Rudy Carrera

Could this 17-meter long ‘super-whale’ be the Leviathan mentioned in the Bible? Scientists believe this whale was agressive, feeding on other whales, unlike the more docile sperm whales of today. Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent of BBC News, reports more on the find here.

Kyl Charges – Obama Won’t Secure Border Without Amnesty for Illegals – By PipeLineNews.org. – Looks like Senator John Kyl outed President Obama on playing games with the immigration issue. The whole “liar, liar, pants of fire” White House staffers are trying to paint the venerable Arizona senator with aren’t exactly dripping with credibility. Either Kyl or Obama is a liar. I know where I’m placing my money. The video is below:

Who Told Obama Offshore Drilling is ‘Absolutely Safe’? – By Byron York, TownHall.com. No one in their right mind would tell the POTUS that. The reality is that the mess in the Gulf of Mexico bears the messy paw prints of wacko environmentalists who insist oil companies drill farther and farther out at sea. This DOES NOT mean I am pleased with the morons at BP, just in case someone feels the need to say I’m a big-oil shill.

Kingdom of Lies – By Michael Gerson, TownHall.com. Michael Gerson writes on the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea.

Obama’s Unpopular in the Middle East! – By Greg Scoblete, Real Clear World. So much for hope and change. The POTUS gets a FAIL in the Middle East.

Say what? Afghanistan has $1 trillion in untapped mineral resources? – By Blake Hounshell, Foreign Policy. There’s a reason to be skeptical about this report, but if it means good for the country, so be it.

Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban – By Dexter Filkins, New York Times. Karzai is a two-faced rat. It’s a shame Abdullah Abdullah didn’t win the election. He may have been a more transparent leader.

Swedish Illusions – By Herb London, TownHall.com. The Swedes haven’t quite learned that paying high taxes doesn’t guarantee safety from their immigrant communities.

Iran cleric says dogs “unclean”, not to be kept as pets – By Robin Pomeroy, Reuters. Any religion which hates dogs isn’t worth much to me.

Zahi Hawass, the legendary Egyptian archaeologist, and his team have scored a large find in Egypt. 57 ancient tombs have been unearthed, and look the be nearly 5,000 years old.

Bryn Mawr College has a blog covering classical studies, including archaeology.  Especially interesting is The Medieval Review, covering history from the Middle Ages in a scholarly fashion.

From Reuters’ Cairo Office:

New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt’s chief archaeologist said on Sunday.

Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts.

“These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves,” Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement.

“If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.”

He said the collection of workers’ tombs, some of which were found in the 1990s, were among the most significant finds in the 20th and 21st centuries. They belonged to workers who built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre.

Hawass had earlier found graffiti on the walls from workers calling themselves “friends of Khufu” — another sign that they were not slaves.

The tombs, on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo, are 4,510 years old and lie at the entrance of a one-km (half mile)-long necropolis.

Hawass said evidence had been found showing that farmers in the Delta and Upper Egypt had sent 21 buffalo and 23 sheep to the plateau every day to feed the builders, believed to number around 10,000 — or about a tenth of Greek historian Herodotus’s estimate of 100,000.

These farmers were exempted from paying taxes to the government of ancient Egypt — evidence that he said underscored the fact they were participating in a national project.

The first discovery of workers’ tombs in 1990 came about accidentally when a horse stumbled on a brick structure 10 meters (yards) away from the burial area.

(Writing by Marwa Awad; Editing by Alison Williams and Michael Roddy)