Interesting story about the Internet, Megan's Law, privacy, and Vigilante justice. Does the story from the LA Times, raise more questions than it answers?
Lake County prosecutors have investigated the possibility that information in the Internet database might have been the...
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From the Sun UK via the Drudge Report:
Gordon Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.”
The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two...
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This is an important and timely political news story. It is not presented to advocate for or against Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee.
From the Guardian, via AP:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general...
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From the New York Times:
A Hong Kong-registered oil tanker leaked 10,810 tons, or 66,000 barrels, of crude oil off South Korea’s stormy west coast today, officials said, in what was estimated to be the...
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Iran is actively killing our soldiers world-wide, is developing ballistic technology, enriching uranium, and threatening to "Wipe Israel off the Map."
Why study History? We are doomed to repeat the horrors of it. WWIII redux. From the Long War Journal:
Iran's...
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From the Guardian:
George Bush today ruled out a change in Washington's Iran policy following the declassification yesterday of a US intelligence report that concluded Tehran had abandoned its nuclear weapons...
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To what level has our media stooped to, for this to occur? This is beyond the level of "reasonable" and "tolerable" and is quickly taking us as a nation into the abyss.
And it is totally pathetic, and dangerous, especially during a time of war and unprecedented global...
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The irony either wants to make you laugh or cry--on various film, t.v., radio, video, Internet, and other media outlets, the words like "bitch" and "ho," have been considered...
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A self-serving agenda was set for the Republican presidential debates.
The United States is at war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the economy is writhing like a snake with a broken back, oil prices...
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From the Financial Times:
The “snooty” attitude of bankers and financiers who thought they were cleverer than everyone else is largely to blame for the global credit squeeze “disaster”, Germany’s finance minister has said.
In an interview with the Financial...
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And according to the Wall Street Journal, the "Rich" well they just "Don't Trust Their Advisers."
The wealthy should be relying more than ever on their financial advisers.
Investing, especially for the rich, has become ever more complicated. The well-heeled used to be...
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From the Drudge Report:
"America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide."The...
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Goldman says the Cost Of The Crunch Is $2 Trillion.
The firm's economic team put a $2 trillion price tag on the ultimate economic cost of the credit crunch, including $400 billion in losses directly tied to mortgages--well north of recent estimates by economists,...
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The warning was overheard at an oil producing countries’ session Riyadh over an open microphone in a private meeting in reply to a proposal from Venezuela and Iran to discuss a currency basket for pricing crude. Prince Saud said: “My feeling is that the mere mention that...
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The Wall Street bloodbath gains more momentum; just when you thought it was "safe" to breathe--a metaphor, to be sure--no offense, Mr. Al Gore:
E*Trade Financial shares hit rock bottom at the open, and have since...
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