Defense Secretary Robert Gates was unsuccessful in swaying the Associated Press from distributing a graphic photograph showing the final moments of Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard’s life after the marine had been mortally wounded in Afghanistan. The photo shows the 21-year-old being helped by...
Tropical Storm Ketsana is hammering the Phillipines with more rain than it can possibly handle. Dumping as much as a months worth of rain all over the Phillipines creating the worst flooding in almost 50 years. "More than a month's worth of rain fell in just 12 hours Saturday as Tropical Storm...
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and considered the last Founding Father of America from the Virginia Dynasty and Republican generation. Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Spence Monroe, a planter and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones, an...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it” - William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778. Our nations’ leaders are supposed to be paragons of virtue and strength, ever striving to better the populace’s lot in life and aid their country’s economic,...
Today is President Barack Obama’s forty-eighth birthday. How does he plan to celebrate? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released the following statement giving the run-down of Obama’s scheduled birthday activities: In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the...
Nuclear Summit warns Iran's recipe for atomic ingredients will be complete within a year. Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, delivered this news to a Senate Panel Wednesday. Burgess maintains that Iran could build one nuclear bomb within a year if...
President Obama versus Sarah Palin on the nuclear issue took an interesting direction. Obama released a new nuclear policy early this week which disarms the United States of the use of nuclear weapons against countries without nuclear capabilities if they comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on 26 October 1947. She is the wife of former United States of America Bill Clinton and one of the most prominent women in American politics. She grew up in Illinois as the eldest and only daughter of middle class, conservative Methodist parents with two younger...
James Madison, Jr. was the fourth President of the United States, an American politician, and political philosopher who contributed as a Founding Father during the late 1700s. Madison was born to Colonel James Madison, Sr. and Eleanor Rose Conway on March 16, 1751 in Orange County, Virginia. As...
