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A strange happening occurred at the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday, several photos showing the American flag upside at the Capitol went viral on Twitter. The flag garnered so much attention because traditionally if the American flag is upside down then it symbolizes “dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” Take a look: 🚨Just in: The American Flag is flying upside down at the top of the US Senate on the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. According to the U.S. Flag Code, flying the American flag upside down is only meant to be done "as...

Obama canceled plans to attend summits in Indonesia and Brunei on Thursday, the White House said in a statement... will no longer visits to Malaysia and the Philippines... //snip// http://english.cri.cn/index.htm Chinese Premier to Attend East Asia Leaders Meetings, Visit Brunei, Thailand, Vietnam

President Barack Obama made two fundamental mistakes today in his press conference which was intended to calm the markets. First, he did not lead off with a moment of reflection on the loss of American military lives in Afghanistan over the weekend. Second, he completely missed the boat on why Standard & Poor’s (S&P) lowered the credit rating of the United States. The President should have led off his press conference with prayers and condolences for the families of the 30 members of the U.S. military who lost their lives in Afghanistan over the weekend. Instead, the President waited until...

Friday, Dec 31, 2004 Bison bone discovery turns B.C. history upside-down PENTICTON (BC Newspaper Group) — The year 2004 ends with a major story in archaeology, revealed by the use of new DNA technology on ancient bison bones scattered around western North America. The findings profoundly affect our understanding of how North America was populated by humans, and could have an impact on aboriginal politics as well. The conventional wisdom, taught to generations in school, speaks of a land bridge connecting Asia with Alaska. This now-submerged bridge was created by lower sea levels in the last ice age, which ended...

One last update from our grass roots movement to inform America about the real John Kerry. We have a volunteer who is a 30 year veteran of the Marine Corps out in the Los Angeles area going door-to-door through out his neighborhood delivering the flyer from http://www.notjohnkerry2004.com/ and so far he has collected just about every KerryEdwards yard sign at the homeowner's request. From another veteran in Oregon, "I've printed out 1,000's of the flyers that you sent to me and have been distributing it all over the place around here. It works! Thanks!!!"