Raymond Ibrahim on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide: Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the Armenian genocide that took place under Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during and after WWI.  Out of an approximate population of two million, some 1.5 million Armenians died. If early 20th century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology [...]

Oh, YES! We all are guilty of having laughed our asses off at this sweet, young, clueless woman 6 years ago. But she is having the last laugh today, she is. Somebody on FOX News Channel needs to find this gal and interview her about her prescient ways... Uh-huh. Go on and laugh ... again. [...]

What an amazing Saturday afternoon treat one of my friends offered me in an email, and I thought I would share it with you. I just adore old photographs. They stir so much wonder and imagination within me. The old photos always stress the fact that pictures are tiny slices of moments out of time, [...]

Conrad Black in The New York Sun remembers Margaret Thatcher: [...] When large chunks of her parliamentary party lost their nerve over her free-market economics — a reduction of the top personal income-tax rate to 40 percent, elimination of all currency controls, massive privatization of industry, and right-to-work laws to remove the terror of the labor [...]

Posting this pic. Why? Just because...

A giant has left us: Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell has announced. Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning. "A further statement will be [...]

This would be laughable if the world we not so inside-out and upside-down right now... Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro warned North Korea against war on Friday, and said that it is primarily the United States’ responsibility to prevent a conflict from breaking out. Castro wrote the advice in a column — his first in [...]

"North Korea approves nuclear strike on United States" It's almost 3am. Somebody wake Barry ... Don't underestimate little short round, jr.... President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good. He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means [...]

Wake him when Rome stops burning, huh? "US economy expands at 0.4 percent rate" "MARC FABER: Not Even Gold Will Save You From What Is Coming" Them city folks and we-uns are pretty much alike, Though they ain't used to living in the sticks. We don't like stone or cement, but we is in agreement [...]

As always, I humbly thank my fellow Babalu editors, and readers, for allowing me these bits of my personal activism on behalf of something very near and dear to my heart and soul ... Down Syndrome. Your feel good story of the week. While I have never been much of a fan of that whole [...]

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina is the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. He is 76 years old. He is a Jesuit and has taken the name Pope (stand by ... I thought I'd heard "Francis" but listening to the color commentary it might not yet [...]

7:06 pm in Vatican City ... White smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney. Bells ring from St. Peter's Basilica, confirming pope has been elected. A new Pope has been elected to rule the Roman Catholic Church. Chicago Tribune: "New pope elected; white smoke above Sistine Chapel"

How's that 'hope and change' going in "Arab Spring" Egypt? The "arts", that are a big part of the tourist-draw in Egypt, are suffering under the Egyptian hope and change... A once-prominent Egyptian belly dancer said she has decided to stop dancing, saying Islamists have destroyed art and creativity in Egypt. “Artists are sitting at [...]

Saber rattling from North Korea that we should take seriously -- but won't. North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the U.N Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take "second and third steps" after a nuclear test last week. "As the saying goes, a new-born puppy knows no [...]

The Pope's stepping down. An asteroid buzzing the Earth. Balls-of-fire falling out of the sky all around the world, Russia, San Francisco, and now Cuba . Apparently the gods are not pleased... HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media [...]