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Finally. Washington (CNN) -- The controversial "drum major" inscription on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington will be removed rather than replaced under a plan announced Tuesday by federal officials. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a news release...

Golf Clap: Canada Refuses To Recognize Syrian Rebels Until They Reject Jihadism… More of the awesomeness we’ve come to expect from Stephen Harper’s government. Via National Post:Canada told the Syrian opposition Tuesday it must reject extremism and embrace minorities before Ottawa will...

Brook Hart, college friend of Jackie Coogan (child star whose mother and step-father blew through his millions . He sued them but only $250,000 was left. The "Coogan Bill' was enacted because of this), was kidnapped and murdered in 1933 by two men seeking to get $40,000 from his wealthy...

Would Canada's Real Conservative Party Please Stand Up Canada's 375,000 federal public employees now make, on average, $114,000 in salary & benefits. This amount is expected to rise to $129,800 in the next 3 years. The report which revealed these figures was released by the Parliamentary...

via sda: At this very moment, Frank Graves' polling results are being presented as evidence in a Federal Court. In Canada. I'm not making this up. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/022204.html#comments Federal Court robo-calls suit frivolous, Conservative party lawyer argues...

StorageWarsSuedByItsStarShowIsFakedAndExecsWereConfrontedByCast,CourtPapersCharge “Yuuupp,” Dave Hester has filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Storage Wars, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively. Hester, one of the show’s best-known personalities who is infamous for his brash “Yuuup”...

In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train for the state’s poor and...

Watch for yourself. Video -- Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold -- National Geographic

CALGARY -- What should have been a joyous outing for some new Calgarians seeking a Christmas tree turned into an ugly racist confrontation that’s left them questioning their chosen city. Laura Sharpe, who moved with her three young children from Toronto to Calgary two years ago, said her...

PICKERING - A couple of years ago, a light bulb went on for Colin Bates. Now, there are tens of thousands of them. Bates is behind Rigby Lights — possibly the coolest Christmas light display in the country, if not the geekiest. Four consecutive Pickering houses on Rigby Dr., at Liverpool...

WINNIPEG — A hunter who turned up after being lost in the southeast Manitoba bush for three weeks says thoughts of his family and the hundreds of people who were looking for him kept him going. “(It was) my wife and my son and the knowledge that the search and rescue community and people I...

A Chinese group agreed to buy 80.1 percent of American International Group Inc. (AIG)’s plane-leasing unit for $4.23 billion in the nation’s largest acquisition of a U.S. company. The International Lease Finance Corp. acquirers, led by New China Trust Co. Chairman Weng Xianding, have an...

h/t Fark World’s largest container ship at 396m long arrives in Britain on maiden call carrying thousands of Christmas presents There was no mistaking who ruled the waves today, as the world's largest container ship pulled into Southampton with thousands of Christmas presents on board...

They can turn skin blue and lumpy, leave you blind, and experts warn they could be a bigger scandal than faulty breast implants Like most brides-to-be, Mary Catchpole, 41, wanted to look perfect in her wedding photos. The mother-of-two had already lost 2.5 stone in preparation for her big...

in operation to rescue American doctor in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) – An elite U.S. special forces team rescued an American doctor who had been abducted in Afghanistan, but lost one of their own members in the mission, officials said. Dr. Dilip Joseph was freed 11 hours after...

Goracle On Hurricane Sandy: “This Storm Was Related To Global Warming”… Liar.NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore said late last week that there is no doubt that Superstorm Sandy was related to global warming, and people need to stop and think about what is happening to...

via sda: Let me fix that sentence for you.THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: This is what government dependency looks like in America; parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read...

More than 200 school districts across California are taking a second look at the high price of the debt they've taken on using risky financial arrangements. Collectively, the districts have borrowed billions in loans that defer payments for years — leaving many districts owing far more than...

Political correctness has no place in Christmas: Tony Clement You have the right to decorate your desk and office space as you see fit. That's the memo federal government employees across the country will receive Monday. "Christmas and Chanukah are special times of the...

Criminal dumbassery. A semi driver is lucky to be alive after a deer, he said was tossed from an overpass along I-295 in Varina, slammed into his big rig. It happened around 12:30 a.m. early Friday just before exit 22A on I-295 north near Route 5, according to a trucking company based in...