As more and more Americans get disilussioned with President Barack Obama, criticism of some of his ways have been unleashed on the internet. Many of the current ones pertain to his use of the teleprompter. Obama is perhaps the only world leader in history who uses a teleprompter to deliver speeches. Critics say that without a teleprompter Obama becomes...

World War 3 has been a popular topic of recent books and astrological predictions. (Few years ago a Nostradamus prediction interpreted by author Michael Rathford said that there would be a WWIII in 2007 and the Antichrist would be resposnsible for it. It urned out to be quite an uneventful year). While the books are mostly fiction, the ground realities today...

It has been hailed as a win-win budget by all, barring the few crtitics that are there to find the cons in each year’s financial plan. P. Chidambram has ensured a populist financial plan, with gains galore for the poor and the middle class. Following are 21 highlights of India’s Union Budget for 2008-2009: 1. Changes in I-T slab. Threshold of...

Barack Obama, Democratic front-runner for the US President, sees Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration and has a portrait of the apostle of peace in his office to remind him that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. “In my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be...