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I wonder how Haliburton's stock did during the "Raping of Iraq?" Iraqis in Diyala province sarcastically call it "the whale." A new report says a half-built prison in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, will probably never be used. The "skeletal, half-built" shell of a maximum-security prison in...

In a round about way George Jr does have a legacy after all :lol: A human rights protester was in police custody Monday after throwing a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University. The shoe landed several meters from Wen Jiabao. The shoe landed several...

Rush Limbaugh's version of history and politics On Thursday, Rush Limbaugh, the moral and intellectual leader and most influential person in the Republican Party in the United States, wrote in the august op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, the acknowledged epicenter of right-wing thought...

If this rate keeps up, we'll soon have 100% unemployment. everyone will have to join the military just to put food on the table In a brutal week for the job market, an assortment of companies across various industries announced more than 100,000 job cuts. The bulk of the job loss news...

The economy is tanking and the union bozo's are issuing threats? What's the union mentality... "I think [office-holders] should be worried that if they don't live to what Americans just voted for -- which was change, which was having workers be able to make more money to take care of their...

'I guess the CAW would much rather have it's members unemployed than contribute to the solution. For some deluded reason they believe that $16/hr for labour MORE than Toyota is not one of the problems Nicolas Van Praet, National Post Canadian Auto Workers union president Ken Lewenza...

I guess it's not enough bombing Kentucky Fried Chicken or trashing the local mink ranch We have a lot of sympathy for the cause that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals seek to promote. We don’t have much sympathy for their increasingly goofy attention-seeking antics. The latest...

The "crazy McCain lady" must be just ready to blow a gasket President Obama said his administration will offer a hand of friendship to the Muslim world but will hunt down terrorist organizations that kill innocent civilians. President Obama has taken an early interest in the Middle East peace...

Should we be stocking up on survival gear now? Just as "Y2K" and its batch of predictions about the year 2000 have become a distant memory, here comes "Twenty-twelve." The sun shines through the door of the Seven Dolls Temple, in the Maya ruins of Dzibilchaltun in Mexico. Fueled by a...

Saint's preserve us. I wonder if Harper's speech writers wrote this for Michelle Jean. It says absolutely nothing. OTTAWA - Warning Canadians that the global credit crunch has "dragged the world economy into a crisis whose pull we cannot escape," the Harper government promised to inject...

After eight years of a world wide collective groan whenever Dubya would open his mouth, are we able to overlook our programmed predjudice and allow someone who has even an inkling of sense be listened to? Or will it take time before we can believe anything that comes out of the American...

From the Vancouver Sun Stephen Harper should take Barack Obama by the hand at their yet-to-be scheduled meeting and lead the president in a whole new foreign policy direction. That's the thrust of an article in the latest Literary Review of Canada, which argues the notion of the U.S. as global...

Americans barely reach the international literacy average set by advanced democracies. At science and math, American students trail those in other advanced democracies. The longer students are in school, the worse things get. Among fourth graders, U.S. students rank high on the...

I'm pretty sure they'll put everything on hold (Georgia, Oil and Gas shipments to Europe, etc..) and get right on this 8O A federal judge ordered Russia on Thursday to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to the black market. U.S...

Misty Harris, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, January 23, 2009 Canadians are coping with the economic downturn one pint at a time, if national sales of alcoholic beverages are any indication. Although fourth-quarter data won't be available until April, a Statistics Canada snapshot of...

Three days untill Bush is booted out of the White House and already the far right fringhe is making excuses for his abysmal presidency Bill O'Reilly: Bush Exits Bush leaves office with a 34 percent approval rating, according to a recent Gallup poll. That ties him with Jimmy Carter's...

That's harsh A 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain reliever will have her case heard at the Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether school officials were right to strip-search a student over ibuprofen. The...

NEXT!!!! Nothing Changes if nothing changes..... President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise...

The last eight years have seen momentous events such as the September 11 attacks, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and an economic recession. The grand finale of President Bush's two terms has been a milestone election that turned the country's political makeup on its head. Ted Stanke of New...

Watching Coulters appearance on "The View" this morning was high comedy at best and depressing to watch "white trash" behave like some indignant five year old shamelessly trying to inject controversary in order to sell her tabloid book. After "dissing" Barbara Walters, she rambled on about...