In Yemen, thousands of people returned to the steets for a fifth day demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down. At the same time, swelling numbers of government loyalists occupied strategic locations in the capital, chanting slogans and saying they won’t allow pro-democracy protesters to drive the country towards instability and chaos. Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports.
Continue reading …America is rapidly transforming into a post-materialist world—and that’s put a screeching halt to our economic growth, argues David Brooks of the New York Times . To prove the point, he imagines two men. The first lived from 1900 to 1974, watching the world move from horse-drawn buggies to Chevys….
Continue reading …Here’s hoping you’ve had a healthy helping of the letter “H” already, because Arianna Huffington may soon own it. OK, so that’s exaggerating—a lot—but Gawker is still in a tizzy over two new trademarks filed by the Huffington Post in December. The first seems pretty fair: It protects…
Continue reading …Wal-Mart is a stickler for store policy: It fired four employees in Utah after they disarmed a convicted felon who pulled a gun on them. After the employees saw the man try to shoplift a netbook, they escorted him to a store office, reports AoL News . There, he pulled out…
Continue reading …Two main themes are emerging from President Obama’s news conference this afternoon—he called out Iran over its violent crackdown on protesters and said critics of his budget plan were way too “impatient”: On Iran: “I find it ironic that you’ve got the Iranian regime pretending to celebrate what happened…
Continue reading …Apple at long last introduced its long-rumored subscription plan—whether app developers like it or not. The system not only sets up an easy way to charge recurring payments for iPad/iPhone/iPod content, it also mandates that developers use it if they want to set up any kind of subscription service,…
Continue reading …Andrew Breitbart, fresh off the news of Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against him, has gotten himself embroiled in another controversy. His Big Government website lashed out at Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign … by basically calling her fat. A cartoon strip on the website shows an overweight Obama eating a huge pile of…
Continue reading …As Amanda Knox appeals her murder conviction, her parents must now also go on trial. An Italian judge today ordered Edda Mellas and Curt Knox to stand trial for libel, after they repeated in a newspaper interview Knox’s claims that she was mistreated by police during her night-long interrogation after…
Continue reading …Inspired by Egypt , tens of thousands turned out yesterday for an opposition rally in Iran—leading some lawmakers to take an especially hard line against opposition leaders today, calling for them to stand trial and be put to death. Pro-government legislators chanted, “Death to Mousavi, Karroubi, and Khatami,” three of…
Continue reading …Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” debuted to wildly enthusiastic reviews rom the likes of Elton John and Perez Hilton, who see it as the new gay anthem—but other prominent gays are not so happy about it, writes Jacob Bernstein on the Daily Beast . Critiques ranged from the mild (“Gaga…
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