Tag: fueled
Travel Alert in Mexico Violence Along The U.S.-Me...
"The State Department has reissued a travel for Mexico until Oct. 15. The travel alert was set to expire on today, but was extended Monday afternoon due to security "situations" in Mexico. "The Travel Alert for...
'Freak of nature' may have fueled Lewis County fl...
"CHEHALIS, Wash. - The heavy rains fell everywhere. Federal experts say a freak of nature may be to blame. They emphasize they're still investigating, but they say they're zeroing in on a small but high-intensity...
Terrorism Reaches Out: It's Not Mr. Roger's Neigh...
"Although bombings, civilian slaughter and barbaric beheadings in Pakistan may seem a long way away from U.S. and European communities, the tentacles of terrorism are poisonous and long. Linked to a common body of radical Muslim religious beliefs, fueled by hatred of the West...
Fire-fanning Santa Anas likely to worsen
"Fire-fanning Santa Anas likely to worsen
High winds
Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
"The strongest winds have not occurred yet. They're going to peak [on Monday]," said Ken Clark, a Rancho Cucamonga-based expert senior meteorologist for Accuweather.com.
Forecasters say the...
Idiocy at the LA Times
Josh Marshall is too modest to say it but I will: His site is one of the most informative news sources on the web (and beyond). His piece today shows a brutal example of how arrogant centrally planned media can be. I have taken the rare step of including his...
Johnson Plans Challenge to London Mayor Livingstone
"Boris Johnson, one of Britain's best- known Conservative lawmakers, plans to challenge incumbent Ken Livingstone in the 2008 London mayoral election.
``The opportunity is too great, and the prize too wonderful to miss; and that prize is the chance to represent London and...
Hate from Within: America's Home-Grown Terrorism
"As cities and towns across the country watched the immigrant rights marches last week, some saw a spike in violent attacks targeting immigrants. In separate incidents, authorities arrested groups and individuals caught stockpiling grenades, semi-automatic weapons and...
Tenet: CIA warned of 'anarchy' in Iraq
"SAN FRANCISCO - The
CIA warned the Bush White House seven months before the 2003
Iraq invasion that the U.S. could face a thicket of bad consequences, starting with "anarchy and the territorial breakup" of the country, former CIA Director George Tenet writes in a new...
Sharp pen, cruel tongue
"Israel has fueled hundreds of columns that he published from 1963 on, in hundreds of American newspapers, together with Rowland Evans and without him. Over the course of 25 years, the Israeli-Arab conflict engaged the "Crossfire" program on CNN, on which he would duel with a...
New Anti-Terrorism Caucus Formed in U.S. House
"Today at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC), along with Representatives Bud Cramer (D-AL), Kay Granger (R-TX), and Ben Chandler (D-KY) formally announced they have formed a new bipartisan Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus. Myrick,...
Can Money and Celebrity Test the Influence of Oil...
"Oil tax fight becomes costliest Calif. initiative campaign as producer, oil companies ante up.
In any other year, a $60 million opposition campaign fueled by a deep-pockets industry would almost certainly spell doom for a California ballot initiative.
But the infusion of $40...
Can African Dust Storms Prevent Hurricanes?
"Westward swirling clouds of dust from the Sahara Desert might be putting a damper on Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, a new study suggests."
