In today’s challenging real estate environment, apartment owners and home owners and their brokers and realtors are all looking for ways to get prospective tenants

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For individuals who have a minimum of $100,000 that they can put aside for at least seven years until after age 59.5, Farmers Insurance is

I wonder if President Obama, being the trailblazer he is, might “think out of the box” when it comes to appointing a new U.S. Supreme

The irony is that, in reality, those Iranians seeking to limit the influence of corrupt clergymen in Iran (and in the process the co-incident/necessary lawlessness that

One should be careful of the company one keeps and the proteges one gathers about themselves, for that can define a person’s character and reputation.

Is Iran really “open for business”, a land of opportunity, and a safe venue for investing (including for international investors)?  Well, there is the old

Sitting around the kitchen table, my father told me that his uncle told him that in discussions his uncle had engaged in with the late Ayatollah Dr.

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Could the prospect of tens of thousands of highly educated and trained American-Iranians, reeling from the economic depression sweeping the United States, and looking to

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Lest we forget, or lest the young ones don’t know: in April 1991 and August 1991, Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Iran’s then president, in conjunction with Ali Fallahian,

While this may surprise most, I actually think that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election in the presidential race, and that it was not necessary for

I have alot of respect for those who care for and feel for orphans, and as such I would vote for that presidential candidate who has

I just spent the last couple of hours getting a detailed history of the Russian Revolution and the dictatorship of Josef Stalin, courtesy of Wikepedia,

When I think of superior long-term investing in todays world and the world for the next few generations, I think of one word and two

Fixing Afghanistan is as simple as six words: projecting central government control and authority.  The formula for doing so rests in giving all the monetary

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Macrovision (MVSN, market cap: $1.3 billion), the parent company of Gemstar-TVGuide, and its CEO, Fred Amoroso, do not want to engage in constructive dialogue.  They

Diversify, Diversify, Diversify.  Western Europe needs to diversify it sources of natural gas or risk freezing itself and its citizenry because of its exclusive reliance

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I had heard much about a book titled, “Profits of War” (translated into farsi, under the title “Pol-e-Khoon”) written in 1992 by a fugitive Israeli-Iranian

Ayatollah Khomeini gave his famous “capitulation” speech years before I was born, but out of curiosity I chose to read his 1963 call recently.  What caught my attention

Those with cash on the sidelines can fill the void created by the bank liquidity and credit crisis, and earn equity returns of as high

There are some who ask: when will the legitimate and respected religious leaders like Grand Ayatollah Sistani end their silence, and challenge the corruption and