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"heard voices" anyway... CALGARY - Derek Puffer was "possessed by voices" when he killed radio legend Bill Powers and his wife, Donna Lee Powers, and can not be held criminally responsible, a judge ruled Friday. Justice Kristine Eidsvik said Puffer neither appreciated the nature and...

BARRIE - Mark Dobson sliced the throats of two women as part of a religious, satanic cult and is now pretending to be insane to avoid life in prison, a Crown attorney alleged on Friday. "This was a cult," said Crown attorney Shannon Curry in her closing arguments. "And now he wants to be...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives are understood to be considering new legislation that would make it an offence to condone terrorist acts online. There is frustration in government, and among law enforcement agencies, that the authorities can’t detain or arrest people who express sympathy for...

ob·se·qui·ous adjective \əb-ˈsē-kwē-əs, äb-\ : too socially squeamish and sensitive...

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing. Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America 1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized. 2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think...

just like they did the fat fellow. All the time, mocking, mocking, mocking, mocking, all the time. It is Babu's turn to mock." Nancy French ‏@NancyAFrench CNN Anchor Mocks Bristol Palin's...

NEB orders City of Burnaby to no longer impede Kinder Morgan's pipeline test drilling; Mayor of Burnaby vows to take this battle to federal court. In a sea-saw legal conflict over the future of a multi-billion-dollar oil sands pipeline, the National Energy Board said it has ruled against...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a bulletin to reporters on Thursday warning that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant had identified reporters and media personalities as "desirable targets" for retribution attacks against the United States. "The FBI assesses, based on open...

Since December 2007 when the Great Recession started, Texas civilian employment has increased by 12% and by more than 1.32 million jobs, from just over 11 million jobs in December 2007 to 12.32 million in September of this year (see blue line in chart). In contrast, civilian employment in...

must be a sad tear-filled day in hipsterville...chow wow wow's throwing themselves off the bloor viaduct and all like that. if doug wins, our moral and intellectual superiors will have a mass stroke. :lol:

I thought this stuff was Barry and Harper's fault...but anyway: McDonald’s Corp. (MCD), the world’s largest restaurant chain, said third-quarter profit fell 30 percent as U.S. sales slumped for the fourth straight quarter. Net income dropped to $1.07 billion, or $1.09 a share, from $1.52...

In 1984, the Government of Canada passed an Act of Parliament for the creation of a civilian security intelligence service. This legislation not only gave birth to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), it also clarified the differences between security intelligence activities...

Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been rediscovered and is now above ground. The public will be able to see the sphinx on display as early as next...

seriously...GTFO...if there are that many excess birds, let's organize a minigun hunting day or whatnot but we don't need these fukkers around no more no more, don't need them around no more. *yes, sounds all gay and flaily and everything but STILL!...don't tell me you like these goddamn things...

excellent WASHINGTON — Federal officials warned companies Monday that hackers have stolen more than 500 million financial records over the past 12 months, essentially breaking into banks without ever entering a building. "We're in a day when a person can commit about 15,000 bank robberies...

via sda: "The (Gallup) survey…found women were more likely than men to want a male boss…In the 60 years that Gallup has conducted this survey, women have never preferred a female boss." I'm reminded of H.L. Mencken's definition of a misogynist: "A man who hates women as much as women hate...

"An Arizona county party official said he saw a man stuffing 'hundreds' of ballots into the ballot box and later told a local news outlet the entire incident was caught on surveillance video…" Video at link. h/t Instapundit

RCMP sets ‘ambitious’ recruitment target of 50% women Beginning next year, the RCMP is aiming for the first time to enroll just as many women as men in its training academy in Regina. Some observers are skeptical whether there’s enough interest among women to reach the 50 per cent...

don't whine when someone cleans it up: John Glanton ‏@ThenTheJudgment No...

Media Party (columnists) hacks routinely bleat about those mean Harperites and their "attack ads" against boy-Justin. Which is really rich coming from the set that has entire newspaper chains and TV networks at their disposal to attack Conservatives on a daily basis, all at no expense to...