For other liveblogging, see The Muqata . The US backed the Egyptian ceasefire proposal, which involves truce talks on long-term border arrangements and an end to the “blockade” of Gaza. The US supports the proposal as long as the ceasefire will be “durable and sustainable,” a...

Colorado Media Matters: KHOW guest host Beauprez and Post's Haley misled about DPS performance under Senate appointee Bennet No happy trails for WCCO's Malmberg Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - ... Trails,'" he said, reprising how he departed for WCCO from his own nationally syndicated radio...

What’s your travel forecast for 2009? This is the question I put to nine leading experts in the travel world : MICHELLE PELUSO, CEO Travelocity AUDREY HENDLEY, Vice President of Marketing for American Express Travel. CHRIS MCGINNIS, Editor, Expedia Travel Trendwatch GEORGE BUTTERFIELD, CEO Butterf...

In the middle-ages, Christians in Europe routinely accused Jews of killing Christian children in order to use their blood to bake the Passover matzo. This was a Blood Libel. And it usually resulted in pogroms where entire Jewish communities were given the choice of converting or having their throats...

A wiseman sketches his vision for the coming year. This essay was originally posted on December 28th, 2008. Forecast for 2009 James Howard Kunstler There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one...

How religious beliefs can get you killed. There's a story I read in college in a chronicle about Life in Jerusalem after the 1st crusade for the European knights that stayed behind. There was a knight with a wounded leg. A local, Islamic doctor said the injury was no big deal and that a small poulti...

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So says Nilda Garcia, a Cuban refugee now living in south Florida. This week, Cuba celebrated 50 years of Communist Revolution -- 50 years of poverty, squalor, sickness, paranoia, abuse, and hopelessness for the average Cuban. Cuba's roads are deteriorating. Its buildings are crumbling. Its streets ...

Posted by ScuttleMonkey (89% noise) View Skip Anonymous Coward writes “On Friday the wonderfully customer centric AirTran decided to remove a family of 9 US born Muslims after a comment between two family members regarding how close to the Jet engine they had been seated. The wonderful part is...

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza. A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident. Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a messag...