Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble." ...more

October 30, 2009

A man passing himself off as the drummer for the band Foreigner stole the Corvette of a woman he befriended Monday night, then crashed it and ran, Clearwater police say. ...more

February 10, 2009

Every month in Alternative Press magazine, the column "I Don't Know, Ask That Guy" skewers some band that had the temerity to exist before Weezer. ...more

January 16, 2009

Twice a week, on average, in a nondescript building by the railroad tracks, a foreigner comes to die. ...more

December 14, 2008

I was pleased to read the article about bully laws being created to protect school children. The pro-Amendment 2 letters recently printed express much concern for the welfare of children but they are overlooking the fact that we are all children. ...more

November 2, 2008

A leading Human Rights Watch monitor who was abruptly put on the first plane leaving Venezuela early Friday said his expulsion shows the intolerance of President Hugo Chavez's government to criticism. ...more

September 20, 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Video recorded during the rescue of 15 hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying tears of joy after they are aloft and realize they are free. ...more

July 4, 2008

A father seeks forgiveness for what so many men regret, missing key moments in his children's lives because he was too busy, too far away. ...more

June 16, 2008

The plight of Mr. Anaya came to light in your paper over the last weekend. He was born in Texas in 1956 and promptly his parents were given deportation orders, it stated. He spent the next and first (15) fifteen years of his life in Mexico. This makes him a citizen of Mexico! He claims an American citizenship due only to his birth in Texas. In 1866, Sen. Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating: "Every person born within the limits of the US, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the US. This will not include persons born in the US who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors of foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the US." This understanding was reaffirmed by Sen. Edward Cowan, who stated: "(A foreigner in the US) has a right to the protection of the laws; but he is not a citizen in the ordinary since of the word." ...more

May 23, 2008

When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration's plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom. ...more

May 12, 2008