North Korea has test fired a seventh missile and the Security Council is now getting ready for an emergency session regarding the tensions: The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session Wednesday morning to discuss at Japan’s request North Korea’s missile tests, officials said. Outraged over the pre-dawn test-firing of six missiles by its […]
Bush has really proven that he doesn’t spend that much time “worrying about” Bin Laden: The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and […]
Wired Blog has a very interesting article up about the Net Neutrality amendment that is in a tie right now in the Senate Commerce Committee. The following are some excerpts of what Senator Ted Stevens (R-AL) had to say about it. There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie […]
A prime example of the cataclysmic damage George W. Bush has done to the nation’s image, as perceived by the rest of the world can be seen in this article: Britons have never had such a low opinion of the leadership of the United States, a YouGov poll shows. As Americans prepare to celebrate the […]
This is the final proof that Joe Lieberman does not care about the Democratic Party: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is to announce today he will petition for a place on the November ballot as an “independent Democrat,” giving him a chance to stay alive politically should he lose an Aug. 8 primary for the Democratic […]
After key members of the lunatic right’s internet force took to the binary world this weekend to launch their attack on the New York Times Travel Section for publishing an article talking about St. Michaels, Md. last week, things have gotten ugly. Glenn Greenwald has been all over this story. From their original claims that […]
This really seems like the Bush/Gore debacle all over again: Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election result as official returns showed him ahead of his left-wing rival. Calderon said his lead was now “irreversible” because he had an advantage of more than 400,000 votes over Andres […]
After some hard computer snooping, I have uncovered a citizenship test completed by George W. Bush. Apparently he wanted to try the waters and see how hard it was for illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens. The answers are interesting. The results appear below the fold. What are the colors of our flag? Republican, White […]
Will we hear the outrage on this story? Money transfer agencies like Western Union have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed, company officials said. In one example, an Indian driver here said Western Union prevented him from sending […]