Bill O'Reilly clearly made a decision to do whatever it takes to try to destroy Rosie O'Donnell's reputation and career. He and Michelle Malkin ganged up for a hateful attack on O'Donnell adding threats for ABC and insults to Barbara Walters. Yet after his ruthless hatefest, O'Reilly said that O'Donnell had " crossed the line into hate" predicting she would never recover.
Malkin's face was twisted in rage as she spoke of O'Donnell claiming ABC had " dug itself a deep deep hole". S... (more)
THE US Department of Homeland Security is insisting that Verisign hand over the master keys of the Internet.
If it succeeds, the US will be able to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet.
Effectively it would mean that US spooks could snoop on anyone in the Worldwide wibble and place control of the Interweb tubes firmly in the paws of the US government.... (more)
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans' fundamental freedoms.
Now that Rosie O'Donnell is trying to table it on The View, I guess we can talk about it here.
First, a news quiz: If, some time after the collapse of World Trade Center towers 1 and 2, a 47-storey office building in a major American city also came crashing to the ground, do you think you'd know about it?
Of course, you would.
But if I were to tell you that such an event actually did happen, could you name that building?
Friday night�s Hannity & Colmes (3/30/07) included a panel discussion on Iran with two guests presented as neutral experts who were anything but. A bit of research uncovered some interesting facts about one of them, Kevin Hermening, introduced only as a former 1979 hostage in Iran. Hermening, it turns out, has made some rather bigoted statements about Muslims, including, in September, 2001, a call for �immediate and unequivocal deportation of ever
A legal expert says a judge's decision to find an off-duty Calgary police officer not guilty of drunk driving has nothing to do with favourtism of police officers and everything to do with the wording of the law.
"A lot of judges would convict in a situation like that, but it is not a slam dunk," said University of Calgary law professor Chris Levy on Friday.
On Thursday provincial Judge Thomas Schollie told an Airdrie court that Const. Ross Hart had good intentions ... (more)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to explain why it has refused to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from cars, putting the Bush administration under pressure from an unusual coalition of environmental groups and leaders of the auto industry to move quickly on global warming.
In a 5-to-4 decision, the court rejected the administration’s argument that it had no legal authority to limit carbon dioxide released from new cars. I... (more)
A UN report published recently showed that the number of mercenaries working in Iraq has been steadily increasing and is now estimated that the number of such professional mercenaries to over 30%. Between 30,000 and 50,000 mercenaries are working in Iraq, making them the second largest military force there after the occupying United States.
The case of Iraq "is a new manifestation of the use of mercenaries that has caught the UN by surprise", Spain's Jose Luis Gomez del Prado -- a... (more)
Like most senior Royal Navy officers, Commodore Nick Lambert has great reserves of professional expertise and common sense. The Coalition task force commander was aboard HMS Cornwall when 15 Royal Navy personnel serving on the frigate were seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces on March 23.
The Navy states the 14 men and one woman were on a routine patrol in rigid inflatables off Iraqi shores - Iran insists they were in its... (more)
Years ago, I asked some well-known people to write their obituaries for publication during their lifetime. The wonderful Lord Longford said that he was cowardly and had failed to serve his country properly in the war. Robert Maxwell claimed the fall of communism as one of more important personal successes. Both men were wide of the mark.
The thing about writing your own obituary, whether accurately or not, is that nobody is going to believe it anyway. Reputation, like political le... (more)
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.
It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here
Foresight: The cameras crowd George Orwell's former London home
According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggerin... (more)
The traditional Britain of community groups is disappearing because people are too busy or just do not care enough to become involved, a survey has found.
Seven out of 10 people questioned had no ties to groups or associations in their neighbourhoods. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, the figure rose to eight out of 10. Lack of time, or a dearth of groups relevant to their needs, were given as the main reasons.
The findings reflect the decline of bodies such as churches, t... (more)
Regardless of what you may or may not think about Snoop Dogg, admittedly misogynistic gangsta rap, and the hip hop scene, Snoop’s recent appearance on a Dutch television talkshow is worth the watch—that is if you don’t mind a bit of profanity.
Snoop Dogg, aka Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., had some choice words for the Fox News loudmouth, Bill O’Reilly, who wants the highly successful rap star slammed in prison for smoking marijuana and carrying &ldqu... (more)
It seems the last straw that led to Bill O'Reilly cutting the mic of retired US. Army Colonel Ann Wright on The Factor last night 3/30/07 was her declaration of 29 years of service, and her questioning O'Reilly about how many years he served. This happened as she refused to let him silence her by overtalking, twisting her words and accusing her of blaming America for the Iran-Britain situation going on now. With video.
Wright,who taught the Geneva Conventions to troops at Fort B... (more)
Over the past six years, some 22,500 soldiers have been discharged on grounds of “personality disorder” --- a condition that can be alleged to have existed prior to their tour of duty --- thus absolving the Pentagon of its obligation to provide their medical care and pay their benefits.
A six-month investigation by reporter Joshua Kors for the April 9th “The Nation” magazine learned of “multiple cases” in which “soldiers wounded in Iraq ar... (more)
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Israel will be at war by summer, a prominent opposition member of the Israeli Knesset told NewsMax in an exclusive interview this week.
"We have no choice. We will have to do it," said Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of the opposition National Union Party.
In a wide-ranging interview during a Passover visit to the United States, Dr. Eldad explained that Israel was facing a new strategic threat, caused in part by its own failure to deal a crushing blow to Hezbollah in Leban... (more)
The Bush administration promoted the misguided and destructive war in Iraq by targeting our concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. The con... (more)
I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised b... (more)
When the gunfire ended, one young man lay bleeding near a Burlington intersection and another retreated to his nearby apartment, dropped a pistol to the floor and phoned a lawyer for help.
Now, more than two years after a botched, late-night drug robbery spilled into the street and rattled a tranquil neighborhood, one of the men is preparing to report to prison to serve a five-year sentence while the other is about to be released after a three-month stretch.
