Police Surround Home in Seattle After 4 Officers shot at Parkland

Police, who have been searching for a person of interest in the shooting of four police officers near McChord AFB early Sunday morning, are surrounding a home in Seattle this morning.  The standoff started...

St. Andrew's day in Scotland, but who's celebrating?

It's St. Andrew's day in Scotland, Russia, Greece and Romania. We Scots have made it our national day.One day a year we get to celebrate who we are, where we come from and what it means to be Scottish.Great I...

ADL, Glenn Beck, and pulling the plug

LA Times asks,  "Who's Watching Glenn Beck?"   Last week,  a columnist for the LA Times wrote a piece on Glenn Beck,  comparing the Fox News pundit to   FDR Depression era radio...

Gays question Rick Warren's duplicity on Uganda bill, Prop 8

BOTH SIDES CLAIM SEXUAL FASCISM IN PROGRESSIVE AMERICA  The Reverend Rick Warren has come under extreme suspicion within the gay community.  His involvement with Ugandan Pastor Martin Ssempa,  who...

Pet Shelters in Central Valley Increase Euthanasia Rates

Pet shelters in the Central Valley of California have been increasing their euthanasia rates because of the overwhelming increase in number of less adoptable animals being brought in for adoption. Nationwide, about...

The Top 8 Winners Of Obamanomics

"“Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich.” That’s the starting point of my brother Tim Carney's new book released today, titled Obamanomics, How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and...

Gay, Male, and Black in America: One Blogger shines his light

AFRICAN AMERICAN GAY BLOGGER IS A BEACON FOR COMMUNITY Living Out Loud with Dairan  is an award-winning  blog by a gay African American male,   and covers current events from the perspective of...

An Italian Christmas Tradition and Pizzette for dessert

There are those things that you always associate with memories of special events.  Christmas wouldn't be the same without pizzette on our biscotti tray. Italian cookies are the main event Christmas Eve and Day...

PLP PATI bill, a fraud:l gives Ewart Brown exclusive powers

"The Premier would have the power to exclude any public authority from freedom of information without the approval of MPs under a proposed new law. "Yet another fraud  ,pretending to be transparent,paying...

political media crap

Sorry but I got to say it, crap the worst form of creative journalism I have ever seen for some time. " WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week...

Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law days before UN Climate Negotiation

Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed "anti-riot law", less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations...

Obama issues Afghan war plan to military officials

President Obama ordered top military leaders to begin carrying out his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, a move that is believed to include the deployment of more than 30,000 additional troops into the 8-year-old conflict, the White House confirmed Monday. In a 5 p.m....

Who is Maurice Clemmons? Criminal History of Cop Killer

Maurice Clemmons, 37, has a long criminal history which include at least 13 felony convictions, including aggravated robbery and theft, third-degree assault, and second-degree rape of a child. Clemmons is now...

Banks With The Biggest Exposure to The UAE

Banks With The Biggest Exposure to The UAEfrom LEAP/Europe 2020 by CNBC Worries about exposure to debt problems in Dubai have rattled bank share prices since Wednesday after Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates federation, asked to delay payment on debts of two flagship...

Swedish Woman Agneta Westlund Killed By Elk, Not Husband

Police have come to the conclusion that Agneta Westlund, a woman from the Swedish town of  Loftahammer who died last year, was actually killed by an elk and not her husband. While husband Ingemar Westlund was...

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