The 84 year-old seven-term Republican Senator has relinquished his appropriations committee chairmanship. He is accused of not properly reporting bribes in the form of gifts from a construction company. He is down in the polls in his current primary battle.(Read more...)
The following plays, about 1 hour each, are available: Dracula Treasure Island The 39 Steps Three Short Stories: I'm a Fool, The Open Window, and My Little Boy Abraham Lincoln The Affairs of Anatol The Count of Monte Cristo The Man Who Was Thursday The Immortal Sherlock Holmes Hell on ...(Read more...)
The financial peril of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--the government-sponsored, government-regulated mortgage giants regarded as instrumental in solving the nation's mortgage market problems--has one benefit. It should help expose the lie that today's financial problems are the result of an insufficiently regulated market...(Read more...)
From Wikipedia: In February 2007, the central bank of Zimbabwe declared inflation "illegal", outlawing any raise in prices on certain commodities between 1 March and 30 June 2007. Officials have arrested executives of some Zimbabwean companies for increasing prices on their products. Economists generally suspect...(Read more...)
Fascinating three-part interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959. If you haven't seen it, this is definitely worth watching. And if you have, it is worth watching again! You get a real feel for Rand not only as a sharp, perceptive and original thinker, but also as one who responds in a measured, respectful tone to ...(Read more...)
Fascinating three-part interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959. If you haven't seen it, this is definitely worth watching. And if you have, it is worth watching again! You get a real feel for Rand not only as a sharp, perceptive and original thinker, but also as one who responds in a measured, respectful tone t...(Read more...)
Serbian poet-psychiatrist-psychopath Radovan Karadzic (rhymes with "garage-itch") has been arrested after a 12 year manhunt. (He is pictured here hiding under a badger.) European authorities expect to hold him until he commits suicide from sheer boredom, as did his fellow traveller, Slobodan Milosevic, (rhymes with "...(Read more...)
