I suppose the plagiarism thing is the start of the general election freak show season. Sure, the freak show stuff isn't always irrelevant, but often it's about as important as whatever the latest reality show star did.

After 5 years of intense bloody conflict in Syria, resulting so far in the death of half a million people, the severe injury of millions more, the destruction of major parts of the nation's housing and infrastructure and the displacement of 12 million persons, literally half the nation's population, it is abundantly clear that the entity that calls itself the "US antiwar movement" has failed. The US antiwar movement contributed significantly to ending the US war in Vietnam, and successfully prevented a US invasion of Nicaragua, and gave tremendous solidarity to the people of El Salvador in their struggle against their death-squad government.

Interesting note on this launch - The risk assessment office decided a couple of days ago to make the normal press area and nearby buildings off-limits, because the launch abort system is operational Because the prevailing winds are toward land, it would potential land on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center.

It pledges allegiance to only one flag, And the republic for which it stands, The United Stakes of casino is its band, Plugging a free-market only-right stand. No country has a claim for which it rests, Only profit gives it any soulful zest.

In Kashmir a young girl, fourteen stood staring out of the window, in dismay perhaps of seeing uniformed men only around, surround was greeted by bullets the newspaper reports they could save her life not her eyes, two eyes do not matter hand them over on a platter for dissection and minute inspection and let these array of pellets hound us into life without eyes. Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India.

Old man coughing up blood-flecked rhetoric, he grasps the podium during a fit of vertigo, knees buckling from the weight of the auditorium. Never again will he ascend Mount Washington or carouse with tortoises along Nicaragua's littoral.

Scott Thomas Outlar is a lover of truth and enjoys researching philosophy, psychology, politics, spirituality, and any other facet of consciousness in the pursuit of reaching a higher state of vibration. He also enjoys writing rants, poems, essays, short stories, and prose-fusion screeds covering such subjects.

Escape Calls for daring Escape Comes from a thirst wisdom and wit, consciousness filling the mind's casks until their walls burst. Dr T.P. Wilkinson writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket in Heinrich Heine's birthplace, DA1 4sseldorf.

To be or not to be-that is the question! Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of Hillaries and, by opposing, end them! Life's but a walking shadow-a poor player that struts and frets his moment upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing! To die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream! Aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.