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General Stanley McChrystal, who commands 142,000 troops in Afghanistan from the U.S. and 45 partner nations, has offered his resignation to Barack Obama. The reason for the departure is a profile of the general in Rolling Stone which shows the general as critical of the handling of the Afghanistan war. Bloobmerg reports: "The comments by McChrystal and aides reported in Rolling Stone magazine threaten to fracture a unified front that President Barack Obama has sought to build for the war and distract efforts to hold together an international coalition doing the fighting. Obama reacted with anger upon reading the article,...

There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.” FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks. The commissioner, a 2006 President Bush appointee, told...

Not a day goes by without a major European or US bank announcing some kind of financial complication or the other. While much of the problem lies with exposures to the US subprime market, it is perhaps no exaggeration to point out that when banks cannot or will not lend to one another, the global financial system is for all intent and purposes broken. There are multiple facets of this problem, as I described in recent articles: first, [1] the penchant of Asian countries to preserve fixed currency values against the US dollar, which has caused the massive and unnecessary...

Let me cover the big picture. I do think we're approaching the end of the world as we know it…I think there is such thing as the business cycle. It exists. And we've had the longest expansion - and the strongest expansion - in the world history. But we're at the end of a 25-year boom. It's gone on more than a full generation now. And I'll tell you how it's going to end: It's going to end with a depression, and not just a depression; not just another Great Depression; it's going to be the Greater Depression. What's a...

The summer wind, came blowin in - from across the sea It lingered there, so warm and fair - to walk with me All summer long, we sang a song - and strolled on golden sand Two sweethearts, and the summer wind Like painted kites, those days and nights - went flyin by The world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky Then softer than, a piper man - one day it called to you And I lost you, to the summer wind The autumn wind, and the winter wind - have come and gone And still the days,...

On April 18, 1983, someone drove a van packed with explosives into the United States embassy in Beirut, demolishing it and killing 63 people. Six months later, 241 Marines and soldiers were killed when their Beirut barracks were torn apart by a truck carrying 12,000 pounds of dynamite, which detonated the largest nonnuclear explosion since World War II. The twin suicide bombings shocked and intrigued Robert Baer, who at the time was stationed in Lebanon as a Central Intelligence Agency officer and knew several agency employees who had died in the embassy. He became preoccupied with who had plotted the...

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<p>Based on the weather forecast, hunters should have good to excellent conditions in most of Michigan for the first three days of the firearms deer season.</p> <p>From Ironwood to Monroe, the forecast calls for cool temperatures and overcast skies when the 16-day season opens a half-hour before dawn Friday. Those conditions tend to make deer leave their hiding places and move about during daylight.</p>

<p>Many black students who will graduate from Michigan State University next month are excited about MSU's first Black Celebratory, an optional ceremony that will honor them for earning a degree.</p> <p>But the event has not left everyone feeling festive. Critics say the celebratory is unfair and promotes separatism.</p>

Sorry for no Article, but I was wondering if there is anyone out there that can give me advise as to why type of deer hunting rifle I should buy for hunting in Michigan. I plan on hunting mostly deer but would like to eventually hunt other big game animals.