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Obama, The Victim

Obama continues to complain that Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him with false and even ridiculous descriptions and accusations. Thus at a recent campaign appearance in Duryea, PA: “I...

WaMu ousts CEO, put under U.S. regulatory oversight

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, ousted Kerry Killinger as chief executive and was put under special regulatory supervision following...

Mutual (Option) of Oh-My-Ha

Carlos Delgado slugged two home runs off Cole Hamels in the Sunday Night Game of the Week. There have now been 249,996 homers hit during the regular season from 1876 to the end of play yesterday. ...

Italy's Eni SPA to acquire First Calgary Petroleum for $923 million

The Canadian Press - CALGARY - Italian integrated energy company Eni SPA has agreed to buy First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. (TSX:FCP) for $923 million, several years after the company first -...

Does Socialism Breed Laziness? Spain and the Problem of Post-Vacation Syndrome

It’s September and millions of unfortunate Spaniards, having just finished four full weeks of paid summer holidays, are confronting the unbearable trauma of heading back to work. And as happens every...

Rising health benefits costs slowing

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Health benefit costs will increase in 2009 by just under 6 percent. This would be a slightly slower rate compared with the past several years, according to Mercer, the benefits...

Mutual of Oh-My-Ha

Carlos Delgado slugged two home runs off Cole Hamels in the Sunday Night Game of the Week. There have now been 249,996 homers hit during the regular season from 1876 to the end of play yesterday. ...

Red Bull Soapbox Race 2008 Vancouver

Today I took my dad and sister out to this years Red Bull Soapbox Race in Kitsilano not knowing what to expect. Walking up Burrard street towards West 4th ave, you can hear and feel the...

University Presidents Call for a Lower Drinking Age

Recently, a group of college and university presidents have been exploring the issue of whether or not the drinking age should be lowered from 21 years of age. Many claim that the current age is...

Movie Review: McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Robert Altman's subversive western is examined almost forty years after its release. Perhaps it was the disillusionment with Vietnam, or the revolutionary assault of American society by its younger...