December 1, 2012Susan Rice's 'worst week' could derail Secretary of State bid (via The Christian Science Monitor) Should President Obama nominate Susan Rice to be the next Secretary of State – and her loyal boss may have been pushed into doing so

December 1, 2012USS Enterprise (CVN 65). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman) Setting aside for now the question, or the argument, of whether we have not enough or too many bayonets, horses and aircraft carriers, and in

December 1, 2012Egypt’s Islamists rally for Morsi as rifts widen (via AFP) Hundreds of thousands of Islamists rallied on Saturday in support of President Mohamed Morsi’s new expanded powers and the drafting of a contested charter, highlighting Egypt’s widening polarisation. The demonstration

December 1, 2012NFL Chiefs player Belcher dead in stadium suicide (via AFP) Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot himself at the NFL team’s Arrowhead Stadium Saturday after apparently shooting and killing his girlfriend, police said. Kansas City Police Captain David

December 1, 2012American disarray is becoming Biblical in the “confusion of tongues” at the fiscal cliff. The builders of the nation’s future seem cursed by inability to find a common language. Boehner’s gang rejects the President’s proposal as “completely unbalanced and unreasonable”

November 30, 2012World’s Polar Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster And Faster, Research Confirms (via Planetsave) The two most massive ice sheets in the world have been losing ice faster and faster over the past ten years, leaving some uncertainty about how quickly

November 30, 2012US criticizes Israeli plans to build new settler homes (via AFP) The United States denounced Israeli plans for new settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank in the wake of a historic UN vote to upgrade Palestine’s diplomatic status,