Current Recession Already One Of The Longest Ever

With the latest economic news showing that the nations economy shed over 531,000 jobs in just the month of November alone it would appear t...

Somali Pirates Get More Daring With Each Attack

A lot of people in the world were surprised to find out that piracy still existed when news came out of Africa that ships were being hijack...

The New Mars Rover Is Bigger And Better

The scientists at NASA are still gathering both data and images from the last two rovers that it launched to Mars years after they were exp...

Government Bailout Costing Taxpayers Trillions

With the decision just coming down today that the government has decided to rescue Citicorp with another 20 billion dollar handout in additi...

Poverty In America

It should come as no surprise to anyone that under President Bush poverty in the United States increased. According to The U.S. Department o...

The Monotracer: Coolest New Car On Earth

Finally some clever engineer came up with it. A vehicle that combines the features of both a motorcycle and a car. Called the Monotracer it...

Cell Phone Sales Exceed 1 Billion For First Time

It seems that people all around the world love to talk and talk and talk especially to people that they dont have right in front of them at...

Vatican Updates Seven Deadly Sins

In an attempt to keep up with modern times the vatican has updated its seven deadly sins with seven more modern ones it calls social sins. T...

Total U.S. War Dead And Wounded So Far

The war on terror has gone on now basically ever since we invaded Afganistan in October of 2001. It has cost the nation over 600 billion dol...

Flying Windmills May Point The way to Energy Future

There is an interesting attempt going on to try and make the idea of wind power actually generate enough energy to be useful. A company in c...

Buildings Being Built With Cement That Eats Smog

There is a new and interesting way of going about reducing smog and other pollutants in the air in Italy. They are using a cement that has b...

The Secret Service Just Became Much More Important

On November 4th there was a call from the public for big changes to occur in the direction that this country is going. So much so that the c...

First few years Will Likely Be Rough For Obama

It is undeniable that the euphoria that has arisen in the wake of President Elect Obama's victory on this past November 4th is Kennedy l...

Ten Interesting Facts About The World

This blogpost is just about ten interesting facts that i have come across over the last few months that i have been doing research for the a...

Reality Check: Edison Did Not Invent The Light Bulb

Can you believe that it has been over 130 years now and there are still people out there who think that Thomas Edison invented the light bul...

Black Church Burned After Election In Boston

Anybody who knows anything about the city of Boston will tell you that it is not the most racially tolerant place in the world and now comes...

Solar Panels Might Finally Become Viable--Finally!

It is common knowledge that a move to solar power and away from fossil fuels would be good for the planet but the trouble with it is that i...

Bionic Contact Lenses Are New And Super Cool

Like everything else in the universe even contact lenses are making a quantum leap technologically speaking into the future. A researcher n...

New Fingerprint Technology Will Solve More Crime

Imagine what law enforcement agencies would be able to do if they could still lift a fingerprint from a gun even if the prints have been tot...

An Old Idea Of Einstein's Being Looked At Again

Albert Einstein came up with a few good ideas in his life. Some of them are more famous than others and an old one that had until now been l...

Researchers Working On An Earth Friendly Fuel

Imagine being able to fill up your car gas tank with a fuel that had no carbon in it and thereby posed no threat to the enviornment. Well th...

Global Seed Vault Opens For Business

As the saying goes "if you build it they will come" and they have built it and it is up and running. What it is and what it is fo...

Lincoln-Kennedy Assassination Coincidences

It is not that unusual to have a coincidence or two occur between two events in life but the sheer number of them that exist between both Pr...

India Enters Space Race With Rocket Moon Launch

Along with the growing number of nations around the world that will be joining the club of countries with nuclear weapons and capabilities ...

God Bless The U.S.A. As They Say

Some people take it for granted in this country that you can say whatever you want to say, for the most part anyway without getting into any...

Study Says Panhandlers Do Better Than Workers

A new study that was recently undertaken in the city of Spokane, Washington indicates that being a panhandler may actually be a more lucrati...

Billionaire Nearly Loses A Billion Betting On Auto Stocks

For most people the name does not ring familiar to them like that of other billionaires like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates and he may not have...

What Really May Have Caused The Hindenburg Disaster

It is one of the most memorable disasters ever to have been captured on film. On May 6th, 1937 The great German airship Hindenburg was redu...

The Truth About Botox

We have all seen them on TV by now. The current batch of aging female celebrities mostly who all have that familiar swollen face botox look....

Florida Man Jailed For Neglecting His Front Lawn

Sometimes the neighbors that we end up stuck with can be the biggest problems that we face in life and civic associations can be funny thing...

Species Disappearing At An Excellerated Rate

It is no surprise to anyone that more and more of the world's animal species are going extint but they are doing so at a rate that is fa...

Election To Decide Future Of Supreme Court

The presidential election that is set to take place in just over 3 weeks from now will have a big impact not only on the direction that the...

Golden Gate Bridge To Get Suicide Net

On Friday October 10th Officials in charge of The Golden Gate Bridge In San Francisco voted overwhelmingly in a vote 14-1 to build a net on...

A Simple New Weapon In The Fight Against S.I.D.S.

Doctors are saying that there is a new way to fight the tragedy of S.I.D.S. (sudden Infant death syndrome) and the weapon that you need to f...

CEO Knocked Out After Announcing Bankruptcy

It seems that some people are getting a little bit punchy about the bad economy and the meltdown that is currently under way on wall street....

Sarah Palin --- Book Banner

Some people who never heard of Sarah Palin's name until a couple of months ago are now beginning to understand her a lot more than they...

Gun Crazy In The U.S.A.

The love affair that has been going on between Americans and their guns has been both a crazy and a long standing one. The United States by ...

Another Marine Rapes A Japanese Girl This Year

The young women of Okinawa and their families live with a special kind of fear due to the presence of U.S. servicemen there and rightly so. ...

Student Goes On Shooting Spree In Finland

We in the United States have had so many school shootings in our country by now that we are all numb to it and have accepted it as a new rea...

Free Gas For Politicians In California

While the driving public struggles with the brave new world of having to pay $3.50 - $4.00 a gallon for gas there is one segment of the popu...

Republicans Tear Down U.S. Economy Yet Again

If you have been listening to the news lately then you perhaps have some idea about the new economic crisis that is gripping the U.S. econom...

Controversy Over New Film And Child Rape Scene

A new film opened on friday September 18th in L.A. called "Hounddog" and the controversy that has followed it from its initial pre...

Mystery Of Stonehenge Possibly Revealed

For decades and in fact even centuries scientists and historians have been debating over what the famous site in England known as Stonehenge...

Beatle Denies Gay Rumors

In the nearly 50 years that the Beatles have been around there have been a million rumors about them. Some true but most were really just a ...

Marijuana Arrests Hit New High In U.S.

The number of people in the United States being arrested for possession of marijuana hit an all time high in 2007 and has continued a trend ...

Church Of England To Apologize To Charles Darwin

In an unusual move by the Church of England, or any other church for that matter, they are going to apologize to Charles Darwin for their in...

Teacher Who Lost Her Job Over Porn Past

Kind of an interesting scandal took place a little while ago in the town of Paducah, Kentucky. Some of the students who attended Reidland Hi...

Ford Wont Sell New 65 MPG Car In U.S. Market

In 2009 The Ford Motor Company is set to come out with a new car called the Ford Fiesta Econetic. It is a new modern, sleek looking car that...

Another Tainted Food Scandal Hitting China

It is beginning to get almost as common as a sunrise. You wake up and you start hearing about the latest scandal in China involving some man...

Civilian Deaths In Afganistan Down This Year

It seems that the United States military is finally starting to get the message about how counter productive it is to kill innocent civilian...

Catholic Priest Arrested For Dealing Drugs

The Holy Roman Catholic Church has long had its problems with priests that have engaged in behavior that has been less than perfect. We are ...

Automaker Plans New Car That Runs On Air

We all know that the use of oil and gas to run our cars is a luxury that the planet will soon no longer allow us to afford. In an attempt to...

Civilian Casualties In War Have Grown Over Time

In the 20th century war underwent a revolution. It was technological mostly and the effect of this change was that increasingly in war it wa...

Women In The Army Face Threats From Both Sides

You would think that it would be hard enough to be a soldier in a war zone who has to worry about the enemy striking but if you are a woman ...

Solar Powered Rotating Skyscrapers Coming Soon

Usually the big deal when a new tall building is being built is how tall its going to be but in the case of the "Dynamic Tower" it...

Large Piece Of Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Away

Scientists and climatologists initially predicted that the effects of global warming were not going to seriously cause problems for the plan...

Famous Actor Sues Over Movie Role Royalties

Actor Tommy Lee Jones has decided to sue Paramount Pictures and the Producers of The Film "No Country for Old Men" for $10 Million...

Highest Paid Yakity -Yaks On TV

The old saying goes that talk is cheap but not if you are one of the following people on this list. Forbes magazine has put out a list of th...

Teen Suicides Spike In U.S. In Last Few Years

Suicides among teenagers in the U.S. have been stedily declining since the mid 1990's but in the last few years there has been a spike a...

World's Latest Tallest Building Now Rising In Dubai

If you think that you might know where the world's tallest building is you may in fact know where it is for the time being but if you b...

Sony Recalls 450,000 Laptops Due To Burn Hazard

On september 4th The Sony Corporation of japan announced that it is recalling nearly 450,000 of its Vaio-Tz series laptops worldwide in a re...

Extreme Makeover Rebuilt House In Foreclosure

If you have ever seen the Show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition then you know that behind the efforts of the show is a well intentioned motive...

V.P. Nominee Sarah Palin's Teen Troubles

Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been having her troubles this last week with the revalations about her teen daughter Br...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Rings False Alarm

If you spent the last few days before hurricane Gustav made land listening to New orleans mayor Ray Nagin you would have thought that the wo...

Your Cellphone, Bacteria, And You

Cellphones these days are everywhere. It is estimated that over 200 million people in the United States own one and use one on an everyday b...

Detroit Mayor Still Refuses To Resign Over Sex Scandal

If you think that you are under fire in your day to day life consider what Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is going through these days but al...

Hiv in Nyc Spreading 3x Faster Than In rest Of U.S.

In the ongoing battle to stop and prevent the spread of HIV and aids New York City has historically been the epicenter of the fight in the U...

Gender Gaps In The U.S.A.

An interesting development has been unfolding with regard to the widening gap between available single men and women in the United States in...