I've been carrying Ana Egge's Road to My Love album around with me for a couple of months now. Her enticing voice draws me right into her songs, which are often soft-spoken and beautifully vivid. So whenever I just need to chill out, this is the album I've been reaching for -- and it's...
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Carrie Underwood and hockey player Mike Fisher are now married, if you believe the tweet of an agent from Uptown Sports Management, the Canadian company that represents Fisher. So congrats to Mr. & Mrs. Mike Fisher. They are probably in their love bubble now in Greensboro, Ga., giggling over guests forcing them to kiss...
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Meal discussions? Please. As if two lovebirds like Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher would postpone a wedding because they couldn't agree on the meal at the reception? According to Mike Fisher's agent, those rumors are simply not true. The agent, Todd Reynolds, told the Toronto Sun, "There's nothing to it. I spoke to Mike....
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I'm still not quite sure how you pronounce a stylized name with a dollar sign in it. And, I'm still not totally sold on Ke$ha's big electro-pop-dance hits like "Tik Tok" (although I do kind of dig the line about "before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack"). But you know...
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Commenters from my previous post have asked for more substantive arguments against the gold standard. As I understand it, the contention of advocates is that the gold standard is necessary because people lack confidence in the worth of fiat money. It seems to me that every single time an American accepts a US dollar...
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This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Just looking at the photo gives me vertigo.
A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of underground soil by water. Usually, it happens when the substrate is formed by limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds or any other rock that...
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Gold did its contrarian job in my model exchange-traded fund portfolio in May. Its modest gain, with help from bonds, trimmed the portfolio's overall loss to 6.1%, a quarter less than the 8.2% tumble experienced by the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Also in May, the stock market corrected violently, finishing down 10.5% from its...
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Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife
Writing for the Spectator, Melanie Phillips exhorts ,
And now we can see that the real purpose of this invasion -- backed by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a radical Islamic organization outlawed by Israel in 2008 for allegedly serving as a major component in Hamas’ global fund-raising machine...
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Silent acceptance of two ongoing wars--both unnecessary and unjust--has swept across the nation rendering the continual deaths of individuals in combat zones and destruction of families in residential zones as boring, tiresome routines of reality in a country too anxious over economic problems to care.
President Obama shows no signs of seriously committing to any...
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from youtube.com posted with vodpod
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