November 20, 2004 – 8:33 am
SALISBURY, N.C. — A community college instructor who was suspended for showing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in class the week before the presidential election is offering no apologies and says he was unfairly punished. Davis March showed the Michael Moore documentary critical of President Bush to his film class. Administrators pulled the plug on the movie with […]
November 19, 2004 – 8:29 am
I really wish I was in the mood, rather then hungover again, to really write. The Grey Lady has a story about workers being forced to work "off the clock." It is written more as human interest, but it illustrates an important point: the labor regulations passed by the Department of Labor under the Bush […]
November 19, 2004 – 7:31 am
There always has to be a jerk: MILWAUKEE — A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state. John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday […]
November 18, 2004 – 7:04 pm
U.S. troops sweeping through Fallujah say they may have found the main headquarters of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Lt. Gen. John Sattler said that isn’t certain, but he said a number of "headquarters houses" have been found and useful information recovered. Oh, the Al Queda guy. Oh, wait, I forgot. Iraq has nothing to […]
November 16, 2004 – 9:25 am
From the USA Today: A man was undergoing psychiatric evaluation after he jumped naked into a pool of carnivorous reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, authorities said. The episode happened at about 1:30 p.m. Friday, when the man, whose name was not released, stripped off his clothes and climbed a 5-foot wall surrounding the zoo’s tank […]
November 16, 2004 – 8:54 am
UN is going to put an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. The U.N. Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast’s hard-line government after its violent confrontation with France, drawing bitter accusations here Tuesday that the world was siding with Ivory Coast’s former colonial ruler. (that would be France) The Security Council’s […]
November 15, 2004 – 7:21 am
From the NY Post: Soon after the buzz of gunfire faded from his ears, Army Spc. Frederick Ofori, who just minutes earlier earned hero status in Fallujah, called his mom in Coney Island and said only what he’s said for the eight months he’s spent in Iraq: "Don’t worry, Mom, I’m fine. I don’t have […]
November 14, 2004 – 9:17 am
From a summit convened by Nigeria on the trouble in Ivory Coast, that is. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Nigeria convened an African summit on Ivory Coast’s crisis on Sunday without the leader of the embattled nation, who remained holed up in his mansion, increasingly surrounded by hard-liners. Ivory Coast said it was instead sending its […]
November 12, 2004 – 7:15 am
Folks, if you are up and read this, turn on the news. It is not looking really safe in Rammallah, with the black clad AK-47 toting Hammas members present in the crowd. Live on Fox, and I am sure on the other stations. Not switching away. The crowd has been chanting for Arafat to be […]
November 11, 2004 – 7:33 am
Arafat has finally kicked the bucket (though, they apparently do not know why yet.) He is done. Toast (hopefully, literally.) Several world leaders have chimed in: French President Jacques Chirac eulogized Arafat as a "man of courage and conviction who, for 40 years, has been the incarnation of the Palestinians’ combat for recognition of their […]
