The most important news for Thursday, March 11th, 2010....
Three very strong earthquakes (6.9, 6.7, 6.0) rocked Chile on Thursday morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president.
Greek public and private sector workers went on strike on Thursday, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transportation in the second nationwide walkout in two weeks in protest against proposed austerity plans.
On Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised that the nation of Israel "will be annihilated" before too much longer.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is stepping up the pressure on Israel over construction in East Jerusalem.
It turns out that the Democrats are employing really dirty politics during a final push to get the health care "reform" bill passed.
Under the health care bill, individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples who earn over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents.
The U.S. government budget deficit for the month of February was over 220 billion dollars - which set a new all-time record for one month.
The Governor of Illinois is calling for a 33 percent increase in the state income tax in order to deal with the growing budget deficit in that state.
According to data released by the Labor Department, government workers have sailed through this recent economic crisis virtually unscathed.
A new government commercial currently running on one of Britain’s most popular radio stations is encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.
Congressman Ron Paul is speaking out against plans to require all Americans to get a national identification card. But Republican Senator Lindsey Graham sees no problem with forcing all Americans to carry a biometric ID card.
New York City chefs and restaurant owners are furious over a bill that has been introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
The superintendent of the Kansas City, Missouri, school district is defending a plan to shut down nearly half the district's schools.
New allegations regarding ex-Congressman Eric Massa are starting to come out.
Barack Obama's decision to kill NASA's Constellation program to launch astronauts into orbit and return Americans to the moon is causing quite a bit of anxiety over at NASA.
Considering the fact that Barack Obama is trying to dramatically reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal, you might find this article interesting: 50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons.
Meanwhile, more than 2,000 servicemen from Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are currently taking part in large-scale nuclear warfare drills.
Is Vladimir Putin slowly trying to reconstruct the Soviet Union?
A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze in Norway is estimated to have surpassed 500,000 samples.
Why is the U.S. Department of Education buying shotguns?
A Christian couple in Pakistan has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for touching the Quran without washing their hands first.
The opening prayer at today's opening session of the Virginia General Assembly was delivered by a radical imam.
Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in that state from federal regulations.
There is a proposal to legalize assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply "had enough of life" in Holland.
The Chinese government is considering a law which would ban the eating of cat and dog meat.
A Mississippi county school board announced on Wednesday that it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.
Lastly, a Catholic priest who claims that he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession says that he is worried about the consequences of satanic infiltration in the Vatican.
