Today’s increase was different, since the price skyrocketed fully 30% in one day, something that hasn’t happened for decades
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Did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just Blink?
Some members of the Egyptian parliament met briefly on Tuesday, in defiance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and in accordance with […]
Video on Syrian Gov’t Torture Centers (Human Rights Watch)
Syria’s torture centers, as revealed by Human Rights Watch:
Infosys Building planned for Kuwait
States with Highest Religiosity most Opposed to Obamacare
I once read an article in a sociology of religion journal. Sociologists placed a person who seemed to have fallen off his bike, and was […]
Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists
The reaction to Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s call to reinstate the dissolved parliament was largely negative on Monday and Tuesday morning, except among supporters of […]
Dear Rick Perry: Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)
States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare
[Some responses to this rather damning series have suggested that minority health statistics skew the averages. So in this map, we’ll just look at the […]
Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament
Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi tried to steal third base on Sunday, announcing that he was calling back into session the dissolved Egyptian parliament. It would […]
Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day
Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]
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