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If you think nursery rhymes are safe to ingrain in children’s rote memory, think again. Hidden within the seemingly innocuous and humorous lines are images and concepts even adults will cringe over. Most nursery rhymes run the gamut of insane to inane. Ring Around The Rosie is about the stench carried by the rashes of bubonic plague that killed million [...]

Nobody really knows where Osama bin Laden is. Some no longer care either. It seems that he has become irrelevant. Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, believe that bin Laden is dead. Even former president Benazir Bhutto, who was murdered by extremist terrorists, believed that the poster boy for terror is [...]

It’s a SHOCK that has reverberated across the world. The financial capital of India has been attacked, killing innocent lives and creating an atmosphere of fear and chaos everywhere. Each one of us has a story to tell about family and friends caught in the line of terror. I am not in India right now, and that has not stopped me from being glued [...]

Somali Islamists are good at assault rifles. They even have a training camp just outside the Somali capital of Mogadishu. They are known to have links to al-Qaeda, and have regrouped. Somalia is infamously known for two things: relentless and fearless pirates along the Gulf of Aden and the country being pronounced a failed state. Somalia has been beset [...]