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Monday was the Sun’s angriest day in years

The sun, it seems, is in overdrive. Late Monday night, the sun unleashed its third major solar flare in 24 hours — the biggest and most powerful solar storm of the year, so far. This latest sun storm erupted Monday…

Pakistan’s historic election could bring change to military ties with US

May 11, 2013: Pakistani women wait to register their names and cast their ballots at a polling station on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP) Pakistan’s historic election today could have immense consequences for the region and the so-called war…

Don’t blame capitalism for the terrible tragedy in Bangladesh

The media has been having a field day with the recent collapse of a clothing factory complex in Bangladesh that has killed 400, with many more dead still buried in the rubble. Since the mills inside the complex made garments…

China’s cotton stockpiling threatens to devastate American producers

AIKEN, S.C. – The Unites States is the third-largest producer of cotton, a product that everyone wears, everyone uses. But that may not be enough to ensure the security of the American cotton industry, with China now a major player…

Sun unleashes biggest solar flare of the year yet

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a powerful M6.5 class flare, the strongest of 2013 at the time, at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171…

’42’ presents a shining chapter in the America saga

The United States has always been a great country, but the new movie “42” shows how it became an even greater country, a more perfect union. Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the modern era of major league baseball,…

The next pope — looking for joy and the right personality in Rome

On Tuesday 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will begin the voting process for the pope — single most influential religious leader on Earth and the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics. At 4:30 p.m. local time the cardinal-electors will…

Republicans need to quit complaining and start cooperating with Obama

Tonight, the president of the United States of America and the leader of the party that won the election in 2012 set forward a strong plan not only for the next four years but the next four decades of American…

American people, not lawmakers, really understand our fiscal mess

The 2012 election did not provide a clear mandate for either party, and certainly not for President Obama. The election itself reflected the polarization of the last four years and offered little in the way of direction about what the…

We are still living in deeply divided times

“We know what the best thing would be. It would be an agreement that sends the signal to our economy, and to the world, that after years of punting on the major fiscal challenges we face, 2013 is going to…