Protestors called on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to push for an improvement in China’s human rights record ahead of her visit to Beijing.
AFP: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime critic of Beijing’s rule over Tibet and its rights record, arrived in China on Sunday for a trip focused on energy and climate change. US embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson confirmed
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy “When the president of the United States asks you to step up and serve in a capacity like this, that to me is the end of the conversation
Fox News: Researchers will visit 100 houses of ill repute — a whole hamlet of harlots — to collect data on 700 prostitutes and 150 pimps and madams, referred to as “gatekeepers” in the study’s sterile abstract.
Had Hollywood been in charge of casting I would have never been offered the role…a white man targeting an Asian organized crime syndicate. But Hollywood and the bad guys didn’t understand my “motivation.” If I sold myself as a criminal
During the Cold War, a slew of movies came out that dealt with the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. This is not surprising since the atom and hydrogen bombs were the most powerful weapons ever devised
Forty people who lost their spouses in China’s devastating earthquake of last year tied the knot in Sichuan Province on Sunday, state media CCTV reported. It was the first mass wedding after last May’s earthquake.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter program – the Defense Department’s costliest weapons program ever – according to current and former government officials, familiar with the attacks.
Politico: “Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela,” said Texas Rep. John Carter, a member of the party’s elected leadership who has organized an
Do you have a spare tire? Some bulges? Do your thighs rub together? Do you have a big gut? Well, be prepared to be ostracized. They already did a number on smokers. It used to be you could smoke almost
Mine Explosion Kills at Least 18 in China Associated Press Apr. 18, 2009. 05:09 AM EST A warehouse explosion killed 18 people and injured three at a coal mine in central China, a provi… More A warehouse explosion killed 18
Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the idea behind Google’s latest move to allow users to download free music in China. Google has partnered with a Chinese company, Top100.cn, to make it
They plunder. They kidnap. They ransom. They steal. They kill. They are destroying the fabric of world civilization. They are pirates, and piracy must be stopped. Yes, Hollywood is filled with terrible individuals that must be reigned in. Sure, I
All She Wants to Do is Tax! Music video parody of Barbara Boxer in time for the tea party rallies. Political parody has a long tradition in the West, with the First Amendment affording significant protections for political speech. In
When script writers run out of something else to say (e.g., there are only so many times they can say everyone is uninsured and miserable about it), guns and gun makers are easily available to demonize. “Life” and “House” have
I’m not a big Global Citizen. I’m not proud of how the world conducts itself, it has a terrible history and there’s nothing great about humanity other than we have a great Creator. Mankind’s achievement is only consistent in how
AP: Stepping onto the world stage for the first time in his two-month presidency, Barack Obama is holding face-to-face talks with the leaders of the two nations—Russia and China—most aggressively challenging the U.S. position atop the global order.
Embedded video from CNN Video AP: There’s a bowling alley, wine cellar, wine tasting room, gift-wrapping room, a humidity-controlled silver storage room, China room, library, gym and media room, among many others.
If the trajectory of the Obama administration continues like this we’ll have to make little adjustments to our lifestyle. So here’s a checklist for making it through 2012: Yes, we’re still obsessed with culture and groupthink so we should try
Perhaps it went something like this… Og, Bog, and Grog were out hunting mammoth one day somewhere in the mountains of Prehistoric Europe. Grog’s job was to select the most succulent, Grade A Prime Mammuthus primigenius available in the Mesolithic
Embedded video from CNN Video AP: North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists near the country’s border with China, South Korean news reports and a South Korean missionary said Thursday. The journalists—Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice
As I recall, the words to Jim Croce’s song from the early seventies went something like this: You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t pass counterfeit currency in old Las Vegas And you
With 1.3 billion people and the world’s second-largest economy, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) stands an insecure colossus: hyper-sensitive, moody, and quick to deploy diplomatic, economic or military muscle to silence critics of all stripes. Of all the forms
