UN's role in Gaza rises among the rubble

If the UN was not inGaza and Hamas wasleft to provide for the people, even if Israelallowed free transitGaza would still bea basket case. "Beyond being schooled by the U.N., Abu al-Eish and her seven...

Senate Could Reject Illinois Appointment, Minnesota Victor

Minnesota could be the bigger problem.Illinois likely will impeach Blagojevichand end that issue but the race in Minnesorais close, there could be recounts and it maycome to a partisan party line vote in the...

Obama illegally took, "Speaker Fees" while in the General Assembly

"Joe and Barack's Tax Problems. I was stunned to see some document showing Joe the Plumbers' tax problems on my 10pm (CT)newscast on the local NBC affiliate in Chicago on Thursday night. They have very little...

South African Zuma wins corruption case appeal

Jacob Zuma, former deputy President of South Africa is now free from his troubles. A South African court has ruled that a corruption case against ruling party leader Jacob Zuma cannot go ahead. Zuma was facing charges of corruption, fraud and money laundering...

Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia websites attacked

"Attacks that hit Georgian government and news websites after Russian tanks rolled across the border into South Ossettia last month have US officials concerned that bands of independent "cyber militias" will increasingly wield power over international relations. ...

Ex-Thai PM's wife guilty of fraud

The trouble for the business tycoon and former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra has not ended. After he made triumphant return from exile in March, he is constantly in news for wrong reasons.  In the military coup he was ousted and banned from contested...

UPDATE: Israel: Bulldozer Attack Kills 3 In Jerusalem

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Certainly Police gave the man every opportunity to stop his rampage with a 5 ton bulldozer, ending his spree with a bullet from an off duty soldier, after the crazed...

Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes

Has anyone noticed that this natural activity is NEVER added into the equation of Global Warming/Climate Change and the polar ice caps shrinking? It is only logical to see that volcanic activity spews CO2,...

Is Monica Lewinsky Ready to be President on Day One?

Can Monica Lewinsky be President on day One? Schedules reveal Hillary and Monica Spent Time together in White House Other Stories on NowPublic: Hillary 'Embellished' Bosnia Sniper Story Obama and Clinton are...

Saint-James from Compostela: The "Moor Slayer" and the Politically Correct

The Politically Correct chickened Santiago Matamoros (Moor Slayer) into James "Kill Begonias".That´s the idiocy of our time. Meanwhile some youngsters of that specific religion still put Europe in flames down in Denmark, France., ..."Saint-James from Compostela: The "Moor...

THE WAR ON ERROR

“Many of these points may strike a non-American audience as blindingly obvious. But it still requires political courage to make these arguments in the US at the moment” Gideon Rachman, The Financial Times,...

Does affirmative action hurt minorities?

"IMAGINE, FOR A MOMENT, that a program designed to aid disadvantaged students might, instead, be seriously undermining their performance. Imagine that the schools administering the programs were told that the programs might be having this boomerang effect -- but that no...

Clinton: Terrorist attack would help GOP

It seems even the conservative democrats are now willing to opine on the strange timing of major incidents under the Bush regime.  - The Angryindian------------------------"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- She says she is...

As Old Media Dies..NowPublic is Born

     Imagine hundreds of thousands of freethinking individuals scouring the net bringing the stories that matter to them back to the front of accessible, free, news page; all with a little help...

Activist organization responsible for 99% of FCC complaints

Talk about the squeaky wheel...  Here is an unbelievable example of astroturfing at its finest."According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8...

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