current affairs

....and his name is Kennedy. Isn't this sorta "aiding the enemy"? KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says -- 10/20/2006 In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold...

Published on October 19 2006

What happened to my party? What the hell happened to them? FrontPage magazine.com :: The Coming Impeachment by Rocco DiPippo The ploy of leveling serious, unfounded charges against one's political opponents has served the Democratic Party well in the...

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Bachelet wimps out

Published on October 16 2006

Chávez's U.N. Moment - washingtonpost.com In other words, as Chile's president sees it, it's better to support a budding autocrat who promises to defend Iran's nuclear program on the Security Council, and may threaten her own country's security, than...

North Korea says it will stage nuke test - Yahoo! News By BO-MI LIM, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 3, 11:20 AM ET North Korea said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was "the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war,"...

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The Blotter on Foley

Published on October 2 2006

The Blotter In addition to explicit sexual language, former Congressman Mark Foley's Internet messages also include repeated efforts to get the underage recipient to rendezvous with him at night. "I would drive a few miles for a hot stud like you," Foley...

Urination will go to committee A local decision that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating has provoked political debate. The head of The Democrats Party, a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, Vidar Kleppe, is outraged that...

Twin Cities to host 2008 GOP convention WASHINGTON - Republicans will hold their 2008 presidential convention in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, choosing a location in the politically pivotal Midwest. Party and state officials announced the selection...

Clinton TV interview energizes GOP, Dems In the exchange with Wallace, the former president contended that, unlike him, the newly installed Bush administration ignored bin Laden until the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. "They ridiculed me for trying....

U.N. Speech Gives Boost to Chomsky Book | Chicago Tribune NEW YORK -- The U.N. address by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has had an unexpected impact -- on the best seller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. At the start of his talk Wednesday,...

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uh huh

Published on September 21 2006

CNN.com - Pakistani clerics, scholars want pope removed - Sep 21, 2006 LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- About 1,000 clerics and religious scholars at a meeting in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of the pope for making "insulting remarks" against Islam,...