Why Isn't the Press on a Suicide Watch?
• E & PYou'd never know that at least 3% of all American deaths in Iraq are due to self-inflicted wounds. And that doesn't include the many vets who have killed themselves after returning home.
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SoCal home sales now 54% below peak
• LA TimesSouthern California home sales continued to slump in July, falling 27% from year-ago levels, and are now running 54% below peak levels reached in July 2003, DataQuick reported today. Some industry experts have warned that August sales may be even we
"Blood in the water" in Florida property market
• ReutersUntil two years ago, middle-class retirees vied with property speculators for houses and apartments on Florida's sun-drenched Gulf Coast. Now almost every other house on some of its streets has a for-sale sign outside. With a bloated inventory
Calif. squirrels heat tails for defense
• APCalifornia ground squirrels have learned to intimidate rattlesnakes by heating their tails and shaking them aggressively.
North Korea seeks help after massive flooding
• ReutersNorth Korea is seeking foreign help after massive flooding left hundreds dead or missing and swept away many buildings, a U.N. aid agency spokesman said. North Korea, which has struggled with chronic food shortages for years, said in a report early
Reporters told to testify in leak case
• APFive journalists must identify the government officials who leaked them details about a scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a federal judge said.
Should a tazer have been used on a man holding a baby?
• APIn this case a security officer tazes an father who is holding his new born. The father wanted to take the new born home but for some reason isnt allowed. (That's a whole other story in itself;...To whom does a baby belong? The parents? The hospi
Have Christians Already Accepted The Mark Of The Beast?
Chuck BaldwinChristians throughout church history have debated the nuances of Eschatology. These debates will doubtless last until Jesus Himself decides to end them.
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Howard BlitzTomorrow at 7 PM at the Historic Downtown Yuma Theatre, 254 S. Main Street, The Freedom Library will screen the movie, Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie is the true story
Somalia: The rubble and the blossom
• Liberty UnboundGo to the world's worst-run country, and discover that what the government can't run prospers.
Remember the fall of Rome
• Government Accounting OfficeDavid Walker, comptroller general of the US is warning of the same collapse that Rome suffered. His reccomendations aren't correct, but his assessment is frank, and rather sober. (And it's only 14 pages)
Building a better beast
• Freedom in our Time(Will Grigg)Let it not be said that the disastrous and unjustifiable Iraq war has failed to yield commercial spin-offs. Just as the first Gulf War famously prompted the Chinese General Staff to begin a crash modernization of the People's Libertation Army
NSA wiretapping trial begins
• Christian Science MonitorIn the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday, lawyers for a Saudi charity accused of helping Al Qaeda will argue that their clients, including two American attorneys, were illegally spied on without the required court warrant.
ABA targets CIA methods, secrets law
• LA TimesThe American Bar Association voted Monday to urge Congress to override a Bush adminstration order authorizing the CIA to use interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, and sensory and sleep deprivation. The nation's largest lawyers'
National ID? How about a global ID?
• InfoworldThe Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems(FIXs) -- a little-known group of non-profits, government contractors, commercial entities, and government agencies -- has just unveiled a first-of-its-kind global infrastructure to support
Herion found in car of top Afghan border official
• ABC News BlogA manhunt is on in Afghanistan for the man President Hamid Karzai wanted to name head of his country's border police. ABC News has learned, following the discovery that the official owned a care filled with heroin intercepted by members
'DAN RATHER REPORTS' Present Conclusive Evidence of Touch-Screen Voting Machine Failures
• Brad blogDAN RATHER REPORTS presents conclusive evidence of the failure of touch screen voting machines across the country. The episode, “The Trouble with Touch Screens,” is an entire hour devoted to new information on this story. From scientists involved in
Cheney's neighbors topple Cheney statue in protest
• YoutubeDick Cheney's neighbors in Jackson Hole, Wyoming topple him in effigy at a protest calling for his impeachment. The protest was held in front of the gate to his home in Jackson Hole on August 11, 2007 (VIDEO)
US bill for Iraq private security grows
• Financial TimesTwo British companies providing security to US army engineers on reconstruction duty in Iraq were paid by the US military more than $200m more than was agreed in their original contracts, according to a report published in the US.
Back Home, More Frustration
• Washington PostThe self-described "proud mother of an Army cavalry scout," Slocum is taking Iraq personally. She told Snowe in a matter-of-fact voice about her 27-year-old son, who is now home but shouts angrily at her, whose body trembles, who at times f
US torture of US citizen went too far, experts say
• Christian Science MonitorJose Padilla had no history of mental illness when President Bush ordered him detained in 2002 as a suspected Al Qaeda operative. But he does now. The Muslim convert was subjected to prison conditions and interrogation techniques that took him pas
When a US soldier in Iraq won't soldier
• Christian Science MonitorNo one looked comfortable at the sentencing hearing. Not family and friends who packed the US military courtroom's straight-backed benches. Not the rookie Army prosecutor in stiff dress greens who flushed with every "Your Honor." Not Ju
How the United States makes Pakistan more radical
• Daily StarThere is little doubt that those allies of the Bush administration who have signed up to the "war on terror" were quite relieved when they heard that General Pervez Musharraf had managed to suppress the Red Mosque revolt in Islamabad recent
Bumbling CIA's failures hurt America
• Chicago Sun Times''The structure of our intelligence organization is faulty. It makes no sense. It has to be reorganized and we should have done it long ago. Nothing has changed since Pearl Harbor. I have suffered an 8-year defeat on this. . . . I will leave
The Progressive Values of "Responsible" Democrats
• Once Upon a TimeIf you believe the United States has the "right" to take "offensive military action against Iran" -- that is, against a nation that does not threaten us now and will not threaten us for years to come, if ever -- and if you believe
Fear, Frenzy, and FISA
• Reason magazineHow the Bush administration has kept Congress locked in a September 12 state of panic.
Britain’s frontline soldiers have 1 in 36 chance of dying on Afghan battlefield
• London TimesBritain’s frontline troops in Afghanistan are being killed at such a rate that, were it to continue, one in 36 would not survive a six-month tour of the country. In Iraq, as many as one in 100 of all service personnel could die during a six-month
U.S. Officials Worry About Potential 'Tet Offensive' in Iraq
• FOX NewsBush administration officials are concerned about a spectacular attack or series of attacks designed to coincide with the September release of a critical progress report in Iraq, a senior administration official confirmed to FOX News.
Bush to bolster Iraq troop surge as antiwar lobby gives ground
• London TimesPresident Bush plans to continue his Iraq troop surge well into next year after a string of positive reports left Democrats increasingly powerless to end the war.
The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq
• By Glenn GreenwaldO'Hanlon's answers, along with several other facts now known, demonstrate rather conclusively what a fraud this Op-Ed was, and even more so, the deceitfulness of the intense news coverage it generated. Most of the critical attention focused o
