Articles about America

The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) voted the People's Champ, Manny Pacquiao, as its Fighter of the Year for 2006, and trainer Freddie Roach as the year?s top cornerman. Pacquiao will receive the Edward J. Neil Trophy as fighter of the year for going 3-0, including two knockout victories over Erik Morales in 2006. Manny is currently vacationing in Orlando, Florida, with wife Jinkee and sons Michael Stephen and Emmanuel Jr. Filipino boxing fans' first family will arrive in New York just in time for the 82nd BWAA awards at the Copacabana, in Manhattan, New York.According to Top Rank Chairman Bob Arum, Mexico's Marco Antonio Barrera and Humberto Soto, Dominican Republic's Joan Guzman, and Venezuela's Edwin Valero are all set and ready to slug it out with the People's Champ. A decision on the Filipino pugilist's next fight will be known later this week in New York. Barrera, who lost an 11th-round knockout to the Pacman, is apparently putting a lot of pressure on Golden

If this site isn’t satire… He would give you the Wet off his back I tells ya….he is one of the “good ones”…

Nacqui a Ferruzzano (R.C.) il 31 agosto del 1891. Mio padre faceva lo scarparo, ma le scarpe ai piedi le portavano solo i signori. I poveri camminavano scalzi e mio padre faceva quel mestiere perchè era inabile per altri lavori. Gli era successo che camminando scalzo sulla neve i piedi si erano gelati e non sapendo come liberarsi dal gelo, ignorando anche il male che gliene poteva derivare li mise vicono al fuoco e si li bruciò. [antonio margariti, america! america!, galzerano editore, 1979]

Dear America,America is sick. In fact we've been ill for so long we've forgotten what a clean bill of health feels like. Our diseases' symptoms are rampant corruption, influence peddling, and apathy that have rendered America almost senseless. What should be an outrage is now the status quo. Those that we have charged to lead this great nation have instead carved up this nation with the intent of selling it off to the highest campaign contributor. And we allowed this to happen. We even make jokes about it. But its not funny and it will destroy this great land if we allow it to continue.Believe me when I tell you that I am not overstating anything. What your average American has failed to realize is that in addition everything I have stated that the current march of globalization will soon have our leadership beholden to foreign owned corporate and special interests if this is not stopped.The good news is there is a simple solution. The bad news is that our current leaders, corpora

You know for years I've been seeing and hearing people spinning so fast and furious about this guy's documentary films, that I am tired of dodging the holes in the ground created by all of the spinning. Thus, I've decided to set a few nights aside next week so that I can have my own personal Michael Moore Film Festival and finally view all of the movies that I have never seen as yet. His new film, "Sicko" sounds very interesting to me, since I agree with Michael's sentiments regarding health care in my America. READ ABOUT THIS HERE Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy.

Reviews are beginning to pop up everywhere about Christopher Cain's, September Dawn, due to be released in theaters on June 22nd. There's a growing buzz, and the serious, underlying historical back drop of this film's story is catching attention and stirring up some passionate opinions. Following are links to some news and reviews of September Dawn. • Reuters.com photos of the Director's Guild screening on May 2nd... • "Jon Voight Convincing And Compelling As Film Protagonist" - May 2nd press release and endorsement by The Circle of Friends for American Veterans [Read news story here] • "This is a most impressive film, extracting facts from the history of religious terrorism on U.S. soil and subsequently adding a sentimental subplot to explore a tragic love story." [Read full review by Gerald Wright at BlogCritics.org] • 'Dawn' recalls Sept. 11 killings -- but in 1857 Utah - informative interview with Director/Producer Christopher Cain [Ful

Reviews are beginning to pop up everywhere about Christopher Cain's, September Dawn, due to be released in theaters on June 22nd. There's a growing buzz, and the serious, underlying historical back drop of this film's story is catching attention and stirring up some passionate opinions. Following are links to some news and reviews of September Dawn. • Reuters.com photos of the Director's Guild screening on May 2nd... • "Jon Voight Convincing And Compelling As Film Protagonist" - May 2nd press release and endorsement by The Circle of Friends for American Veterans [Read news story here] • "This is a most impressive film, extracting facts from the history of religious terrorism on U.S. soil and subsequently adding a sentimental subplot to explore a tragic love story." [Read full review by Gerald Wright at BlogCritics.org] • 'Dawn' recalls Sept. 11 killings -- but in 1857 Utah - informative interview with Director/Producer Christopher Cain [Ful

The US media loves to report alleged abuses by American soldiers, but Fred Thompson provides a list of several honorable deeds performed by the US military on behalf of Muslims in an article on NRO.

Every 21 seconds another American is diagnosed with diabetes. It affects the lives of 20.8 million children and adults in this country and could rise to 50 million by the year 2025. It’s a tragedy that doesn’t have to happen. With hard work and leadership from Congress, we can end the diabetes epidemic in America.

Captain America is dead.  Check out the New York Daily News if you don?t believe me  ?  they had the ?exclusive? two days ago.  He exited a courthouse and was unceremoniously felled by a sniper?s rifle.  The Super-Soldier, the great Nazi smasher of World War II, the former leader of the Avengers, dead. This all took place in the pages of a comic book.  It was not the assassin?s bullet that killed our star-spangled icon, but writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting.  Captain America is ? and please forgive my use of jargon here ? imaginary.  Legendary artist Jack Kirby and writing partner Joe Simon created Cap in 1941 for Timely Comics (which eventually became Marvel).  Unlike many of his superhero peers during the Golden Age, Cap got his own title right out of the gate, making his debut on the cover and in the pages of Captain America Comics #1. Far more surprising than Cap?s death is the reaction it?s gotten in both the traditional media and the blogosphere.  People seem to be takin

My Visit To Phoenix Ron Kapon There are 12 cities in the U.S.A. with professional teams in all four major league sports: basketball, football, baseball and hockey. One of those cities is the fifth largest in population (1.4 million). That city just hosted the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) football game

By Margaret Backenheimer & J.D. Brown When asked what single nature cruise is the most spectacular on Earth, we have a ready answer: a cruise of the Galapagos, located six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador. But the Galapagos are far away, expensive to explore and congested with tour

DownloadVOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the National Wildlife Refuge System that protects wildlife in the United States.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:In nineteen-oh-three, the twenty-sixth president of the United States heard about aPelican Island National Wildlife RefugePelican Island National Wildlife Refugesmall island in the state of Florida that had many birds. President Theodore Roosevelt was told that hunters were killing most of the pelicans on the island. He soon decided the nation should protect these beautiful water birds.President Roosevelt declared the island the first federal protection area for birds. This refuge was named the Pelican Island Reservation. It was established on a very small piece of land in the Indian River Lagoon, near the Atlantic Ocean. The island became the first protected area in what later would become the huge National Wildlife Refuge System.VOICE TWO:Today the Wildli

DownloadThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with questions from three listeners.Thu Ya Naing from Burma wants to know how many colleges and universities are in the United States. Alexander Romashchenko in Russia wonders which university in the United States is the oldest. And Mohamad Firouzi in Iran would like to know more about Harvard University.The National Center for Education Statistics says more than four thousand two hundred colleges and universities award degrees. These include two-year schools as well as four-year schools.Harvard HallThe oldest institution of higher learning in the country is Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was established in sixteen thirty-six as Harvard College. Massachusetts was an English colony at the time.The school was named for a Puritan religious leader. John Harvard gave the college all his books and half his property when he died.At first, Harvard had one teacher and nine students

It's hard to overstate the impact of the Ford Mondeo on British motoring. The D-segment saloon/wagon has been a top-ten seller every month since launch in 1993. Nearly 1.2 million have found homes, and Prime Minister Tony Blair even coined the phrase "Mondeo Man" to describe the kind of Average Joe voter he wanted to help. What's more, the car was the benchmark in the class, besting the likes of the Vauxhall Vectra, VW Passat, Renault Laguna, and Honda Accord. So you can imagine that the launch of a new Ford Mondeo is a pretty big event in theU.K. The question for American drivers is, why couldn't Ford sell the Mondeo in the States, since it's so well done? Styling-wise, the Mondeo would fit right in with the latest tailored designs seen in America . It has a crisp look, a take on the "kinetic design" language seen recently on the S-MAX MPV, the current European Car of the Year. It's a world away from the outgoing Mondeo, and while it's very modern it won't be to everyone's lik

Daily Atheist posted an interesting story from Reuters about how some folks are launching a London-based ex-Muslim group. Similar groups already exist in Germany and Scandinavia, and it sounds like one will soon start in Holland. Obviously, these countries have more prominent Muslim populations than the United States, but the post started me thinking about whether we'd ever see anything like that here.It seems that Americans are split between being terrified of Muslims and being insufficiently critical of Islam. Some would say that such a group would never make it here because Americans would fear the wrath of Muslims too much to permit it. Others would say that such a group would not be welcome because Islam, as all religions, deserves our respect under the banner of multiculturalism.Personally, I'd like to see ex-Muslim, ex-Christian, and ex-Jewish groups pop up all over. To worry about offending the international Muslim community through such groups is absurd, especially while we

One of the most common assertions one encounters by Christian extremists and even some moderate Christians is that America is a Christian nation. This claim has been thoroughly discredited in more sources than any individual could possibly compile. In fact, it is hard to imagine an atheist blogger who hasn't addressed this claim and one point or another. I realize that this post will do little to prevent the issue from recurring here, but at least I will have a prepared response ready for next time. And besides, the topic certainly fits with the current Blog Against Theocracy blogswarm.Common Sources for the Christian Nation ClaimFirst, let's unpack the claim itself. Why might one argue that America is a Christian nation? As it turns out, there are many reasons. Here is a quick review of some of the most common:The majority of American citizens identify themselves as Christians on various surveys.The American government officially endorses or sponsors Christianity.Non-Christians have