The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same In Russia
If there was an award for despicable legacies Joseph Stalin would rank right up there with Hitler and Mao for the men with the most blood on their hands. By conservative estimates the man who led the Soviet Union for 30 years until his death in 1953, was responsible for killing some 20 million people, most of them his own citizens.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father of a Marine who died in Iraq and the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
The court ...
Hey Monica! Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
Ex-councilwoman tries to withdraw guilty plea, then vows appeal
Detroit -- Monica Conyers, who plunged her sentencing hearing into controversy Wednesday, has slim hopes of successfully appealing her 37-month prison ...
More than 120 fighters from the anti-government Gulbuddin faction of Hezb-i-Islami have surrendered to local authorities in Baghlan after a weekend of fighting with the Taliban that left 60 insurgents and 20 civilians dead.
"Since Sunday 120 fighters including 70 armed ...
Alexander Graham Bell Invents The Telephone
by Marc Stockwell-Moniz Chandlers Watch.com
This week, one-hundred and thirty-four years ago in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention--the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville ...









