CNN poll: Most say Founding Fathers wouldn't be impressed

"(CNN) -- How would the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin feel about the way the United States has turned out 232 years after declaring its independence? ...

Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One

" ........Comparing Iran with the 1939 Nazi Germany is ridiculous. Germany was a powerful, industrialized nation that had been defeated in World War I. It had grievances against the victors who had humiliated it. Germany's culture was such that many Germans blindly...

Iraqi Chicken Farmers Get Jumpstart With Egg Delivery

" BAGHDAD, April 28, 2008 – Chicken farmers in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, received the jumpstart their industry needed with the arrival of 45,000 eggs, each ready for hatching. Army Capt. Benjamin Neusse, a civil military operations officer with 3rd...

Zap! Scientists use Lasers to Cause Lightning Storms

This is the coolest thing I've heard in a while, scientists have used lasers to trigger electrical activity in clouds. I can just imagine a team of scientists in white gowns firing a big cannon into a cloud. Zap!"A...

146 Canadian Sex Tourists charged in Child Sex

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanadian Child Molestors certainly  feeling quite smug about plying their horrendous acts against children overseas in asian countries know if caught, their Canadian...

Map shows toll on world's oceans

The BBC is reporting on the environmental devastation being wrought on the world's oceans. View the map here."Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed...

Protesters held on whaling ship

High drama on the high seas continues: "Japanese whalers are holding two anti-whaling activists who leapt aboard a Japanese ship near Antarctica. The Japanese fleet is being followed by environmental campaigners, who...

Aristocrat's Lexus car badly damaged in frenzied sexual attack - by a randy p...

"Visitors to a stately home have been warned to keep away from a randy peacock after he caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a car he mistook for a mate. The amorous bird swooped on the "peacock blue" Lexus car in the grounds of eccentric aristocrat Sir Benjamin...

Netanyahu says Israel carried out Syria air raid, he backed it

Anonymous source revealed that the Israeli air strike in the northern region of Syria was to send Damascus a message regarding their support of Hezbollah."Opposition leader and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin...

Your Going To Die So Live With It

 "Every morning I wake up is a good day. I figure why go through life worried about when I’m going to die. But the world we live in is obsessed with death and what will kill you. So sometimes it’s just best...

Ben Franklin Gets High-Tech Makeover in New $100 Bill

"WASHINGTON — After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come. A new security thread has been...

Rock Star Could Be Baronet's Heir

"A Somerset aristocrat searching for an heir to his 13th Century £7.5m mansion thinks an American rock star is the man for the job. Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade, 59, has spent 18 months looking for a relation prepared...

Music and Lyrics: Hip-hop "artists" are no better than Imus

"Music and Lyrics Hip-hop "artists" are no better than Imus. BY JIM FUSILLI Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT In case you missed it, on Friday afternoon the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), an advocacy group for the rap and hip-hop industry, issued a press release...

Differentiating between Don Imus & Hip Hop: A Statement from Russell Simmons ...

Nothing like a little hiphopcrisy - apparently Imus has a different ho than Russel Simmons and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Summit. At the end of the day, whether someone picks up offensive slang from Imus or via a...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D....

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