The ocean liner RMS Titanic, which sunk 100 years ago, on April 15, 1912 -- killing 1,514 people -- remains seared in the U.S. popular culture's consciousness, and on the minds of others around the world.
Concerning the rhetoric coming from the White House recently, much of the punditry has found itself shocked and alarmed. I, on the other hand, have been asking why we are shocked at the class warfare, opportunism, and socialist language coming from the president and his puppets. It's a mere byproduct of the president's worldview, after all. That said, a review of this week's White House commentary leaves even me flabbergasted at the administration's overt attempt at pitting the rich against the poor.
Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, may not be a household name in the United States. But in East Asia, he is often at the center of international controversy because of nationalistic-themed statements that regularly infuriate China and South Korea. The octogenarian head of the world's largest city for the past 13 years raised eyebrows again on Monday during a visit to the United States when he mentioned a group of islands at the heart of a major territorial dispute between China and Japan.
Tax Day 2012 is upon us. As many American procrastinators scrutinize their forms one last time to make sure they've itemized every possible deduction, a new study shows that corporations have their own ways to keep their cash away from Uncle Sam's coffers.
Chinese police arrived at a factory Monday morning to find it ablaze. Black smoke was billowing out of the compound's white administrative building, and the sounds of explosions rang out. Hours later, after the flames had been tamed and investigators had entered the building, police revealed that Hebei Province's Xueyang Gelatin Factory had been a victim of arson, shockingly, by the plant's own manager.