Republicans and Democrats Call for Open Debates

People representing both parties have signed a letter calling for McCain and Obama to commit to more open debates. The two main points are allowing the footage of the debates to be used freely, as well as...

Metrolink Engineer May Have Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash

"r 12, 2008CHATSWORTH -- According to preliminary reports, the Metrolink engineer may have been text messaging from the cab of the train using a cellular telephone moments before the devastating crash. The...

Paranormal group says photo is dead soldier's ghost

Well okay. Could be anything, right?  Still, it sure looks like a ghost."A ghostly figure, supposedly the spirit of a dead soldier from a key battle in the English Civil War, has been captured on film by a...

Indigenous Solutions: The Free Market, Free Trade and Free Enterprise Traditions

" George B.N. Ayittey The Free Market, Free Trade and Free Enterprise Traditions Africa's indigenous economic system is probably the area least understood. The myth...

BA Pulls Terminal 5 Ad Campaign During "Meltdown"

My advice for anyone travelling out of Heathrow's new Terminal 5:  make alternate arrangements. massive delays, cancellations and baggage losses plague the multi-billion-pound terminal; even the elevators...

Whisper of Madness » Blog Archive » Hosni Mubarak Dead?

More rumours are abound of a dictator on his last legs.  Is something going around?  - The Angryindian-------------------------------------------------"Whisper of Madness » Blog Archive » Hosni Mubarak...

Grow Up, Middle East!

    Ahh, indeed well said by a very reputable and credentialed source."August 02, 2007 Grow Up, Middle East! By Victor Davis Hanson Radical Islamists love to scream about the "decadent" West....

Vivoleum: a new power source made from dead people?

"By the time candles supposedly made from remains of a deceased ExxonMobil janitor named Reggie Watts were handed out, an audience of oil and gas professionals attending a keynote luncheon at Calgary's Gas and Oil...

TSA Loses Hard Drive With Sensitive Data

The Transportation Security Administration is an arm of the Dept. of Homeland Security, and, as such, should not be in the business of losing hard drives. And yet.  "The Transportation Security Administration...

Guernsey UFO - latest

" Guernsey UFO.There can always be a good mundane 'explanation' for any visual document in debunking terms - "it's CGI" or "why did the camera stop/start, focus/not focus etc,. (delete as appropriate ) or I've even seen "it's too good to be true." No one's making any...

RIAA Lawsuits: Oklahoma Mother Bites Back

The Recording Industry Association of America is into bullying people, so it was only a matter of time before somebody swung back... I'm not sure what real impact this will have on the RIAA's suing of their customers, but time will tell."In 2004, Debbie Foster was sued by the...

Look at the Light, Stay Awake

I saw a version of these lamps at Costco once; not really sure that there's anything viable behind the concept.  In the meantime, though, it looks like more "go pills"."All kinds of companies sell special lights that supposedly can wake up jet-lagged travelers -- or even...

After being gang raped by her village elders, Mukhtar fought back...

"Mukhtar Mai's story is as horrific as it is simple, and it is quickly told. On June 22, 2002, the council of her tiny village, on the southern fringes of the Punjab in Pakistan, ordered that she be gang raped as...

Zune Comes With Porn Value-Add

"Umm, this isn't exactly what we were suggesting, Microsoft, when we advised improving the Zune user experience.Brown_landscape_video_porn A Chicago-area mother reports that the supposedly new Zune she bought her 12-year-old daughter for Christmas was stuffed with...

Did The Vatican Steal Jesus' Foreskin?

Great article by David Farley on Slate about the theft of Jesus' foreskin from a priest's house in a small town near Rome." This wasn't just the residuum of any holy human—nor was it just any body part. It was the foreskin of Jesus Christ, the snipped-off tip of the...

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