You will be surprised at the number of personal factors that can drive the cost of your auto insurance and that many a time, it is you who can rein in and avoid some extra money going away from you via its premiums. Of course, the basic pricing cannot change, but it would certainly help if you get an idea about the above-mentioned factors.

On 7 October 2001, the opening phase of "Operation Enduring Freedom" U.S. military campaign began, which quickly drove the Taliban and its al-Qaida affiliates from Kabul on 12 November.

Since then, 1,760 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan along with 942 International Security Assistance Force soldiers, a total of 2,702 foreign military dead, with no end in sight.

The past two decades since the 1991 collapse of Communism have seen the Russian Federation and the U.S. involved in an updated version of the 19th century’s “Great Game’ for mastery in Eurasia over the debris field of the former USSR.

by Gerald F. Seib - WSJ
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Two basic facts will tell you most of what you need to know about the political picture today.

Fact One: The unemployment rate is the most important of all leading political indicators.