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via Fark Hey, not to alarm anyone but that teensy-weensy border dispute between those two teensy-weensy nuclear armed states may be headed for a teensy-weensy little war NEW DELHI, India — Five Indian soldiers and one Pakistani civilian lie dead, victims of skirmishes on the disputed...

An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn’t trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship, I offer to meet him at an undisclosed location outside the United States. “Meeting in person is...

PYRAMID LAKE, Nev. (AP) - Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years. The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern...

What's next? The most recent congressional threat to the free press in the United States comes from California Democrat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In a proposed amendment to a media shield law being considered by Congress, Feinstein writes that only paid journalists should be given...

Orange is the new black for Jesse Jackson, Jr WASHINGTON — Former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday for using $750,000 in campaign money for living expenses, trips and luxury goods — a stunning fall for a once-rising political...

via Fark: People who understand math: Uh... that's more information than even Google processes in a day Did The NSA Think The Public Can't Do Math? Attempt To Downplay Data Collection Fails Miserably from the carry-the-one... dept Last week we wrote about the NSA's ridiculous attempt to...

Silly rabbit Google doesn't believe that people can reasonably expect their emails to stay private. At least, that's what the internet giant articulated in a brief that was filed last month in federal court and recently surfaced by Consumer Watchdog. The document was written in response to...

But Reports Of Churches Being Attacked In Upper Egypt Some locals tried to help... Muslims protecting Christians in Egypt during mass but... madness There are reports of 7 churches being attacked today, reports conflicting on whether before or after the break up of the sit-ins. But...

Que? SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning trial courts and lawyers that citizens who don’t speak English have the right to serve on juries. The court issued the admonition in a ruling that upholds an Albuquerque man’s convictions for murder and other crimes in...

Zero Attendance for 'Climate Change' Rally... Not a single person showed up at the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday for a climate change agenda event put on by Organizing for Action, the shadowy nonprofit advocacy group born out of President Obama’s 2012 campaign, the NRCC wrote in its blog. The...

via sda Oh, Frack! (EXCLUSIVE) Via a source in the Canadian energy industry; ... at least four crude IEDs have been discovered at Pennsylvania gas wells near the Susquehanna River. Anti-fracking groups are...

Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by The Cable reveals for the first time that the agency...

Omar Khadr should be released immediately from detention because the Canadian government is illegally imprisoning him as an adult for actions he committed when he was a youth, his lawyer says. The application calling for the release of the former Guantanamo Bay detainee was filed in...

A TTC bus and a truck collided at a north Scarborough intersection late Tuesday morning, leaving one dead and injuring more than a dozen people, according to Toronto EMS. Two of those injured were reported to have serious but non life-threatening injuries following the crash around 11:30...

Whoddathunkit. Ebay's biggest troll unmasked: Man who outbids all customers then refuses to pay and leaves bad reviews is outed as loner who rarely leaves his house Ebay-hating troll named as Charles 'Chuck' Fitch of Canton, Michigan Local reporter Rob Wolchek hired private...

A Saskatchewan First Nation has accepted the resignation of — and has agreed to pay severance to — the ex-chief who sexually assaulted a teenage girl. The judge said McArthur showed no remorse and tried to minimize the April 2012 assault on the 16-year-old girl, which involved inappropriate...

Support Your Local Skeptic President Alinsky is at it again. Call Out the Climate Change Deniers — Barack Obama Eric @eriContrarian Sarah Palin made a list like this once and was blamed for a shooting because of...

If anyone still cares about this guy. James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster who rampaged through the city’s underworld for decades before slipping away from authorities and eluding a worldwide manhunt for more than 16 years, was convicted today in federal court of charges...

Neighbors of the year: A handicap ramp in front of a Fountain family's house is in the middle of a neighborhood squabble. Vincent and Heidi Giesegh say their neighbors are threatening legal action if they don't remove the ramp. They say the next door...

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