FHA Takes $4.6 BILLION Hit … It’s Just Taxpayer Money

"FHA Takes $4.6 BILLION Hit … It’s Just Taxpayer Money"Leave it to the government to come up with a home loan program where, if the buyer does not have the low 3% down payment normally required, the seller can pay that for them. So, from day one, the buyers have zero...

Size 16 woman places second at Miss England beauty competition

Chloe Marshall, a 17-year-old Miss England contender, was the first ever size 16 woman to reach the finals of Miss England beauty contest. Here is what happy Marshall had to say: " "I wanted to enter Miss England to...

The Alex Jones Show - On the Air Now!

"The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as...

Vancouver: "Ludicrous Offenders" putting strain on Police

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public COntributorThe Police will never win the war on crime, when a incompetenet justice system repeatedly releases criminals with little jail time back into our society. Having dozens of...

City Questions 9/11 Workers’ Claims of Illness

Nearly 10,000 workers who are suing New York City and its contractors for working at the ground zero site have had their medical records released today, and the outcome is that many are not as sick as their lawyers...

North Dakota town gets voter turnout of zero

For once it was true: one vote could have made all the difference." BISMARCK, N.D. - Pillsbury Mayor Darrel Brudevold said voter turnout in the city's primary election usually is fairly high. "I dare say a half-dozen people usually make it to the polls," he said. That...

67 London schools told to improve or be taken over

Ed Balls, the UK Schools Secretary, has threatened to close down 67 schools if they don't improve their testing results."Dozens of London schools - including many city academies - are being ordered to raise their standards or face losing their independence. Ministers are...

Law Makes Noose Display a Felony

The new New York governor David Patterson has signed legislation to make displaying a noose, a symbol of the lynching of African Americans common during the reconstruction era, illegal in New York state."Gov. David...

Brr! Upper Midwest Locked in Bitter Cold Snap

Minneapolitans woke up to -8F temperatures today, testing even their hardy souls. And there's no respite  in sight for the region -- tomorrow's expected to be even colder."A winter weather advisory has been...

OBAMA 'ROBBED' IN NY

"February 16, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the...

Record for Northern Minn.: 40 Below

Yesterday the town of Internationa Falls, Minn., set a record for coldness -- 40 below zero. Yikes..."It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't get his car trunk to close after he got out his charger to...

Arctic Chill Stretches Across US

Temperatures continued to drop and cold weather storms intensified across much of the U.S. today. Is the weather strangely freezing where you are? Send us your photos of the wild weather in your region."Bitter cold gripped most of the United States on Monday, with...

Costa Rica Plants 5 Million Trees to Combat Climate Change

Other countries prone to acts of mass deforestation and massive carbon output should take notice. This isn't a token low-emission light bulb replacement strategy, Costa Rica is taking necessary actions toward...

Why the Nintendo Wii stinks, according to Greenpeace

I seriously doubt this will change any wish-lists this year.  I know if I were twelve it certainly wouldn't change mine.  Interesting to note though."Greenpeace gives Nintendo a zero out of 10 possible...

Women Asked To Strip Off For New City Show

" A GLASGOW artist is searching for 20 women to help her new show - by baring all on stage. Nic Green is looking for women of all shapes and sizes to take a stand against the so-called size zero' culture. As part...

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