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Date: September 22nd, 2006

Former Pan-Am Airlines employees will get their last checks

22 September, 2006 (12:55) | Aviation | By: ricjames

There are many, many users in the blogosphere who are in college and early in their working careers who will have no conscious memory of that entity that flew under the name “Pan Am.” That’s because Pan American World Airways shut down operations 15 years ago, a victim of the aviation industry’s adjusting to deregulation [...]

Hamas: We won’t be part of govt that recognizes Israel

22 September, 2006 (08:54) | GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

Well, that didn’t take long. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday he will not recognize a government that recognizes Israel. Haniyeh spoke a day after moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicated at the United Nations that a coalition government of Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah movement would recognize the Jewish state. “I personally [...]

US Army meets recruiting goal for 2006

22 September, 2006 (07:24) | GWOT | By: ricjames

Well, so much for another Democrat/DU/Kos talking point. Seems the US Army has made their recruiting goal for this year with a bit over a week to spare. That’s the best recruiting performance since 1997 and it’s during wartime when no one can reasonably say they don’t understand the chances of actually going into combat [...]