A Standard for Leadership

"Jamie Lee Curtis, in a thank you letter to Barack Obama, sets a fantastic standard for what leaders should be, using the words of Rudyard Kipling’s If: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all...

the longest hair

"When Jean Burgess's pals told her it was high time she let her hair down to celebrate her 70th birthday, she did just that - all FIVE FEET and six inches of it.As the pretty pensioner hasn't had her locks lopped...

Do speed cameras work?

Speed cameras - are they just a cash cow or do they really help prevent accidents? Accidents are caused by many factors but speed certainly increases the risk of serious injury or death when an accident happens....

US 'insults' Berlusconi in press notes

"The Bush administration was forced yesterday to issue a grovelling apology to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after White House officials briefed the travelling US press corps that Berlusconi was...

MI6 admit keeping a dossier on Mohamed Al Fayed

"After their brief trip to Paris, Diana spent virtually every free moment with Dodi at his apartment in London’s Park Lane or together at Kensington Palace, which rankled the royals greatly. Prince Philip was...

Heath Ledger Died, Baptist States "God Don't Like Fag Movies".

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know I thought I knew every Crazy Religious Nut out there, somehow this oneslipped under the Radar. Shirley Phelps-Roper is one crazy Lady, from the pulpit of her...

I'm not an anti-Semite, TV preacher insists

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell this story is certainly worthy of mention on the Health and the Australian Deli Food channel.    National Post TORONTO - A fundamentalist...

Annoying but successful. Whither the beavers?

"Canada's most loved ad campaign is also one of the most hated. Month after month, Bell Canada's ubiquitous Frank and Gordon ads — starring two comedic, animated beavers — rank near the top of Leger...

VIVA BUSH

"New York Post VIVA BUSH By RALPH PETERS March 11, 2007 -- AS our president arrived in Brazil last week, the U.S. media made it sound as if Latin America had erupted in flames. TV news featured flying tear-gas canisters; a typical newspaper headline read, "Angry Crowds Rally...

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