When Soldiers Snap
New York Times
The current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have claimed more than their share of stress victims, with a rising number of suicides among soldiers and high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. Such casualties often occur not on the battlefi...
Battle over same-sex marriage escalates
Bridgeton News
The radio ad, warning that same-sex marriage would send the wrong message to children, played over a loudspeaker in a church gym Thursday in Asbury Park, as 200 gay-rights supporters listened in silence at a post-Election Day "emergency act...
Poppies-Why does everyone wear them on TV?
Daily Mail
Its only the Scottish destroyer in the PM post who has dragged us down at the moment. Once we get an English PM ,next year God willing, things will start to look up. I have no wish to be part of the EU even less to be a member of the global...
Plenty of reasons to temper our optimism
Detroit Free Press
I can't help comparing the challenges of GM and Chrysler today, post-bankruptcy, with those of post-WWII Europe. If Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had had his way, Germany and the rest of war-ravaged Europe would have been left in ruins for g...
Weird but true
New York Post
The South Wales Evening Post liked the picture enough to run it on Page 1. A New Zealand artist sold a sculpture of a government official made from manure for $2,220 on an auction Web site. Sam Mahon said he sculpted the bust of New Zealand...
British premier urges greater responsibility from banks
CNN
Nobody doubts that we will have failed collectively if the post-crisis financial system that eventually emerges looks more or less like the one that brought the world economy to the brink of attack," Brown said. "The reputation and legitima...
Octoberfest gives big boost to The Post-Crescent's 'Stock the Shelves ...
Post-Crescent
A week ago today, the goal for The Post-Crescent's "Stock the Shelves" Do It! Community Campaign was increased from $150,000 to $195,000. Just five days later, that new goal has almost been met, with two weeks left in the campaign that bene...
Police: 1 Killed, 3 Injured in Shooting Near Vail
ABC News
Police said the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sandbar Sports Grill, a popular bar that can hold ... told The Denver Post that he was sitting in the bar watching a televised football game when said he heard sounds that he th...
