By Peter Hamby and Ashley Killough
Washington (CNN) – GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul secured yet another straw poll victory Saturday.
The Texas congressman won 37% of the poll at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, sponsored by the Family Research Council, a social conservative group.
However, not all of those who voted for Paul in the straw poll were necessarily participants in the summit. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said 600 attendees registered just for Saturday. Paul ended up winning with 732 votes.
Paul has won a handful of straw polls …

The Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum, Chicago and
The American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria

Cordially Invite You to
to a Night of Archaeology in Bulgaria
WITH cocktails & CONVERSATION about the Collaborative Archaeological and Anthropological Program Sponsored
by The America for Bulgaria Foundation October 21, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Montgomery Ward Lecture Hall
The Field Museum,
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet — all of which changed how we consume content in the …

2nd Person Perishes in Bulgaria Ethnic Clashes

September 24, 2011
A 16-year-old suffering from heart problems passed away from stroke as a crowd ethnic Bulgarians gathered Saturday to protest against an influential Roma family in the village of Katunitsa.
Friday night a 19-year-old ethnic Bulgarian was reportedly purposefully run over and killed by a van driven by Roma, after which angry Bulgarians gathered around the houses of notorious clan leader Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro.
5 persons, including 3 police officers, have been injured in the ensuing clashes, when a vehicle driven …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — According to the Illinois Association of REALTORS® (IAR) latest report, statewide home sales (including single family and condominiums) in August 2011 totaled 10,622 homes sold, up 25.9 percent from 8,434 home sales in August 2010. The statewide median price in August was $149,000, down 5.4 percent from $157,500 in August 2010. The median is a typical market price where half the homes sold for more, half sold for less.
“Housing sales in Illinois and the nine-county Chicago region increased in August and positive year-to-year changes …

Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, in an interview for the political TV show “Face to Face” with host, Tsvetanka Rizova, September 4, 2011. (Video here):

TR: There was information, released by WikiLeaks, showing your position on GMO had been quite hypocritical.
BB: Released by whom?
TR: Hmm, I don’t know if you are aware that your ministers went to…
BB: I do not read them.
TR: Well, let me tell you. Your ministers…
BB: I do not read them.
TR: Your ministers went there and have said that due to public pressure we will not plant GMO …

Todor Zhivkov
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989.

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http://youtu.be/KlfzFaLpse8
This is part of  Todor Zhivkov’s speech to the leadership of the Bulgarian Communist Party just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Zhivkov’s removal from power.
Realizing the inevitable collapse of the socialist system, he tries to maintain his seat by changing his ideals completely.
„We will not get anywhere. If we keep going in this direction, we …

Updated July 10th, 2011
Organizing Sponsors: American Southeast Europe Chamber of Commerce (AmSECC) & Anderson Economic Group LLC
Partner Organizations: Consul General Offices of Southeast European Countries in Chicago, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
Purpose of Event: The American Southeast Europe Beverage Expo is designed to facilitate meaningful relationships between beverage producers and suppliers from the region of Southeast Europe and the United States. Companies from the SEE region will present their product to American beverage suppliers, importers, distributors, and investors. Also, this will be an opportunity …

Somewhat weakened but still ferocious, Hurricane Irene slammed into the North Carolina coast Saturday morning, drenching the coastline and starting an ominous northward march up the Atlantic Seaboard.
The massive Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Cape Lookout around 7:30 a.m. with top sustained winds of 85 miles per hour thrashing sand and water in every direction.
Kitty Hawk braced next for a nasty right hook from Irene.
Tens of thousands lose power in North Carolina
Ten of thousands of people in North Carolina were without power as reports of damage started filtering in.
About …

Today, Republican U.S. Congressman of the House of Representatives Ron Paul celebrates his 76th birthday. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 1935. Ron Paul is also a candidate for the Republican Party United States Presidential nomination for in the 2012 election.