PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

Dear Murderer, You killed one person, got away with it, and then killed again. You are probably going to get away with this murder too. You ...

This is the first sentence in The Koran: "This book is not to be doubted." This establishment of infallibility is then followed, ...

On routine patrol, a uniformed officer noticed a blood- stained, naked man carrying something in his hand, walking alongside I-70, in broad...

"GET DOWN, YOU DAMN FOOL, BEFORE YOU GET SHOT!" -A Union 6th Corps captain to an insouciant civilian who kept exposing his head to...

For two months in late Spring 1862, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson repeatedly out-thought, out- maneuvered, and out- g...

to: publocc@gmail.com date: Jan 9, 2008 6:33 PM subject: thanks mailed-by xu3331@hotmail.com Hi Mr. Harris, thanks for your hard working on...

Entitled A Few Words from the Heart, below are excerpts: Mr. Harris: I got your response and I read it again and again; so you are a prosecu...

"Look at them Yankee sons of bitches, loading their guns under water! What sort of critters be they, anyhow?" -One Confederate sol...

Song, you tease. About three weeks ago, I called you twice at your U.S. phone number, and both times you had your phone connected to ...

Ahh, the warmth of the holiday season. These party girls include Song Yaowu (second from left), and Liu Jin (third from left). That d...

Public Occurrences has been read by people in virtually every country on earth. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola , Argentina, Aruba...

This is a photograph of Dr. Lisa Randall from the August, 2007 issue of Vogue . She is one of the most accomplished scientists in the worl...

"The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer." - Herman Haupt, Chief of U.S. Military Rail Roads...

MUSHARRAF: DEFECTIVE SUN ROOF MANUFACTURER IDENTIFIED . "Investigators with our Product Safety Bureau have identified the factory that ...

MUSHARRAF ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE SUN ROOF RECALL "We must restore confidence in the safety of Pakistini sun roofs," said the Preside...

THE SUN ROOF?

In the long-ago Cold War, America "tilted" toward Pakistan in its continuous subcontinent feud with India. Our countries have rema...

At his trial in Israel in 1961 Adolph Eichmann defended himself as someone who "never did anything great or small, without obtaining in...

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We have to understand our fellow man and their perspectives; we have to take into account their reality. Now, to you and me, and anyone ...

Here we see more of the results of the youthful idealism of the Cultural Revolution celebrated by Carma Hinton, Weili Ye, Liu Jin, and...Oh...

Above are photographs of the corpses of human beings murdered during the Cultural Revolution. As can be seen they were splashed unabashe...

We are all Pittsburghers "To encourage knowledge of affairs at home and abroad; to cure the spirit of lying which prevails amongst u...

William Saletan, a self-described "liberal Republican," wrote in Slate this past Sunday that there are indeed genetic differences...

This second-favorite of our holidays falls this year on a bad date in our history, the memories of which some of us still have.

Earlier today two teams of scientists announced that they had resolved an ethical dilemma that had threatened the use of stem cells to s...

Since posting the below at 11:22 this morning I have been almost constantly at work on China so I was able to work as hard today as I ever ...

September is back-to-school month and with that exciting and portentous time often comes school anniversary celebrations. Such wa...