This was actually an article in a local paper about a historian and Middle East expert spreaking at the University of Montana. It was neat to see such an interesting read in the local paper.
Anyway, here is a link...
16 Azar, or National Student Day is a commemoration of December 7th, 1953, when three students at Tehran University were killed after protesting the visit of Vice President Nixon to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, seen as a congratulation for...
Since the 13 Aban demonstrations nearly a month ago, the international nuclear debate has been ratcheted up, and the domestic scene of the Islamic Republic of Iran keeps lurching further into the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' blood-soaked hands. From...
The numbers appear to be leaked by The White House, 30,000 more troops for Afghanistan.
Some of the buzz from the MSM is that Pres. Obama will present this as a part of a plan for winning in Afghanistan and...
President Obama is going to announce his plans for Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.
It may be ironic that by then we will be done giving thanks.
Word right now is that the military anticipates over 30,000 more soldiers being sent there. Pres....
However, any mistake in mere expression or arrangement is excusable; but when you come to fancy geography, differing from the other not by miles or leagues, but by whole days' journeys, where is the classical model for that? One...
There's this site I know, you may have heard of it. It starts with an H as in "Hell". They have a story up right now as their top screaming headline, quoting CBS that President Obama has decided to...
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