Daily Archives: 2:05 AM
On Constitution Day, tea party and foes duel over our founding document
Not in a year when Michele Bachmann is trying to keep within an elbow’s length of Rick Perry in the Republican presidential race, both standing for limited government…. Read more
Schools prevented from becoming academies by bank fears over PFI deals
Michael Gove may have to rewrite legislation for his education flagship policy after 16 schools have their plans put on hold The government’s flagship programme to convert hundreds… Read more
Private schools may shut as parents turn to state sector
Holidays are cancelled and second homes sold to pay fees at institutions with uncertain futures The recession is making almost a third of private school parents rethink plans… Read more
Obama Takes Class Warfare To The Next Level
….With The “Buffet Rule” And A New “Millionaire Tax”: Is A Market Selloff Imminent? In his increasingly desperate attempts to pander to a population that has by now entirely given… Read more
Footage of torture shocks Syrian teacher’s colleagues in Riyadh
RIYADH: The teachers and students of a private school in the east of Riyadh have mourned the death of a Syrian teacher they watched being tortured on YouTube,… Read more
Online ‘hate’ campaign targets Christian sites
A formal investigation of several Christian organizations has been launched by PayPal, the huge money-transfer company, because of an online campaign of “hate” against them by homosexuals, according to one… Read more
McGuinty doubles down on the green-jobs money pit
As we all know, Ontario is struggling to find new jobs for displaced industrial workers. I propose we put those people to work in the promising new market… Read more
Hawking Centre aims to redefine physics
Leaning forward in a swivel chair, his boyish bowl-cut silhouetted against the floor-to-ceiling windows of his sparsely modern office, Latham Boyle, a cosmologist, suddenly stopped talking about cosmology…. Read more
An audience with Koko the ‘talking’ gorilla
She knows more than 2,000 words, has friends in high places and loves cats and old films. But in her 40th year, Koko the ‘talking’ gorilla seeks a… Read more
Otto Perez the profile: by his actions he shall be known
by Enrique Naveda – Guatemala City. Four years ago, on September 28, 2007, a group of journalists from El Periódico, for which I then worked, had breakfast with… Read more
