by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
What does electricity, academia, and Libya all have in common?Besides the fact that the 42-year tyranny of Moammar Gadhafi has come to end with sparks flying and the wagging heads of assent from universities around the world, there is the recent installation by the...
by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown needs as much bipartisanship as possible to fit in without getting put on in 2012.Senator Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat after the Lion of the Senate's passing from brain cancer. The People of Massachusetts gave their seat to a...
by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
"Stocks slumped for the second day in a row as a plan for Greece to hold a referendum on the terms of its financial rescue threatened to scuttle Europe's grand bailout plan."Like some ancient tragedy right from the pen of Sophocles, the Greeks are on the...
by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
Will the Spirit of William Wallace be summoned once again?Or should one say, MacBeth?For the first metaphor to have any salience, one would have to assume that the Scottish are up in arms for independence, to the point of a military venture.For the second parallel to...
by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
No, British Prime Minister is not facing a vote of no-confidence, although his back-bench MPs risked their political careers making known their outrage:They want the UK out of the Eurozone.With the looming collapse threatening the Common Market, the British public are...
by altha-admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles
Mayor Villaraigosa ought to take a hint from former Mayor Richard Riordan: Let the City of Los Angeles file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.By empowering a federal judge to shred current employee contracts and permit the city to redraw its pension outlays, the City would...
