Susan Boyle's worldwide fame is a triumph for all those who have ever been judged by appearances. I know those sneers. I've heard them too.
By raising this Susan up, we will forgive ourselves for grinding every other Susan into the dust. It will be a very partial and poisoned redemption. Because Britain's Got Malice. Sing, Susan, sing - to an ugly crowd that doesn't deserve you.
Susan Boyle's triumph on Britain's Got Talent has led Elaine Paige to suggest a collaboration
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.
You don't need your own private Idaho to grow potatoes. Greg Lutovsky, who has been growing potatoes as a business since 1993, says you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 square feet. All it takes is some lumber, seed potatoes and careful attention to watering.
Bob Dylan recognizes a story-worthy character when he sees one, and he certainly sees one in Barack Obama, judging by his description of the president in an interview with the U.K.'s Times Online.
Absent minders: Abandoned on a press trip in Afghanistan. The US and the rest of NATO keep telling us how the security situation has improved. But they are unwilling to practice the confidence they preach.
Maybe they could save costs by printing the paper on their stock certificates.
I've been bumped up to first class. Suddenly it doesn't matter if we crash
Millions of new unsold cars are parked in ports and factories. These 10 pix show the depth of car maker's problems better than any chart. Check the predictions at page bottom.
Brand new professional simulation of the flight of US Airways Flight 1549 that ditched in the Hudson River. It is precision radar based with data displayed, from www.passur.com
Gerry Rafferty, the singer behind the 1978 hit Baker Street, has been missing for nearly six months after vanishing from a London hospital where he was being treated for liver failure.
Imagine this: community organizers with mesmerizing rhetoric and calls for change, remove the privileged from power. Heavy government debt. makes the economy tank. So they print money as a stimulus package!
A succession of minority governments has left our foreign policy in a shambles and our foreign service paralyzed. On trade, on global warming, on peace in the Middle East, on the emerging Third World powers - on anything that matters, Canada has nothing to say.
Bump keys are a magic wand to open almost - any - lock. They are cheap, readily available, fast and easy to use. If someone robs your house using a bump key, you may have trouble making an insurance claim.
The U.S. Senate passed an $838 billion economic stimulus package Tuesday that includes $1.3 billion for NASA - more than double the amount the House approved Jan. 28 for the U.S. space agency in its version of the bill.
A treasure hunter who claims to have found a buried ship filled with treasure using Google Earth, the popular satellite imaging service, is fighting a legal battle to excavate the site.
The roll-out of stimulus packages and the clean-up of banks must be accelerated, the head of the International Monetary Fund says, urging action to avert "a repeat of the Great Depression".
Bruce Springsteen, who turns 60 this September, released a new album and performed at the SuperBowl. Whatever happened to Live Fast, Die Young? Someone ask Sid Vicious. Even Johnny Rotten turned 53 on January 31.
North Korean officials Monday pledged to retain their nuclear arsenal until the United States removed "nuclear threats" against it.
Canada's economy shrank more than expected in November as businesses across most sectors clipped back production, suggesting the recession that started in the fourth-quarter is steeper than expected.
It seems timely to resurrect this Americanism from the 1930s. Some are bandits, but there are also principled people in banking too.
Based on nearing's seed on $1.144 Quadrillion in Derivatives, I've made an online slide show with music for folks to see the size of US debt against the Derivative Debt. Now being Featured on slideshare.net's homepage.
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On December 31st, 2008, Virgin Galactic signed a 20 year lease agreement with the State of New Mexico.
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's Inauguration Day address—a speech that many believed would jumpstart the healing process of an ailing nation, foster hope and goodwill across the world, and serve as the ultimate stamp on the Democrat's historic win—was ruined Tuesday by …
The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece.
Book a train from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, and you're in for a ride that takes 17 hours, 35 minutes.
How can anyone in their right mind possibly take Fox seriously?
unbelievable
The men remember the same things: blood on the walls, bits of lip or tongue on the pillow, the smell of urine and whiskey, the way the bed springs sang with each blow. The way they cried out for Jesus or mama. The grinding of the old fan that muffled their cries.
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