Opinion Forum

Reckless Endangerment at Sea

March 1st, 2011

By Dan Miller Danish sailors and guests aboard the Sailing Vessel ING were captured by Somalian pirates when their boat was taken on Thursday, February 24th as they sailed in the Indian Ocean about five hundred miles off the coast of Somalia en route to the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean and thence Europe. Three of […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: children, hostages, Indian Ocean, piracy, pirates, Somali, Suez Canal
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…Your Pirates?

January 12th, 2011

By Tom Carter The last part of Emma Lazarus’ famous poem to the Statue of Liberty rhapsodizes: “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: entitlements, illegal immigration, Lazarus, pirates, Somali, Statue of Liberty
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Funny Money

December 31st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin Well, I’ve been here for about four months now, and in those four months I’ve managed to make a lot of posts about economic doom and gloom. And while it’s all unfortunately very true, it does tend to get a bit stale after a while. So I thought to round off the […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: free market, pirates, Somali, Somalia, stock exchange
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