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Posted on November 16, 2011 by Steve Milloy | 13 Comments “I think it’s good for the world” — spoken like a true 12-year old. Greenwire reports,President Obama yesterday vowed to keep pursuing...

Russia’s military chief warns that heightened risks of conflict near borders may turn nuclear MOSCOW — Russia is facing a heightened risk of being drawn into conflicts at its borders that have the potential of turning nuclear, the nation’s top military officer said Thursday...

Toronto students will now be able to follow an Africentric curriculum from kindergarten until graduation after the Toronto District School Board voted Wednesday night to establish an Africentric high school. Debate over the school raged for more than an hour as trustee after trustee got to...

Tea Party Group Presents Its Own Debt Commission Report As the Congressional committee charged with reining in the deficit nears its deadline for coming up with a way to cut it by at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years, the Tea Party — or at least, a small group aiming to represent the Tea...

There's too much of this going on. A six-year-old girl is in critical condition after falling from a sixth-floor balcony in Scarborough early Thursday morning. It happened around 4:30 a.m. at an apartment building on Midland Avenue, near Eglinton. Paramedics say the child was breathing, but...

Several websites belonging to the government of Syria, as well as media companies sympathetic to the Syrian government and the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, are currently being hosted on servers based in Canada, according to a new report from Canadian researchers at The Citizen...

F-bombs mark Winnipeg MP's Twitter account Outspoken Winnipeg MP Pat Martin appears to have lost his cool on Twitter, dropping a few F-bombs in the process. A posting on his Twitter account Wednesday night reads: "This is a...

It's not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston's Hollings Cancer Center. For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good cheer and snacks to patients sitting through chemotherapy treatments. The 67-year-old...

Update Nov. 16, 4:10 p.m.: The Benetton has dropped the image of the Pope kissing an Imam from the campaign after complaints. Benetton returns to its controversial marketing roots with a new campaign that features President Obama and other world leaders engaging in a kiss. In two separate...

Or at least are told they have a disorder and have to take this pill or that. Either way, pretty sad. Medications to treat mental health disorders is soaring among U.S. adults, according to data released Wednesday by Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefit manager. Twenty percent of...

Occupy Space. Here's one way the government is creating jobs: NASA is hiring astronauts. They have even posted the position via one of the country's largest job clearinghouses and are accepting applications and resumes online. If you are thinking of polishing up your curriculum vitae and...

Harnessing solar power, something Solyndra is not familiar with. :lol: Melting steel with sunlight, James Mays big ideas - YouTube

HASTINGS, Minn. — An 11-year-old boy who said he was fed up with marijuana smoke in his house took pictures of the drug which led to a raid by authorities and sent his mother and stepfather to jail in Dakota County. Drug agents served a search warrant on the house in Ravenna Township near...

These know-it-alls are an embarrassment. After several “serious incidents” where people were “almost struck” by flying balls, and one person was tragically bonked on the head, a Toronto elementary school has cracked down. In the name of safety, children are no longer allowed to bring...

$$$$ Taking the provincial portion of the HST off home heating is not a “smart” or “strategic” idea, according to Premier Dalton McGuinty. Speaking in Brampton Wednesday morning, McGuinty said he’d rather the New Democrats and the Progressive Conservatives joined the Liberals in...

Preaching restraint and reform, Premier Dalton McGuinty is warning that Ontario’s new minority government will have to do more with less. “We’re living in times that call for greater restraint. Families have now begun to borrow...

A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which sorta looks like a giant LEGO, is set to become Europe's largest renewable energy power plant. When it's all said and done, the power plant will supply...

LAS VEGAS — For much of the presidential election of 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign was Emma Guerrero’s life. She was one of a dozen volunteers who showed up at an Obama campaign office here every night, taking time from her studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to be part of what...

Art schmart. Likely described it as understated and minimalist carrying mournful notes...or some such sh!t. :lol: This week, auction house Christie’s sold the above photo by Andreas Gursky for $4.3 million, setting the record for all-time most expensive photo (the previous record was set...

Yeah, the SSC and all that but this is still pretty cool: Replay XD1080 - 462 in the Speed Demon - YouTube Story: Driving At 462 MPH Looks Ludicrous From Any Angle The good old days: Thrust SSC sonic boom! The fastest land vehicle - YouTube