Category: Misc

Republican congressional leaders told President Bush Thursday the House and Senate both appear ready to block a Dubai-owned company from taking over operations at several U.S. ports, GOP officials said.

Source: Yahoo News The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is to close and its prisoners housed elsewhere, according to US military sources. The US military are expected to close Abu Ghraib prison within three months. They plan to transfer some 4,500 prisoners to other jails in Iraq, a military spokesman said. The prison in […]

NANTES, France (Reuters) – An unemployed teacher armed with a gun took 20 pupils and three adults hostage at a school in western France on Thursday, demanding to talk to the media about his job problems, local officials said.Police surrounded the secondary school in the town of Sable-sur-Sarthe where the 33-year-old man barricaded the pupils […]

BradBlog has been one of the greatest assets of the blogosphere. His in depth investigative blogging into election problems has opened our eyes more the the threats facing our democracy. His top article right now is another great addition to his dossier Sancho, the Election Supervisor of Leon County, Florida who exposed a number of […]

OK I have to really get something off my chest. The arrest of those three college students arrested in Alabama has really got me thinking. I pointed out in my original post on the subject how it had become a right wing conspiracy theory. If you frequent political forums, like I do, then you would […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran is the No. 1 challenge to the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday after the Islamic republic’s leadership vowed no compromise with the West in a standoff over its nuclear programs.

PARENTS..let this be a lesson to you: TEL AVIV (AFP) – An Israeli teenager was convicted in Tel Aviv of murdering his mother because she refused to buy him a personal computer, a judicial source said. The Tel Aviv district court ruled that 19-year-old Yivgeni Selastihin strangled and stabbed to death his mother, Ella, 42, […]

The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday. Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants […]

Tony Blair’s failure to improve the procedures for investigating claims of ministerial misconduct is undermining his own government, the sleaze watchdog has warned. Following the scandal surrounding culture secretary Tessa Jowell and the investigation into her conduct by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the committee on standards in public life has called for a tightening up of […]

GET TYPING GUYS…. you never know, you might just make a name for youself: LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s first literary prize for books based on blogs unveiled its shortlist of finalists on Wednesday, with a call girl and an amateur chef’s cooking odyssey among the contenders. The Blooker Prize, whose name gives a nod […]