Tag: signs

Obama signs an executive order closing Gitmo within a year. He also signed another one saying we will interrogate pursuant to the Geneva Conventions and Army field manual

Last night all the talk was about some “big news” coming from the McCain campaign this morning. Here is what Jonathan Martin said: McCain camp making news in the morning On what, they won’t say. “We’ll have something to talk about,” is all a campaign aide would allow. Check back again in this space or […]

The Politico broke it this morning: “I didn’t know I hit him. I feel terrible,” a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. “He’s not dead, that’s the main thing.” Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K streets Northwest, where the accident occurred, […]

General Motors posts the biggest automotive loss ever – $38.7 billion in 2007. This has sparked them to offer a new round of buyouts to 74,000 U.S. workers.

I certainly hope not: The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture. The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other […]

That’s what Bush is now “seeing”. Nothing like being late to the party.

Astonishing! As many as 20 percent of U.S. troops are coming home from war with signs they may have had a concussion, some of whom do not know they have symptoms that could be treated, Army officials said Thursday. Concussion is a common term for mild traumatic brain injury. While the Army is doing a […]

More signs that our economy is in trouble. Fears that America’s credit crisis is spilling over to hit consumer spending were fuelled yesterday after Tiffany, the upmarket jeweller, gave warning that sales over the Christmas period had fallen. Shares in Tiffany plunged by more than 10 per cent after it admitted that like-for-like sales during […]

Josh found this article: The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was […]

The tides are still turning in the country: Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski, whose perceived missteps over the past four years have turned him into one of the most unpopular governors in state history, soundly lost his bid for re-election after finishing last in a hotly contested three-way race for the Republican nomination. With 70 percent […]