Author: mike

The latest [US] BLS employment situation report states 4.5% unemployment, and 167,000 jobs created in December … the headline “unemployment” number we see every month isn’t the unemployment number — it’s one of many,...

It will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find...

Working in Morgan Stanley for a few months. It’s strange working just beside Wall Street – before it was something I usually only saw doing the tourist thing… now I am sourly pushing through...

[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get...

Prime Minister al-Maliki said in statements released Friday that those who opposed the execution of Saddam were insulting the honor of his victims. His office said he made the remarks in a meeting with...

Snaked out in a boat today past mangroves and into ocean. Was tracked by a school of dolphins swimming under the boat and jumping all around. They really do look happy. They remind me...

Not since the Middle Ages, when lopped-off body parts of divine do-gooders were bought, sold, and traded, has relic theft been big news. But the mysterious disappearance of Calcata’s beloved curio is different …...

A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc “modesty patrol” on a Jerusalem bus last month … says she was traveling to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City early...

[YouTube] Chad was also lucky to meet his future wife, Kathy Clark, at a party in 2000. Clark shared his interest in technology and in starting a family. She also turned out to be...

The Miss Universe Organization, owned by Trump and NBC, scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss Miss USA Tara Conner, who has come under fire amid reports she has visited bars, though she is...