Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC, after declaring himself dictator of Rome for life. Clark, et al, are holding a party tomorrow to make John Klimm dictator of Barnstable for the rest of his life.  We don't need to assassinate Klimm, but we can be just as effective ...

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/2227 “The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, the Great Calamity – refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after...

A lively discussion has been taking place among commenters on Robert Reich's blog. We are fortunate to have there an international array of people who are in a position to do some comparative analyses among different countries. In particular we are fortunate to have Frank Thomas, an American exp...

Comments by David G. Littman: NGO Representative to the UN in Geneva of the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ): As Jihad Watch has already posted disturbing news that was sent out on the wires last night by canadacom -- and picked up today by the...

Stanford medical students Mitchell Lunn, Eric Tran, William White Jr., Juno Obedin-Maliver, Elizabeth Goldsmith and Leslie Stewart. STANFORD, Calif. - Every time he goes to a new doctor, Mitchell Lunn faces the question anew: Should he tell his doctor he's gay? "The question always comes up," said L...

1497 Nicolaus Copernicus first begins to record his astronomical observations. 1611 Dutch astronomer Johannes Fabricius becomes the first person to observe sunspots as he observes the rising sun through his telescope. Observing the Sun becomes painful, so Fabricius and his father will soon switch to...

It was a great honor to be invited to the U.S. Capitol on February 26th for a screening of Fitna sponsored by Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), the Center for Security Policy, and the International Free Press Society. The honor was only increased by my discovery the next day that at the same time we were wat...

Strengths and weaknesses in new report on the lack of Recent Global Warming There is an interesting article on at MSNBC from the Discovery Channel titled: "Warming might be on hold, study finds Authors sense hibernation, but warn of `explosive' rise later" by Michael Reilly. This article finally (al...

Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of...

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go. ---Raiders of the Lost Ark but in Riverside, this statement might have an entirely different meaning. The Riverside Police Department hosted its Community/Police Summit for the Neighborhood Policing Center eastern area at the expansive Orange Terrace Center ...