Japanese man arrested on U.S. warrant for 1981 LA shooting

"LOS ANGELES—More than a quarter of a century after an infamous downtown shooting that left a tourist dead and sparked an international furor, a Japanese businessman has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said."

University of British Columbia Political Correctness Gone "Friggin Insane"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Tofu Wheat Grass set at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for a better word have lost their friggin mind.  Using public funds for renovating 391 public...

U.N. Panel OKs Measure on Islam

"GENEVA — Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion _ a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim...

AttorneyGate -- Bush, Nixon, and A Constitutional Crisis

"It's even odds at this point if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will make it past Friday without filing for unemployment. The 24-Hour Cable News Channels are covering "Attorneygate" almost non-stop, and yet the...

Understanding Ann -- Coulter and the Rhetoric of Hate

"Ann Coulter ignited the latest firestorm of her career last week when she dismissed John Edwards as a "faggot" on national television. As throngs of bigoted conservative fanboys cheered Coulter's most recent zinger...

Silencing of a Speech Causes a Furor

The fracas, which came just weeks after the president of Iran was invited to speak at Columbia and then told not to come, was captured live by Columbia’s student-run television station, CTV, as well as by two...

Amid furor over Iraq report, calls to release another

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As political debate churned over an intelligence report released Tuesday, a top Democrat called for the release of a second, new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq that she says "paints a grim picture." The White House denied a charge by Rep. Jane...

How the Pope's PR Machinery Failed

One week after Pope Benedict XVI crashed onto the front pages with his controversial remarks on Islam, two central questions hang over the Holy See: How did that inflammatory quote get into the speech in the first place, and how do we get him out of this fix (and off the...

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