Misleading Obama Attack Ad On Stem Cell Research

"ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) today issued the following statement on Barack Obama's misleading new radio ad on stem cell research, which is airing in the Philadelphia suburbs: "The fact is...

Social Media Sites that Deserve Your Affection

"Social Media Sites that Deserve Your Affection"

Cuba to abandon salary Parity

Change of leadership in Cuba has brought a whiff of changes. Cubans have realised benefits of free economy and as first step they allowed mobile phones. Now old system of same pay for everyone is going to be...

The Gas Prices We Deserve

Here's a great column from George Will. "Rising in the Senate on May 13, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, explained: "I rise to discuss rising energy prices." The president was heading to Saudi Arabia to seek an increase in its oil production, and Schumer's gorge was...

Liverpool newsagent shot dead defending his shop - Mirror.co.uk

A shopkeeper in Liverpool has been shot by an armed robber as he tried to defend his shop."A shopkeeper shot dead at his till had gone for a baseball bat to try to defend his small store.Father-of-six Abdo Saeed Al-Selwi, 47, who was blasted in the chest, is believed to have...

Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Leeds United

Disaster for Leeds, another year in League One." By Aimee Lewis Hayter scores his first goal for Doncaster since January James Hayter's...

Pope Benedict XVI tells bishops to fight sexual abuse

Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his explicit move to address the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic church in the United States. These directives to bishops come shortly after the pope said he was...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

BC Appeals Court Rewards Criminals for Bad Behaviour

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAgain, Criminals get the Accolades, while victims get the Knife blade, in a Justice system judged one of the worst in Crime versus Punishment across Canada and probably in...

Obama suggests Clinton show tax returns

" NEW ORLEANS - Democrat Barack Obama suggested Thursday that Hillary Rodham Clinton follow his lead and release her and her husband's income tax returns so the public can see where the $5 million she loaned her presidential campaign came from. ...

Top Weird Stories of 2007

"BERLIN (Reuters) - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird...

Reasons you should not pity the American homeless

"Basically they all feel that they deserve better and that they are not accountable in any way for where they are."

The year that changed everything for climate change

"PARIS: When the history of climate change is written, 2007 will deserve a chapter all to itself. In just 12 months, global warming has been elevated to the great challenge of our time, a cause for public and...

Canada Court Ruling: Responsible Journalism

A ruling allowing Journalists to be safe from harm in lawsuits against news organizations for reporting stories which rightly or wrongly defame people featured in their stories is being considered in the courts....

Fisk launches attack on ‘third rate journalism’

Journalists have got to stop ‘kow towing’ down to those in power if they are to do their job, according to veteran British war correspondent Robert Fisk."Fisk launches attack on ‘third rate...

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