Edward M. Kennedy's death marks the end not just of a political dynasty, but of America’s Camelot myth. But though the senator never reached his Holy Grail — universal health care — he still attained personal redemption and respect.
Legendary figures sometimes find a few tall tales seeping into their obits when they die. Their legendary status invites it.
Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black lists, suspicion and smear, Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer.
One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines, a poll showed Wednesday.
For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew: links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association. Obama and his campaign reacted strongly this week when a photo of him in Kenyan tribal garb began spreading on the Internet.
Homeowners started losing hold of their homes years before spiking foreclosures and the housing slump slammed the economy.
In attempting to understand the meaning of the birth stories, we ask some familiar questions. Who wrote the material? When did he write it? Why did he write it? For whom was he writing? What literary device was the author using?
Recently, I met some jihadis who have been in the business of holy war since the 1990s. I was surprised to hear that even though they were in support of the jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir, they were opposed to the idea of destabilising Pakistan itself.
There was a fine article about short sales in the Scottsdale and Phoenix Arizona market today. Since we, The Urban Team, are considered short sale specialists we really liked some truths about short sales revealed.
Archaeologists shed new light on the inspiration for the Greek myth. Steve Connor reports
Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
So did you hear? You can protect yourself from swine flu by putting bowls of cut-up onions in every room of your house.
I dreamed I walked in Avalon, But all the streets were bare As faded scenes in tapestries Worn thin from time and care While sunlight glanced in every room But found no heroes there.
A mythical Swedish town where men are barred from entering and women turn to homosexuality has piqued the interest of several Chinese media outlets.
They don't say the Holocaust didn't happen; they are suggesting something more complex than that. That last quote in particular suggests that Ahmadinejad is using the word "myth" in its correct, technical sense.
While some British Nationalist Party policies seem extreme to many, they seem to have pinpointed one facet of near-term fallout from populist policies. While expressed with some of the unqualified hyperbole characteristic of political rhetoric, their objection to premature …
In the White House's latest online video to debunk so-called myths about health care reform, Vice President Joe Biden introduces features that attempt to make the White House's online health care campaign more interactive.
Findings from a new national survey of Americans by researchers from Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics says that Americans do believe the "myths" about health care reform, confirming th …
The Lies (3 of 5): 1) Stephen Hawking (who has Lou Gehrig's disease) and U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy (who has brain cancer) would not receive treatment in Britain, which has a government-run health-care system.
The Creation Museum opened in 2007 outside Petersburg to raucous laughter from actual scientists. According to AiG's calculations, the ark was 510 feet long, 51 feet high and 85 feet wide.
1. Wisdom Teeth 2. Appendix 3. Coccyx (Tailbone, for the home-schooled) 4. Body hair
In this land of endless history and ethereal beauty, several thousand Jewish settlers gathered on a dozen West Bank hills with makeshift huts and Israeli flags over several days this week to mark an invented anniversary and defy the American president, conveying to his aides vis …
THE mysterious big cats of legend are on the prowl once more. A military policeman yesterday spoke of his shock after capturing what appears to be dramatic footage of a big cat prowling close to a Scottish naval base.
Nonetheless, the sight of Elijah reading the Bible that morning did leave me with an uneasy feeling. Of course it was wonderful to see him reading. And the Bible is, in any case, a seminal world-historical text: familiarity with it is an essential form of cultural knowledge.
My goodness, the subject of free speech elicits a lot of strong feelings. It is of course absolutely vital for different points of view to find their way to the public forum.
When I read this article I saw the paralell between the Climate Change deniers and it struck me that the same thing is happening with climate science. We are in for a Lethal future if the deniers influence our decisions.
The growing scientific understanding of the earth's electromagnetic environment has made it possible to recognise an important substratum of auroral observations in the mythological system of virtually every known culture.
Talking Points Memo, the website where many on the Left get their marching orders from, put on their website an article demanding that deniers of AGW be either jailed or executed. So much for free and open debate.
"This is terrorism we're dealing with. We can't afford to let ourselves be distracted by spin. It's time to set the record straight with the facts.
The shibboleth that large banks (and other mega-corporations) are somehow "too big to fail" has been turned on its ear these past ten months.
The greatest myth pervading current intelligent thought is that women in Britain are now doing well; that they could not have it better. After all, they are getting more qualifications, more training, even more access to employment and, above all, getting the breaks in management.