Running an army is kind of like running a day care, only instead of rattles, the children have bombs and guns. Hey, it may not be easy to win a war, but we should at least expect military leaders to be more adept than some kid playing Starcraft.
Kara DioGuardi's memoir, entitled A Helluva High Note, has been released. The former American Idol judge details a behind the scene glimpse into her past, including the inner workings of the hit FOX show as a former judge and traumatic experiences with sexual abuse. In the memoir, released...
Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, following an extensive, undercover U.S. investigation. President Barack Obama addressed the nation late Sunday, May 1, 2011, and declared "Justice has been done." Details of Osama Bin Laden's death have not been fully released. Reports indicate Bin Laden...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, humanitarian, activist, and leader of the African American civil rights movement. King is a prominent figure in American history and iconic for his words and actions in promoting civil rights within the United States and in many other countries....
CBS news was first to report results from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finding that 35% of women have an abortion by age 45. The Atlanta based agency and the Alan Guttmacher Institute compiled statistics based upon information since the early 1980s. Researchers estimate...
An arbitration hearing is an alternative and less formal process that aims to settle disputes between two individuals, conflicting groups and companies. The arbitrator is the person in authority that takes charge of this type of hearing. The parties involved normally choose this form of settlement...
A banana spider is one of the most common names of two species of spiders found in the Americas, namely, the nephilaclayipes found in North America and the phoneutria found in Central and South America. Of the two species, the phoneutria is considered deadly. The South American banana spider is...
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), also known as Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, refers to a group of medical interventions that are used to deal with specific medical emergencies. It is often used in reference to emergency treatment for heart attack (cardiac arrest), but is also used...
OPEC is the acronym for the “Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries”. It was established in 1960 with the mission and vision of unifying the world’s biggest oil producers in the midst of an oil crisis. At the time, Western oil companies were bullying countries to lower their oil prices....
Public StoningIranian courts still order public stonings, and those sentenced are often severely whipped before they are stoned. Women are buried up to their necks before a stoning. If convicted of adultery, Iranian law requires the stones not be too big or too small so that the probable death is...
