Tuesday Feb 06, 2007
Attack On Agent Ramos: Update
World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Digital
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Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
$2.9 TRILLION SPENDING PLAN: Bush's budget favors defense
PERJURY CHARGES
Judge clears way for trial for Jim Black ally: Official with PAC for optometrists accused of lies on finance reports
Nonprofit raises $750,000 toward lacrosse defense
THE WATADA DOCTRINE: The deeper meaning behind the court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada and why this soldier is the darling of the anti-war movement.
HILLARY'S HIDDEN ENERGY AGENDA: According to this anonymous writer who has worked for a decade on energy and environment policy on a national and international level, Senator Clinton������¯������¿������½s plan for energy independence means that you will ������¯������¿������½have less, make less, and do less.������¯������¿������½ Here������¯������¿������½s how it came to be and who������¯������¿������½s behind it.
Monday Feb 05, 2007
RALEIGH ������¯������¿������½ New state Rep. Charles Thomas plans to beat high rental costs in Raleigh and send a signal about the costs of being a public servant by camping out in a recreational vehicle while the General Assembly is in session.
Copters were shot down: U.S. pilots revise tactics in Iraq after 4 crashes in 2 weeks
Many states joining fight against Real ID
After Maine passed resolution against it, others following suit
Senator Clinton has a carefully hidden plan for US energy ������¯������¿������½independence.������¯������¿������½ The plan means that you will ������¯������¿������½have less, make less, and do less.������¯������¿������½ Here������¯������¿������½s how it came to be and who������¯������¿������½s behind it.
The other side of the Prophet
Ahmadinejad: On February 11, Islamic Republic's nuclear rights 'will be established'
Ridiculous New York Times Story of the Week
Bush plans for 2012 surplus: Budget proposal calls for billions more for defense, keeping tax cuts and reining in health costs.
Saudi court sentences foreigners for drinking, dancing
Georgia Tech and other campus newspapers reject an ad for What Americans Need to Know about Jihad as ������¯������¿������½offensive.������¯������¿������½
Sunday Feb 04, 2007
HEATH SHULER: Power Player of the Week
"Every time there is a debate between a real jihadi and, say, what we have decided to call moderate Muslims, the jihadis win"
UK officials suspect jihadist mole in Ministry of Defense
UK: Teacher fired for saying most suicide bombers are Muslims
Iranian general supervised Hamas arms, source says
Chewbacca Arrested in Hollywood!
Western banks skimming from Africa.
Palestinians: "We Don't Deserve a State"
# Move on from Blair, Labour urged
Labour's deputy leadership contender Jon Cruddas says it is time for the party to move on from Blairism.
AFP - Egyptian police have discovered two arms caches in northern Sinai near the border with the Gaza Strip, including hand and rocket-propelled grenades.
# Satellite prepares to go super-cold
Europe's Planck satellite will study relic radiation from the Big Bang to answer deep questions about the origin of the Universe.
Reuters - Israel has stepped up preparations for a possible military incursion into Gaza over concerns that fighting between Palestinian factions may lead to renewed attacks on Israel, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
AP - Hamas gunmen attacked bases of Fatah-allied troops with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades early Sunday, part of a four-day campaign by the Islamic militants to weaken the security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Storm Track Appeasement: Listen UP! An Appeaser Dictates the Rules for Reporting Islam
Saturday Feb 3, 2007
Imam prays to stop ������¯������¿������½oppression and occupation������¯������¿������½ at Democratic National Committee meeting
Easley: Nifong broke his word: The governor called the Durham DA his worst appointment. He said Nifong promised not to run for a full term
Northeast Intelligence Network: Case of Libyan children infected with HIV virus topic of new al Qaeda message
Panel links warming to humans: Climate changing at perilous rate, it says
Bush to Face Questions from Democrats
Sleeper Cells in the United States and Canada: There is every reason to suspect that we will endure suicide missions by Islamist sleeper cells. They are already in place. They are waiting for the right time. I know this from experience.
Morris: Hillary Has New Scandals
Dems to Net - "Thanks For All Your Hard Work in '06, Now Piss Off."
CONROE, Texas -- A 65-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by a vicious pit bulldog during a neighborhood walk choked the dog to death as he defended himself.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation's first "terror-free" gas station.
WINSTON-SALEM������¯������¿������½Former U.S. Senator John Edwards is making a second attempt for the U.S. presidential seat, and told a filled crowd inside Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University on Jan. 29 that there is one prominent issue that stands out more than any other matter for the next commander in chief.
������¯������¿������½I think the single most important issue facing the next president will be to reestablish our leadership in the world,������¯������¿������½ he said.
Friday Feb 2, 2007
Video: Muslim Students Disrupt Daniel Pipes Speech at UC Irvine
Piglet exterminated in Qatar
WASHINGTON ������¯������¿������½ To the victor goes the bonus: Rep. Heath Shuler rewarded Anzalone-Liszt Research, a Montgomery, Ala., polling firm, with a $5,000 ������¯������¿������½win������¯������¿������½ bonus after beating the odds and defeating 16-year incumbent Charles Taylor, his most recent campaign finance report shows.
50 Iraqis Dead from Laser Shortfall?
Bob Geldof is launching a channel aimed at promoting world peace.
The anti-poverty campaigner is getting involved in the development of the online channel, according to Broadcast magazine.
BEAVERDAM ������¯������¿������½ It was Fred Hensley������¯������¿������½s whistling that finally allowed searchers to home in on his whereabouts shortly after midnight Thursday as the prospect of a winter storm threatened the region.
A Long Row To Hoe: Proposals for an alcohol-fueled end to dependence on foreign oil do not sit lightly on the American landscape. Can they fit within our borders at all?
RALEIGH - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said Thursday that President Bush intends to push for significant increases in the maximum federal Pell Grants available to students.
ZOA calls for retraction & apology after Sec'y Rice calls Hamas "a resistance movement"
UK: Muslim fury over arrests
CONTAINING IRAQ
In America, Iranian torturers are prosecuted; in France, their victims are.
Joe Kennedy Pimps for Hugo Chavez: The elder Kennedy loved Hitler; now Joe the Second cuts 30-second spots for Venezuela's petty tyrant.
Thursday Feb 1, 2007
Asheville: The National Weather Service on Thursday afternoon cancelled its winter storm warning for most of Western North Carolina after a storm system that was expected to drop five inches of snow fizzled out.
The Islamic Mein Kampf
ASHEVILLE: A winter storm bearing down on Western North Carolina today threatens to bring widespread power failures and dangerous roads as up to 5 inches of snow gets topped by a quarter- to a half-inch of ice.
A First Hand Account of Road Conditions between Franklin and Cullowhee, NC
NCDOT: Traveler Information Management System
SPITTING ON OUR TROOPS
Connecting the dots of brinksmanship in the Mideast this morning brings us the sounds of increasingly loud saber rattling from all sides:
"Ironic isn't it? While we sit in "safety"... wondering if our nation is going to invade Iran, they have secretly been invading us!"
Iran's Revolutionary Guards: "The kidnapping of American citizens in the Middle East, Europe and South America is not difficult and can happen at any moment"
Canadian town to immigrants: you can't stone women
The "Other" Headline From General O'Reilly's Speech
There was a lot of news from yesterday's speech by Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly, Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency. Not only did he report significant progress in our own missile defense efforts, he also outlined the most compelling reason for moving ahead with BMD:
31 January 2007: Jamal KHALIFA, the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden and precious gem broker by profession, was shot by unknown assailants and killed in Madagascar, according to his family.
CARY - No matter what happens this morning, Rick Nordman will have 5 inches of snow in his backyard, easy.http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/538491.html
DHIMMI WATCH: 'Palestinian Genocide Day' instead of Holocaust Day
UK: prison toilets rebuilt to face away from Mecca
Station Crew Completes Successful Spacewalk
Wednesday Jan 31, 2007
WINTER STORM WATCH FOR WNC
GATES OF VIENNA: EU DOMAIN NAME GRAB
CHEROKEE ������¯������¿������½ The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on Tuesday approved a casino expansion plan that will double the size of its gambling operation and bring 1,000 new jobs to Western North Carolina.
Macon County Deputies have charged a man for drugging and raping a 14-year-old child: Douglas Charles LePage, 50, of 591 Fox Run Road, Franklin, was taken into custody after he allegedly put benzodiazepine into the food of a 14-year-old, later raping her.
Pentagon investigating Iran's Qods Force role in Karbala attack: IRGC's Qods Force is the prime suspect in the Karbala attack which killed 5 soldiers; we broke story on Friday, January 26
TOP 11 SIGNS ISLAM NOT AS BAD AS THE CELEBRITY LEFT
JOE BIDEN MAKES IT OFFICIAL
Can it really be possible that Americans are witnessing a governmental program designed to merge ������¯������¿������½ slowly but surely ������¯������¿������½ the United States, Mexico and Canada?
Extremists in Somalia Threaten to Kill Any Peacekeepers Posted There
MARIANNA, Fla. | The wife of a rural Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects were killed Tuesday evening in shootings outside the sheriff's home.
PALESTINE: For more than sixty years it has been the recipient of aid from the United Nations, Europe and the United States. In fact, "the highest per capita aid transfer in the history of foreign aid anywhere." Statesmen all over the world have paid homage to it. It's leadership has been praised and defended by Jimmy Carter
What's Left? How Liberals lost their way: Maggie's Farm
What's Left? How Liberals lost their way: Belmont Club
LAS VEGAS - Juan Pablo Montoya didn't have much chance to celebrate his Rolex 24 At Daytona victory Sunday, for he was supposed to be in a Nextel Cup car Monday morning for a test at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.