PHONE tapping of suspected rumour-mongers, more powers for the corporate regulator and tighter controls on directors’ trades are among...
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Friday, July 31, 2009
UK: 50,000 young jobless serfs told to work or lose benefits
Nearly 50,000 young unemployed Britons will today be told to take jobs created by the Government or lose their benefits.
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Funny: Deputy duped by fake police lights
MANATEE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida motorist who used fake police lights to get through traffic was busted after...
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Banks Paid $32.6 Billion in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout
Citigroup Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and seven other U.S. banks paid $32.6 billion in bonuses in 2008 while receiving...
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Brainiacs: US Suspending Cash for Clunkers: It's Too Popular
The government plans to suspend its popular "cash for clunkers" program amid concerns it could quickly use up the $1 billion in rebates for...
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YaY! Cops Suspended for Running Background Check on Obama
Two Atlanta-area police officers have been placed on paid leave for running a background check on President Obama, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The Secret Service was notified after...
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Shit Scared and Guilty: Public Officials in Security Overkill
Sure, our public officials need protection—but things are getting out of hand, writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post. Since 9/11,...
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My Client's Corrupt, But Who Isn't?
Former Rep. William Jefferson’s lawyer tried a novel defense tactic in his closing arguments yesterday: putting all of the political class on...
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Slimy Anti-Earmark Rep. Scores Earmark for Blimp Research
Rep. Pete Sessions is a vocal opponent of earmarks, but last year he scored one for a company that's not even...
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Idiots: White House Invites CEOs for Lunch—Then Bills Them
Four top CEOs who sat down to lunch with President Obama at the White House have an unusual memento: the...
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Police maggots in Kyrgyzstan disband opposition rallies, detain dozens of protesters
Police maggots broke up opposition rallies protesting the outcome of Kyrgyzstan's recent presidential election on Wednesday, detaining...
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Brutal China: Uighur activist's claim that 10,000 are missing after riots in far west
The government has repeatedly said the riots in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi were orchestrated by...
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Zimbabwe's economic crisis driving HIV decline _ fewer sugar daddies
Fewer Zimbabweans are getting infected with AIDS, and researchers speculate it's due in part to...
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Statist slaughter: China Reports 13M Abortions Annually
China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know...
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Nigerian Rebel Leader Murdered in Police Custody
The leader of an uprising set on introducing Islamic law in Nigeria died in custody today, the BBC reports. Mohammed Yusuf was captured in his...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the...
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Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful...
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Total Recall: Pentagon Looks To Optimize Troops Minds
The U.S. military is racing to master the mind. Last year, Pentagon researchers kick-started a program to replicate a cat’s...
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US Stasi enlists citizens in anti-terrorism strategy
A top US domestic security chief announced Wednesday a strategy to make ordinary citizens the first line of defense against an increasingly multi-faceted...
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The Air Force’s geek squad wants the technology to monitor government employees’ deviant online behavior. And they want you to
The Air Force’s geek squad wants the technology to monitor government employees’ deviant online behavior. And they want you to...
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U.S. Military Spy Was in Washington Antiwar Groups, Ran Their Email List
Newly declassified documents reveal that an active member of Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Washington state was actually...
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YaY! 'Abstinence' State Senator Quits After Banging Young Intern
Pro-abstinence Tennessee State Sen. Paul Stanley has stepped down in the wake of revelations that he had an affair with...
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For when your hedge fund goes bust: Get a Thumbs-Up in Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking, though controversial, remains the epitome of frugal traveling. Ben Bachelder, who has thumbed his way through...
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YaY! Boston Cop Suspended After Racial Slur on Gates
The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates arrest continues: A Boston cop has been suspended for referring to Gates as a...
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Greenpeace: 3 China Firms Emit More Carbon Than All of UK
China's inefficient power plants and heavy reliance on coal are dragging down global efforts to...
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Bold Gem Heist Gang Is Toast of Thieving Serbia
A 200-strong gang of global jewel thieves has become the bane of Interpol and heroes to many in their...
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Barbarian China Says It Will Slash Executions
China holds more executions yearly than any other country—but this week, state media announced China will be...
YaY! Spanish barracks hit by car bomb
Spanish officials have expressed surprise a car bomb which destroyed a police barracks did not kill...
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'French Eminem' Ignites Censorship Fight
A rapper slammed for backing violence against women has sparked a censorship debate that’s reached the upper levels of...
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Traffic Light Turned Green in All Directions for 30 Years Yesterday
Let's say that a new traffic light is installed at an intersection. On one side of the light is a car dealership, and the light in front of the dealership leads onto a...
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Rights violation: Man unjustly charged, for having creative sex... with a horse
A South Carolina man has been arrested for having sex with a horse after police say the animal's...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Most Brit serfs 'want Afghan withdrawal'
British troop presence in Afghanistan is in the country's "national security interest," Britain's foreign minister says in a message to a majority of...
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Obamas to holiday in the lap of luxury, thanks to plundered taxpayers
THE Obama family is said to be headed to Blue Heron Farm, complete with private beach, basketball court, swimming pool and a practice...
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Many killed as Nigerian Islamic sect attacks police
SCORES of people have been killed in clashes between the police and members of a fundamentalist Islamic sect in towns across northern Nigeria, a mostly Muslim region that for years has...
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OZschwitz: Queensland risks 'dark past' return: Fitzgerald
Anna Bligh and Peter Beattie have defended their Queensland Labor governments' record on accountability in the wake of...
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Reports of Prison Abuse and Deaths Anger Iranians
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking...
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Ahmadinejad warned to obey Iran leader
Iranian hardliners warned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday to obey the country's all-powerful supreme leader amid a political crisis that has...
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Hal Turner 'Admits' He Was An FBI Informant
An Internet radio host pleaded not guilty today to threatening to kill three federal appellate judges in Chicago and then...
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Statist Corruption: Argentina's first couple deliver prosperity – for themselves
They were elected on the promise of delivering prosperity to Argentina, but statistics showing a stunning economic turnaround have...
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Idiots: Britain and US prepared to open talks with the Taliban
A concerted effort to start unprecedented talks between Taliban and British and American envoys was outlined yesterday in a significant change in tactics designed to bring about...
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Despicable Cambodian government accused of creating 'Aids colony'
Aids campaigners and human rights groups today accused the Cambodian government of herding HIV-affected families into an...
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70% of US Serfs Don't Like the Fed
The Federal Reserve is the least trusted of all federal agencies, a new Gallup poll finds. Just 30% of respondents said...
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In the land of decree and home of the slave, U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE
The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for...
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Free Trade Good News: Mexican Pot Lords See Green in Strapped Calif. Parks
Mexican drug traffickers are having a banner year growing pot in California’s plentiful—and, due to the state budget crisis, woefully...
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Awash-in-Red USPS 'High-Risk': Fed Watchdog
The Government Accountability Office has put the struggling US Postal Service on its list of “high-risk” federal programs, the Hill reports. The federal watchdog says the USPS will lose...
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Moronic Landlord Sues Tenant Over Derogatory Tweet
Twitter enthusiasts may want to watch what they write—a Chicago landlord has sued a tenant for libel after she posted a Tweet complaining about her...
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Morally innocent La Mesa man convicted of threatening Obama
A 47-year-old La Mesa man was convicted Tuesday of making threats against President Barack Obama during...
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Thieving U.S. Customs and Border 'Protection' officers, rob 3 entrepreneurial teens of half-ton of pot
Three US teenagers returned from Mexico from what they claimed was a fishing trip with quite a catch: more than half a ton of marijuana stuffed beneath...
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Coercive Politicians Accused of Meddling in Bank Rules
Accounting rules did not cause the financial crisis, and they still allow banks to overstate the value of...
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Fall-Back Job for Japanese Women: Flirting
Jobs are scarce in Japan, so women are turning to a once-shunned profession: “hostessing.” They’re paid handsomely to...
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Sick culture: Female UN Worker in Sudan Wears Pants, Faces Flogging
A local woman working for the United Nations in Sudan has been charged with wearing “clothing causing harassment to the public sentiments” and could be flogged 40...
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Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
In her shocking new book, Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of...
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Statist parasite, Rep. Barney Frank, wants wage control for Wall St
Senior House Democrat wants to toughen Obama's new restrictions on Wall Street pay by banning...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
OZschwitz slave pen: YaY! Migration 'scammers' still in business
THE company behind what may be one of the largest immigration rackets ever reported in Australia is still in business four months after it was investigated because...
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OZschwitz gulag: Parking officers seek capsicum spray, batons; What's next, guns?
PARKING officers want self-defence training and the right to carry capsicum spray and batons to protect themselves from increasingly violent attacks by...
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Rudd’s retarded health revolution to ape Obama's
THE Rudd Government will go to the next election under pressure to oversee radical changes to the health system, including an overhaul that would...
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Big Brother Is Watching Your Blackberry
Don't look now, but no matter where you go, you're connected. We -- or most of us, at least -- have opened our front doors to...
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California's new budget filled with accounting tricks, unlikely to help rating
A bond analyst was skeptical Monday about California's revised budget, saying it was filled with...
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Market manipulation: To ease price swings, US may limit energy trading
Critics say federal regulators have long let speculation in energy markets inflict financial pain: triggering wild price swings, hurting...
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Raising Drinking Age to 21 'Regrettable': Key Doctor
A psychiatrist who was part of a presidential committee that recommended raising the US drinking age to 21 now calls those efforts “the single most...
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US shuts down failed propaganda tool in Cuba
The United States has turned off a news ticker at its diplomatic mission in Havana that long had irritated the Cuban government, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, in another sign of efforts to...
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Japanese 'Herbivores' Shun Sex, Machismo
Turning their backs on sexual conquest, macho posturing, and corporate ladder climbing, a growing number of Japanese men are seeking a...
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UK slave pen: Dinghy sailors, surfers and canoeists to be subject to shipping laws; Users face prison and fines of up to £50,000
Canoes, surfboards and dinghies are to be given the same legal status as cruise liners and oil tankers in a clampdown on...
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Idiotic Palestinian militias, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, threaten Sacha Baron Cohen over Brüno ridicule
Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a militant Palestinian group angered at...
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Ex-Hooker: Berlusconi Offered Me a Parliament Seat
Patrizia D’Addario, the prostitute who brought the world what she says are audiotapes of her having sex with Silvio Belusconi, says the Italian PM...
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Incompetent British economists send apology to Queen
A British newspaper has reported that a group of eminent economists have apologised to Queen Elizabeth II for failing to predict the...
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OZschwitz slave pen: Car confiscations lead to lower repeat offences; Well D'OH!
Queensland's hoons and drink drivers are getting the safe driving message thanks to tough laws that have confiscated more than...
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Animals: Protesting Chinese steelworkers beat manager to death
BEIJING: About 30,000 Chinese steelworkers clashed with police in a protest over plans to merge their mill with another company, and they beat the company's general manager to...
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OZschwitz: Environmental heat solutions stymied by oppressive statists
But when I asked Mobbs if he had received council approval for his innovations on public space on Myrtle Street, he replies...
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Idiotic Amnesty International Malaysia executive director 'defends' model's whipping sentence by saying...
"This is the wrong way to educate anyone about the religion. When the sin is between her and God, there is always an option of being...
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OZschwitz: Undercover reporter working on 'fraudulent' migration and education schemes has been bashed; YaY!
An ABC reporter working undercover on a story about migration and education scams has been attacked on a...
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OZschwitz: Statist hospital errors cause 4550 deaths a year
HOSPITAL errors claim the lives of 4550 Australians a year, equivalent to the death toll from 13 jumbo jets crashing and killing all on board, says a report to the Government which urges...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Rights violating Chinese hack film festival site
Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.
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Extortionist Feds Prepare To Tax Toilet Paper In Name Of Climate Change
The vampiric and gluttonous feeding frenzy currently being enjoyed by the federal government under the pretext of climate change is set to be expanded with a range of new taxes on products disposed of via waste water, including...
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Hair And Urine Samples To Obtain Mortgage In Canada?
It has become a first for Canadians and the implications can be astronomical, a massively large insurance firm; The CUMIS Group Limited Insurance who have been partnered along with thousands of banks across North America for insurance requirements, has now accepted a policy of pre-screening drug tests & hair samples for the right to obtain...
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Oliver Stone: JFK And The Unspeakable
The murder of President Kennedy was a seminal event for me and for millions of Americans. It changed the course of history. It was a crushing blow to our country and to millions of people around the world. It put an abrupt end to...
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Pentagon's Microwave Weapon Will Rain Pain From The Sky; It's Just What The Human Race And Culture 'Needs'
THE Pentagon's enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
YaY! India Rejects 'Scientific' Findings On Global Warming
A split between rich and poor nations in the run-up to climate-change talks widened on Thursday.
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Naked girls plow fields for rain to embarrass the weather gods
Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
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The crime of Contempt of Cop
Although contempt of cop is not found in any U.S. law books, it is informally used among many officers when a civilian questions an officer’s authority or asserts their Constitutional rights.
And it has landed thousands of people in jail who have not broken any laws.
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And it has landed thousands of people in jail who have not broken any laws.
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Skype singled out as threat to Russia's security by an incompetent, uncompetitive, business lobby
Russia's most powerful business lobby moved to clamp down on Skype and its peers this week, telling lawmakers that the Internet phone services are a threat to Russian businesses and to...
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Germany calls carbon tariffs "eco-imperialism"; ANCAPS agree!
Germany called a French idea to slap "carbon tariffs" on products from countries that are not trying to cut greenhouse gases a form of "eco-imperialism" and a direct violation of...
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Ancap Good News: Cuba's Black Market Hits the Internet
The Internet has lured Cuba's black marketeers online, GlobalPost reports. In a nation that bans most private commerce, a Craigslist-style website has emerged offering everything from American razor blades to...
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Statist Pigs Weigh In on Responding to Insults
Just how reasonable was Pig James Crowley being when he arrested Skip Gates for mouthing off to him? The New York Times asks a wide range of cops how they handle abuse in the field, and got a range of responses. “If you don’t have a tough skin, then you shouldn’t be a cop,” opines one LA officer. “We’re not dealing with people at their best.” But taunting cops in public is a no-no to some. "You don’t get paid to be publicly abused," says a New York cop.
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Internet Groupthink Throttles Creativity
Social networking may inspire a lot of, well, nothing, because follow-the-crowd thinking trumps radical ideas, says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, director of the Information + Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore.
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Can't Afford a Hotel? Swap Homes With a Stranger
The recession is giving new meaning to the phrase “mi casa es su casa.” Instead of springing for pricey hotel rooms and car rentals, thrifty holidaymakers are swapping with strangers for a summer getaway, Time reports. While home exchanges aren’t new—one company has been around since 1953—business is moving briskly, with one website noting a 30% increase in membership this year.
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Iraqis Attempt to Arrest US Soldiers After Shooting, YaY!
The rift between American and Iraqi forces got a lot wider after a shooting incident in Baghdad this week, the Washington Post reports. When insurgents attacked their convoy Tuesday, US forces pursued them through alleys, and raided several houses, killing two men and a boy. An Iraqi commander ordered the men to be arrested for shooting at civilians. US commanders avoided that for now by insisting their men were acting in self-defense, but arrests may still be made.
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Good stuff: Cheating alleged in OZschwitz immigration exams
AUSTRALIA'S largest international student service, IDP Australia, is investigating possible corruption among its staff after students in Sydney were caught cheating on English exams the service conducts for the Department of Immigration.
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Thomas Sowell: Must health care reform be state-run?
Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care, or that are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient?
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