The Lebanese army is doing it's best to keep the country from erupting
into an all-out civil war, but it's proving to be an uphill battle."BEIRUT (AFP) — Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday,...
created by Phil Skipper | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 366 views | 12 recommendations | 5 comments
"CLEVELAND—She’s one of 59 individuals designated in Ohio as a “vexatious litigator”. Now she sits in Cuyahoga County Jail awaiting transport to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, because she filed a civil rights claim"
Wow, tough crowd for Clinton in West Virginia. It will be interesting to see how long she stays in now that conventional logic remains that her candidacy is over."Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s greatest gift...
created by Dave Keating | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 260 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Fortunately, it is not nearly as bad here in Ireland (yet) ... how is it where you live? I am often asked to cease taking photographs but no one asks for my permission to be videoed (I am referring to street...
created by infomatique | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 486 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
It appears that the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), will soon be abolished by the Texas legislature. After all the bad publicity that TYC management brought upon itself when the statewide corruption and mismanagement was exposed, the legislature feels it has no other choice....
created by RChance | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 2039 views | 17 recommendations | 6 comments
"TOKYO — A Japanese civil servant was demoted for logging more than 780,000 hits on pornographic Web sites on his office computer over nine months, an official said Friday. The man, a Kinokawa city government employee in western Japan, visited porn...
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"As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems. Weighed down by record-low ratings at the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” and by reports suggesting she will leave that post two years before her multimillion-dollar contract expires, Couric now has civil...
created by urbano411 | 5 years ago 402 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
I remember not so long ago when Immigration was the central issue driving the political vehicle of CHANGE. Oh, how true. Things CHANGE! The truth is that when everyone recouperates from this wonderful Black & White campaign that has left the democratic party Black &...
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" Just when it seemed that the Chris Gardner story was the most inspirational story I'd come across, here's an entrepreneur's story that may even be more inspiring. I came across this interesting blog post while surfing the blogosphere today. It is about an...
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" 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...
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" BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2008 – Several hundred citizens from a village near Tag Ab Valley in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province swarmed a makeshift hospital April 19 during a village medical outreach hosted by Task Force Gladiator servicemembers....
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Fouad al-Farhan, the "godfather of Saudi bloggers", is free after four months in prison without charges. Though Saudi Arabia touts its modernization under King Abdullah, such persecution does not paint so pretty a...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 217 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Hundreds of people turned up for a protest in the streets of New York today against the decision to clear all three officers in the shooting death of Sean Bell.The decision to clear the officers was revealed...
created by Amy Judd | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 480 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
The intent of a 1993 federal law is clear: take voter registration drives to the people, especially those who use government assistance offices (welfare, food stamps) as well as driver's license offices. Now, however, ACORN, the umbrella activist group, says that Missouri...