On October 28th of last year, for better or worse, my life was completely transformed. Due to a massive infection, my left foot and ankle were amputated. Things I had taken for granted my entire life, like getting up in the morning and walking to the bathroom, were now goals to be achieved after weeks [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
There are a lot of urgent and important issues in the country today to be dealt with. There are the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There is the crumbling economy. There is the almost 10% unemployment rate. North Korea is doing all it can to build nuclear missiles, and Iran is doing all it can [...]
Maybe there is something in the water in Oslo:
President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled [...]
Here’s the latest on talks with Iran:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton say last week’s historic joint talks with Iran were a limited success.
Clinton says the session in Geneva yielded three agreements that buy time for the U.S. to assess Iran’s seriousness about negotiations. In the meantime, [...]
Just when you thought you had seen and heard it all from the Hollywood crowd, this happens:
Whoopi Goldberg is facing a fierce backlash after saying that film director Roman Polanski didn’t commit “rape-rape” when he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Goldberg, star of The Color Purple and Sister Act, said: “I know it wasn’t [...]
