After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by British Petroleum, exploded and sank, the resultant oil spill has ran virtually unchecked for the past two weeks. An estimated 210,000 gallons a day are gushing out of a broken pipe 5,000 feet below sea level.
President Barack Obama called the spill “a potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.”…
Articles by Michael Reiser
As oil spill continues, cleaning up won’t be easy
French president calls for ban on veils
A veiled French woman in Nantes, a town in western France, on April 23. (AP)
Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, released a statement last Wednesday saying he will propose legislation banning the wearing of full veils in public by Muslim women, saying the “veil hurts the dignity of women and is unacceptable in French…
Volcano paralyzes air traffic in Europe
The crater at the summit of the volcano in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier on April 17, which has released a lingering volcanic ash plume that has paralyzed air traffic in Europe. (AP)
Eyjafjallajökull. No, that is not a misprint, but the name of a large volcano on Iceland’s southern coast that is spewing ash across…
U.S. and Russia continue nuclear talks
Perhaps one of the most storied issues in American political history continued with a new chapter this past weekend. President Barack Obama and Russian Pres. Dmitri Medvedev of Russia spoke about taking steps toward a disarmament agreement between the two nuclear-weapon powerhouses that would decrease both arsenals by about 25 percent.
The talks stem from…
BBC host admits to taking part in suicide
Ray Gosling, a documentary maker for the BBC, made a chilling confession during a narration for a documentary about death and dying. Gosling drifted away from the script and said, “I killed someone once.” That person was Gosling’s terminally ill partner who was dying of HIV/AIDS.
Gosling revealed that he asked the doctor to leave…
