121 COUNTRIES RANKED FOR FIRST TIME May 30, 2007: The first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness is launched today. The Global Peace Index studied 121 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe and its publication comes just a week before the leaders of the world’s richest countries gather for the G8 summit [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 30, 2007
KY Creation Museum
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AP 5/29/07 PETERSBURG, Ky. — A museum that tells the Bible’s version of Earth’s history _ that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago _ attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied outside.
The dozens of demonstrators argued Monday that the Creation Museum’s central tenets conflict with [...]
May 27, 2007
MEMORIAL DAY
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Associated Press | May 26, 2007 06:47 PM In the period from Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 980 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq, compared to 807 deaths in the previous year. And with the Baghdad security operation now 3 1/2 months old, even President Bush has predicted a difficult summer for U.S. forces. [...]
May 16, 2007
FAREWELL FALWELL
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped [...]
May 8, 2007
Hamas Mickey Mouse
DIAA HADID | AP | May 8, 2007 02:26 PM EST
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas militants have enlisted the iconic Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic dominion and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience _ little kids.
A giant black-and-white rodent _ named “Farfour,” or “butterfly,” but unmistakably a Mickey ripoff _ does his high-pitched preaching [...]
