November 19, 2008 – 8:17 am
Surprise! Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade. Admiral Michael Mullen, the US military chief, pronounced himself stunned by the pirates’ reach after their capture of the supertanker Sirius Star and […]
November 17, 2008 – 6:41 pm
The ACLU will surely jump on this issue. Having a school education event, a government school mind you!!! and they put on skits about Christianity Samina and Rashid Chotani’s Ellicott City home will be relatively silent in the coming weeks, compared with the past month and a half. That’s when up to 42 children gathered […]
November 17, 2008 – 8:45 am
This is what you get when government is involved Visitors to the World Trade Center site will soon get a visual update on the work in progress. The agency began wrapping the fence that surrounds the 16-acre site with vinyl mesh Sunday. The fence wrapping will have renderings of some of the buildings being constructed […]
November 15, 2008 – 10:10 am
Down the road a couple hours from me, political correctness run amok A veteran whose son was killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole has sued officers at the Marine base where he works, saying they violated his free-speech rights to display bumper stickers that link Islam with terrorism on his vehicle. […]
November 12, 2008 – 11:24 am
Interesting advice THE threat of recession could disappear if we all put a smile on our face, the Government’s top money man said today. After two months of persistent bad economic news, Treasury secretary Ken Henry said the worst could be avoided if Australians simply cheered up. “Fundamentally what is driving weaker economic outcomes globally […]
November 12, 2008 – 11:21 am
Even though the article points out that Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah doesn’t think much of Obama’s changeiness, he sure loves the word racist! Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday lashed out at Israel, calling Israelis “racist war criminals” and warning that Hizbullah was “stronger than ever.” He also expressed skepticism regarding US President-elect […]
November 11, 2008 – 7:48 am
Remember who so many on the left poo poo’d it, claiming it was just Israeli warmongering? And that the US was complicit? How’d that work out? Uranium found in Syria by UN nuclear inspectors Syria has vehemently rejected Israeli and American claims that it was constructing a secret nuclear plant at the destroyed facility. However […]
November 11, 2008 – 7:38 am
Without comment: Single mother on benefits is moved into £1m five-bedroom house – funded by the taxpayer A mother-of-five claiming benefits is living in a detached home worth £1million ($1.554 million) – with taxpayers helping fund her £25,000 ($38,884) annual rent. The luxury five-bedroom home with two sitting rooms, a conservatory and a double garage is being […]
November 10, 2008 – 9:11 am
Good thing we have the ACLU around to determine whether or not laws supported by a majority (similar to Prop 8 in California) are OK Voters in Columbia County (Oregon) gave strong approval to a ballot measure that cracks down on employers caught hiring illegal immigrants. According to the measure, the Columbia County Board of […]
November 10, 2008 – 8:27 am
Simple wonderful. The Times has a story ripe with anonymous sources who discussed a secret operation allowing strikes against Al Qaeda in countries around the world without permission by those countries, and includes all sorts of “no comments” by people who are named. Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries The United […]
