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Jayson Javitz posted previously on the progress in New Orleans, as City Council voted unanimously to proceed with redevelopment of the blighted, damaged, and mostly uninhabitable "projects" ruined by Hurricane...
Posted on December 21, 2007 7:38 PM
Earlier reports, linked at Gateway Pundit, predicted a Chavez victory, but each succeeding one sounded less and less sure. The actual results were probably a huge landslide against - enough to convince Chavez and his cronies that claiming victory would result in a popular coup. Special credit should go to Globovision (in Spanish), which kept the process in the daylight.
Posted on December 3, 2007 1:46 AM
Former World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov was arrested again in Russia the other day while observing a protest march. Kasparov has been legally barred from running for President, along with...
Posted on November 30, 2007 2:11 AM
UPDATE 4:56 p.m.: A bomb blast near the truck carrying former Prime Minister Bhutto has killed at least 51 and injured over 150 more, the Associated Press reports. Bhutto was...
Posted on October 18, 2007 12:49 PM
Despite the attempt by the ruling military regime to cut off communications with the outside world, some news continues to trickle out of the South Asian nation, as posted here...
Posted on October 3, 2007 12:53 PM
While most contact with the outside world has been cut off in Burma (or "Myanmar," as renamed by the ruling military junta), scattered reports indicate human carnage which could approach...
Posted on October 2, 2007 1:09 AM
Democracy advocate and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is running for President of Russia, the Associated Press reports from Moscow: The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov entered Russia's...
Posted on September 30, 2007 11:51 PM
Even as President Bush called for new sanctions against the Myanmar (Burma) government, the military junta has declared curfews and surrounded several monasteries with security forces, raising fears of a...
Posted on September 26, 2007 2:01 AM
Two days after 2000 Buddhist monks were allowed to gather and pray outside the home of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under virtual house arrest for nineteen years (since...
Posted on September 24, 2007 4:22 AM
~Scroll down for update~ The political situation in Pakistani grows more tense as former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, ousted in the military coup which brought President Musharraf to power in...
Posted on September 10, 2007 12:54 AM
Rumors have been circulating for weeks about contacts between the military regime of President Musharrif and the democratic party of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the inference being that...
Posted on August 30, 2007 1:32 PM
Tear gas and military force is needed, sometimes, while seizing the equipment of opposition media, in order to form a more perfect socialist republic, you see. Hugo Chavez sends in...
Posted on May 28, 2007 3:04 AM
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He died in a auto accident late last night. If not for Kiel's arrest for shipping cough medicine two years ago, I would most likely not even remember him. RIP....
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It's a tragedy that still eerily lingers within the entertainment industry. And six months after his tragic death, Heath Ledger's parents are getting ready to celebrate his role in "The...
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There are no plans for a rumoured big-screen version of Friends, film studio Warner Bros has told the BBC. Since the success of the Sex and the City movie,...
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She defeated her sister Serena for her seventh career grand slam title. WIMBLEDON, England - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and...
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Government's role regulating free speech needs to be as limited as possible. The freedom allowed under the 1st Amendment isn't always attractive, yet to limit free expression is always the worst possible option.
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Certainly all right thinking persons regret the death of anyone. And best wishes to anyone in the Helms family need to be extended at this sorrowful time for them. However as a lawmaker, Helms was one of the very worst...
7:34 PM | 4 comments
Christopher Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, underwent waterboarding to experience it for himself firsthand. What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the...
6:10 PM | 4 comments
Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple's cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste's black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers...
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Here come the moving vans. After 41 years in Seattle, the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. The City of Seattle settled its Key Arena lease dispute with the Sonics...
11:36 AM | 3 comments
Peter Cook testified that he and Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going." He also acknowledged spending about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites in 2005. Alexa...
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