

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From November 5 to December 24, retail sales in the US have risen to $584 billion. That means that Americans are spending despite this period of high unemployement and tough economic times. Where is the money coming from? For sure, this is a culture of credit cards, therefore the culture of spending more than what they have. It [...]

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A new year means new people in the Obama administration. The political environment will not be favorable for the US president as of January. It is unclear if the President’s bi-partisan approach to pass important legislation in December will continue for the next two years. The Presidential election is coming in 2012. Each political party has its own [...]

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While Christians are celebrating Christmas all around the world, Christians in Iraq are persecuted and killed in the land in which they have lived for thousands of years. Under Saddam Hussein, Christians were protected and Muslims and Christians coexisted. Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein’s former right-hand men, is a Christian. When I look back, I [...]

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Finally, the Alaskan Supreme Court has ruled against Tea Party candidate Joe Miller in his appeal after losing the election to Lisa Murkowski. Losing after winning the Republican Senate primaries must be hard to swallow. If Joe Miller was in a developing country, he would certainly claim massive fraud. If Joe Miller runs again in the [...]

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After a big loss in the mid-term elections, President Obama, who has changed his attitude toward his political opponents in the Republican party, is achieving more in the few weeks before the Republican party takes control of the House of Representatives. He has chosen to basically to go it alone, against his own political party, negotiating with [...]

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The failure to pass the Dream Act, the immigration law that would give a path to citizenship to thousands of illegal aliens who came to America as children, is a big disappointment for many of us who were hoping to see this complicated situation solved. These children come to America with their parents and have known only [...]

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Gays in the US military must be delighted with the repeal by lawmakers of “Don’t ask, Don’t tell,” a discriminatory law against gays in the military. It is a good and a bad thing. In our society, being gay is seen as a mental disorder. Being openly gay in the military can be difficult as well, [...]

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Every day that passes, Wikileaks offers more revelations about world leaders. The latest news is of Omar Al Bashir (the Sudanese President accused of genocide in Darfur by the International Criminal Court). He has stolen near nine billion dollars of his country’s funds during his reign and hidden it in foreign banks.  When you think about it, and you question [...]

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