BC: 3,600 ready to roll in Bike to Work Week

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBritish Columbia is gearing up for Bike to Work Week and by the price of gas reaching upwards of $6.00 a gallon, so using your bike is pretty much a given by many who...

Mugabe's Hour-Long Tirade Against Britain

Despite widespread international criticism of his regime, Robert Mugabe fired back on Thursday with an hour-long speech attack on Britain. "President Mugabe celebrated Zimbabwe’s Independence Day yesterday...

Jessie Jackson: Obama "acting like he's white"

Is the master of race baiting and extortion turning his back on Obama? What did he mean by "acting white."  Is that as bad as a white person saying Obama was acting Black? Obama threatens Jacksons leadership...

Woman Charged For Sodomising Lover

"A Perth woman will go to trial next year accused of handcuffing her soldier lover to a chair and sodomising him with a sex toy in an alleged hour-long sex attack. Nicola Clunies-Ross, 19, allegedly lured the Darwin-based soldier, also 19, to her East Perth home on October...

Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S ...

By Kim Zetter"Who would have thought that Manila sweatshops would figure prominently in the manufacture of U.S. voting machines? It turns out that Election Systems & Software, one of the top voting machine...

Silenced Venezuelan TV station moves to YouTube

"CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) -- Radio Caracas Television, the station silenced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has found a way to continue its daily broadcasts -- on YouTube, the popular video Web site. Although...

Dan Rather at SXSW: Journalism is gutless, spineless

Dan Rather, formerly of CBS (he left last year due to well publicized scandal), now of HDNet, was the keynote speaker at this year's SXSW Interactive. He spent much of his hour-long speech talking about the past,...

Singer Katie Melua Sets World Record; Performs Undersea Concert in Norway

"Singer Katie Melua set a world deep-water record by performing a concert 994 feet under the North Sea in the leg of an oil platform, the rig's operator said Tuesday."

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