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Chinese Jeans Anger Iranians

A Chinese clothing manufacturer has caused a stir in Iran by selling jeans with a sentence from the Qur'an inscribed on them. The sentence reads "In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful"...

Fashion pirates find gold in stylish fakes

To good to be true... only for people who want to look "haute couture" " When stylish, metropolitan women stroll along with a Louis Vuitton Pleaty bag, they exude an air of high class, impeccable taste and...

Hundreds of Taliban killed in battle

One can only hope normalcy will return top Kandahar, as the Taliban have been terminated in this region for now."ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban fighters have been killed or wounded after...

Ohio man could go to jail for cheating in church blackjack game

A man in Ohio got caught cheating during church-sponsored game of blackjack.  He now faces up to two years in jail!"COLUMBUS -- A jury has convicted a sports bookmaker in central Ohio of cheating during a...

Halliburton reported revenue in 2007. Wake up people

$15.3 billion.  So not only is our economy being drained by a war on terror that is spawning more anti-american sentiment than ever, our money is going into the pockets of our executive branch and their friends/family.

Ron Paul Campaign Pockets $6 million in One Day From Boston Tea Party Re-Enac...

Blowing away his previous record (and anyone else's) well before the primaries could very well give Ron Paul's campaign a substantial push. It will be interesting to see where his very forward-thinking election...

California lowriders become art, big business

I've always been a fan of lowriders.  Not so good with the kids car seats but hard to beat their style.  Maybe I'll trade in the kids and get myself one in the name of art."LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!)...

Post details: A violation of state law is not a per se Fourth Amendment viola...

"An arrest in Oklahoma by Arkansas officials on an Arkansas arrest warrant violated the laws of both states, and, while a violation of state law may not be a constitutional violation, it could still be unreasonable, and that would make it violate the Fourth Amendment....

Gimme Shelter: The Hout Bay Land List

The hot-button issue of land rights has taken a step forward. Interestingly, some of the land marked for consideration is not in the immediate vicinity of Hout Bay, no doubt pleasing the NIMBY* element of the...

Retiring in BC

"British Columbia’s climate, lifestyle and recreation properties are attracting increasing numbers of baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1965, from across Canada, says the BC chapter of...

Golf Blogger: Augusta course is "tough, hard, and fast"

I used to shoot a pretty good game before I tore a hamstring, but I know that this course would have torn my ego to shreds.  The blogger at Golf Digest seems to have a cool analytical view of the course...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D....

Rumsfeld Filled His Pockets with Pyongyang's Nuclear Loot

"It's a well-known fact--oft detailed in this column--that the boys in the Bush Regime swing both ways. We speak, of course, of their proclivity--their apparently uncontrollable craving--for stuffing their trousers with loot from both sides of whatever war or military crisis...

BURBERRY - AGAIN

"THE BURBERRY icons collection, launched for autumn/winter 2006-7, was one of the most covetable last season, with the Manor bag featuring on the arms of both Kate Moss and Kate Middleton, no less. And for spring/summer 2007 it's looking even better, with the Beaton bag (as...

Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?

"After Vietnam, the dominoes did not fall. What that tells us about this war. To me, the relentless mud slide of insurgency and civil war in Iraq is leading to unacceptable strategic disaster for the U.S. There appear to be no viable paths to follow in order to avoid it....

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