Topic: Italy

Nancy Pelosi briefly hospitalized in Rome

ROME (Reuters) - House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was released from a short stay in a hospital on Monday and is resuming her scheduled activities in Italy, spokesman Nadeam Elshami said.Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House from 2007 ...
The stimulus bill is bad enough, then add the mortgage bailout, T.A.R.P. 2 (banking bail out), universal health care, the omnibus budget bill, and social security/Medicare obligations. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed, wrote this legislative equivalent of a road apple. A good ...

Features of Historical Domes

Creating domes of a size that we are now accustomed to seeing in cities around the world was considered impossible until Brunelleschi's " This became the largest dome built since that of the Pantheon in Rome, which was rebuilt by the Emperor ...

Giuseppe Saragat

June 11, 1988, Rome), statesman and founder of the Socialist Party of Italian Workers (PSLI), who held many ministerial posts from 1944 to 1964, when he became president of the Italian Republic (1964-71).. A University of Turin graduate in economics and commerce, ...

Free Speech and 'Censorware' Debate

A Reuters story on IOL reports Kazakhstan, which is known for keeping media under a tight rein, has blocked access to a number of opposition Web sites. And according to BBC News, a bill before the U.S. Congress would prevent Internet companies ...

Demographic winter denial

This story from the new issue of the left-liberal magazine The Nation is a choice example of the left's emotion-based denial of demographic winter. What's fascinating about the essay is never does the writer actually examine the case these conservatives make about ...