IRENE, South Africa — Clint Dempsey's right knee buckled at Blackburn last Jan. 17, and American soccer fans spent two days worrying. He was one of the few who wasn't anguished.
Here's a drop of irony to lace the pathos that has lapped around England's World Cup ambitions for 44 years. Could it be that David Beckham may, at his fourth attempt, be on the point of a most decisive contribution?
MEULABOH, Indonesia — Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.
This false liberalism stands beside the sword of Mohammed that has spread across every continent in the form of student organizations such as MSA and SJP. This false liberalism clearly supports Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda.
Only one person has been lucky enough to play golf on the Moon – Alan Shepard got to hit the longest drive ever on a Nasa mission in 1971.
Tune in to Glenn Beck's Fox News show or his syndicated radio program, and you'll soon learn about the evils of the US dollar, a currency on the verge of collapse due to runaway government spending, a ballooning national debt, and imminent Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation.
John Cleese is to embark on his first-ever UK tour next year at the age of 71. The comedian, who recently agreed a divorce settlement believed to be in the region of £12m, has dubbed it the "Alimony Tour".
Is eating a pork sausage a day bad for you? In his regular column, Michael Blastland puts claims this week that it causes heart disease and diabetes through the Go Figure risk-o-meter.
London department store Harrods has been sold for about £1.5bn. Owner Mohammed Al Fayed has agreed to sell the Knightsbridge business to Qatar Holdings, the Qatari royal family's investment company.
For a brief moment, you imagined that history had taken a different course.
If the Tea Party movement really is, as some organizers have put it, this generation's Civil Rights movement, we should expect some decent music. In theory.
THE first pics of JESSE JAMES'S alleged mistress No3 have surfaced. In the racy snaps, LA photographer BRIGITTE DAGUERRE proves she's equally comfortable in front of the camera as she is behind it.
MICHELLE MCGEE had a Fatal Attraction-style obsession with JESSE JAMES before they'd even met - according to her ex-hubby.
A new bar called "Thrills" is set to open on Saint Patrick's Day near Bartonsville. The main attraction will be professional dancers wearing skimpy costumes. The business will be located along Route 715 in Reeders.
Plans to elevate the much loved Yorkshire pudding to the same culinary status as Champagne and Parma ham could spell disaster for the long-standing partnership between the baked batter treats and traditional roast beef.
We have no idea what these Italian (we think) producers are fighting about, but it was obviously very important to them. They couldn't even wait until they got out of the view of the camera before they let their fists fly.
If you're confiding in a friend about sleep problems, the conversation might turn to topics like not getting enough rest or tossing and turning at night.
They spoke to me about the downfall of America, with fear burning in their eyes. It was vintage "tea party" talk, the kind of stuff we're hearing every day.
The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted.
It's now over two years since I emigrated from the UK, in about years time I'll be eligible to take citizen classes so become an American citizen. Yet there is that nagging feeling about does a test make you a citizen or does birth?.
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The wars in distant lands were always going to come home, but not this way.
In an op-ed several months ago, I advised my fellow progressive Democrats to support health care reform even if it fails to include some of their cherished goals. Now I'm begging.
At the Major League Soccer draft this month, there was a lot of talk about how the expansion Philadelphia Union had sold 9,000 season tickets, and some of the conversation went like this:
It's been two years since Taiwan's MPs, notorious for their regular fights, swore to improve their reputation and stop getting into mass brawls in parliament. That resolution was going very well - until yesterday, when they decided to have a huge punch-up again.
During his CNN broadcast from Port-au-Prince on Monday night, anchor Anderson Cooper implied that the overwhelming task of helping Haiti's victims might be being compromised by ad-hoc rescue missions launched through political channels.
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