Make your way to Almeria and enjoy the Spanish sunshine

"The Costa Almeria is one of those areas, and property investments here are showing returns well above the national Spanish average – a fact that has not been ignored by the Spanish authorities, to the extent that improvements to the local infrastructure and road networks...

Need tips to hide pot? Ex-cop has some for sale

"Frederick Moss, a law professor at Southern Methodist University, said Cooper appears to be protected by the First Amendment and probably cannot be charged with conspiracy or aiding and abetting because he has no direct relationship with the customers he counsels in how to...

Fire Guts Kingwood Mayor's Home

" May 9, 2007 West Virginia - The mayor of Kingwood came home to find his house on fire Monday morning. Fred Sonny Peddicord left Sandy's restaurant in Kingwood to stop at his home, at 210 1/2 Jackson St. He saw smoke pouring out of it and ran for the front door to save his...

Gonzales Is Roadkill. Let's make some stew

"Mark Levin says criticizing Alberto Gonzales is like clubbing a baby seal; calling him a weak man, incapable of defending himself. The growing acceptance among Republicans that Gonzales should go is disturbing to me. Not that I’m a great fan of the AG. It’s just that...

Working Smoke Detector Could Have Saved 4 In Southfield Fire

" February 27, 2007 Michigan - A nonworking smoke detector was blamed for the deaths of two mothers and their two young sons in a Southfield apartment Monday morning. Cassandra (Sandy) Motley, 23, and her 3-year-old son, Keyambe Motley, died of smoke inhalation, along with...

Out of Thin Air

"Out of Thin Air By David Roberts For 75 years, mountaineering’s greatest mystery has lingered: Did the doomed George Mallory and Andrew Irvine reach the summit of Everest 29 years before the first confirmed ascent? The stunning discovery of Mallory’s body helps answer...

9-11 Commission may not have perused pilfered papers in berger's pants

"WASHINGTON — Some classified documents that were unlawfully removed from the National Archives three years ago may never have reached their intended destination — the Sept. 11 commission, a House Republican report concluded Tuesday. The report contradicted Justice...

Worse than Watergate

Why is robbing national security documents less important than robbing campaign documents?"President Clinton’s Former National Security Advisor was caught stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives (before the 9/11 Commission could read them),...

More on Virgil Goode’s letter

"Liberal blogger Justin Rood is doing his best to stir up a reaction to Virgina Republican Virgil Goode’s immigration worries, outlined in a letter released earlier this week. I suspect he’s not going to have a lot of luck on the Friday before Christmas, but with an...

Metropolis retailers exceed holiday goals

"There is only two weeks of shopping left before Christmas. Retailers, like children this time of year, wish for a big bundle this holiday season. What customers purchase over the holidays can account for up to 40-percent of their annual sales. So far, it seems, this season...

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

"Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to...