http://ruggedreporter.com Brand new idea of old-school reporting. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:42:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CAEN, France — President Barack Obama on Saturday suggested a new and stronger response to North Korea's nuclear and missile testing, promising to take "a very hard look" at the next steps. He said North Korea has tested the limits of patient diplomacy intended to persuade the reclusive communist country to ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=712 By Patrick Killelea, Wed Jun 3 2009 House prices will keep falling in most places because those prices are still dangerously high compared to incomes and rents. Banks say a safe mortgage is a maximum of 3 times the buyer's yearly income. Landlords say a safe price is a ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=746 In less than a year we have seen the bankruptcy of financial and industrial behemoths once thought impregnable: Lehman Brothers, Chrysler and GM. Selectively employing the mantra "too big to fail" with companies such as AIG and Citigroup, the U.S. government has sought to reassure the American public that it ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=715 HERMOSILLO, Mexico — A fast-moving fire killed 31 children in a day care center in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts of firefighters who punched through the walls and fought their way through flames to rescue babies, toddlers and others trapped inside. At least 25 children and five employees were hospitalized after ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=719 WICHITA, Kan. — Hundreds of people gathered Saturday to honor slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, and a longtime friend eulogized him as a passionate and generous man who repeatedly overcame difficult challenges. Tiller's funeral at College Hill United Methodist Church also drew small groups of protesters. During the service, Tiller was ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=720 Near the start of his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, President Obama described himself as "a student of history;" by the end it was clear that he needs to get back to the classroom. For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=725 In the 48 hours since President Obama's speech in Cairo, Israeli journalists and pundits have had a lot to say. Their comments offer insights into U.S. foreign policy that many American observers might not get at home. Much of the Israeli media commentary is conducted in Hebrew, but key outlets ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=724 On October 13, 2004 Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly was sued for sexual harassment by Fox News producer Andrea Mackris. Now, almost five years later, RuggedReporter has obtained the infamous tape recording. You can hear, word for word, what O'Reilly suggested to Mackris during a steamy late-night phone call. What ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=446 Now that Bush administration officials have launched a major campaign to persuade us that torture “worked,” perhaps it’s worth recalling that George W. Bush’s own FBI director said in an interview last year that he wasn’t aware of a single planned terror attack on America that had been foiled by ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=706 The Bush administration did not inform Congress that it had waterboarded detainees in classified briefings, after the agency had already done so, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged Thursday. Pelosi told reporters that the administration officials only told her and those in a classified briefing in the fall of 2002 that ... http://ruggedreporter.com/?p=702