Amnesty International calls on the United Nations to impose an immediate and complete embargo of arms to Hamas Israel and other Palestinian armed groups. The human rights organization issued a report previously regarding the foreign arms supplied to help Israel and Gaza, where she claims to have gathered evidence that Israel and Hamas both of [...]

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Living in Lamar, Colorado, at the heart of America, pedestrians expect a certain level of hometown comfort and nostalgia. Why wouldn’t they? The media purports gangly cowboys and rough shod horses still roam the dirt streets so, wouldn’t gallery style boardwalk shops be part of the picture? And yet, the metal façade structures resembling 1960’s [...]

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Old dogs tend to sleep in the middle of the road, move slowly and don’t bark as quickly as they once did at the first sign of danger. As they begin to age it is not their lifetime of loyalty that keeps them alive until the last possible moment, it is ours. Anyone with an [...]

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How would international law treat the hypothetical case of a national space shuttle mission encountering an alien race? To begin with, I should probably instead use the word “extraterrestrial” rather than “alien,” as alien is already a well established legal term of art. So this is not the law of foreigners in a state’s territory, [...]

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Honk if you Love Pluto! Casual surveys such as this bumper sticker quote began springing up immediately following the International Astronomical Union’s decision to reverse itself when the definition of a ‘planet’ suddenly ousted Pluto. At the same time the bounds of our Solar System lurched significantly closer, it seems as if our imaginations about [...]

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2012 will be a very interesting year. The United States will have a Presidential election. Across the world, elections will also be held in France, Mexico, and Ireland. The Freedom Tower will be completed in New York. The Summer Olympic games will be held in London, England. NASA’s new Orion spacecraft is scheduled for completion [...]

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