After a year-long campaign, a Danish pressure group, the Topless Front, successfully forced lawmakers in Copenhagen to allow women to go topless in public pools. The leader of the group, Astrid Vang, spearheaded the change in nudity laws, declaring, “We women would like to decide by ourselves when our breasts should be sexual and when … Continue reading Are Americans Too Prudish?
Worldwide food costs rose 23 per cent between 2006 and 2007. Many signs suggest that the era of cheap food is over. Josetta Sheeran, director of the World Food Programme calls it “the new face of hunger”. World countdown to crop catastrophe Continue reading World countdown to crop catastrophe
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. The real harm Hillary Clinton inflicted on Bosnia. By Christopher Hitchens Continue reading The real harm Hillary Clinton inflicted on Bosnia. By Christopher Hitchens
Zimbabwe could be on the brink of releasing dictator Robert Mugabe from the presidency after 28 years in power. Al Jazeera, The New York Times, the BBC and Time Magazine are all speculating that after thwarting election results he didn’t like for the last 20 years, Mugabe may not have the will to fight his … Continue reading Last of the big men floored?
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