Denied marriage at home, mixed-faith couples from warring Lebanon and Israeli head for Cyprus

The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime...

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Amnesty: Israel Is Denying Palestinians Water

Israel is guzzling the region's water supply to keep its farmland lush and its lawns green while many Palestinians struggle to get the bare minimum for life...

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Where Bush Was Bashed, Obama Gets Free Pass

GOP faithful can't fathom why press goes so easy on new president

Supporters of George Bush are miffed about the passes...

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Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis

Neither the rating agencies' mistakes nor the overleveraging by financial firms was the fault of an academic hypothesis.

Our financial firms drove too fast, our central...

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Freakonomics Guys Freak Out Climate Acolytes

Wouldn't it be great to make global warming disappear with a helium balloon, a few miles of garden hose, and a stream of sulfur dioxide? “Maybe, but not if you’re...

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Fuck the FDA! Clove Cigarettes Banned: Enter Clove 'Small Cigars'

FDA, importer disagree over definition of a cigarette

For one California importer of smokes, an awful lot has come to rest...

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Funny: Arnold Hides Vulgar Message to Legislators in Veto

Bill's author recently told governor to 'kiss my gay ass'

Though all political vetoes send some message, a recent one by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to carry two—with the less-obvious...

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Somali Women Whipped by Religious Enforcers for Wearing Bras

Underwear 'fraudulently advertises assets' to suitorsMuslim Shabaab religious enforcers in war-torn Somalia are finding time to whip Muslim women for wearing bras. Bra-wearers are being punished because...

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French court convicts Scientologists of fraud

A court yesterday convicted the French branch of the Church of Scientology of organised fraud. The Scientology Celebrity Centre and a related bookshop in...

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OZschwitz: Anti-human rights poLICE, head to Asia to fight courageous 'smugglers'

AUSTRALIA is preparing to dispatch police across Asia to fight people smugglers and expand intelligence and security ties with Indonesia under a landmark deal that...

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Vigilante Video

Alleged teen thieves got what they deserved

A video of five teenage boys being beaten by vigilantes and forced to...

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Karadzic Caught Discussing Genocide on Wiretap

Prosecutors reveal tape as Bosnian leader's trial goes on without him

Radovan Karadzic was caught on tape ordering the...

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Death row may go private in Arizona

Arizona spends $4.7 million each year to house inmates in a super-maximum-security prison. But in a first in the criminal-justice world, the state's death-row inmates could become...

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It's Official: Criminal Gangs ATF and FBI Don't Get Along

In April 2005, sheriff's deputies reached a suburban Seattle home in time to prevent a firebomb from detonating. But there was nothing the sheriff's department could...

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A miracle: First U.S. Official Resigns to Protest Afghan War

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who fought in Iraq and subsequently joined the State Department, said he believes the war is simply fueling...

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The Collapse of the British Liberal Order

Via Instapundit comes a disturbing report that one-fifth of the British electorate would consider voting for the British Nationalist Party (BNP), which is considered by almost everyone left...

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Russian Banks Foreclose on Pigs, Lingerie

As defaults soar, banks stuck with weird collateral

With loan defaults soaring, Russia’s banks have had to seize a lot of...

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King scraps Saudi woman flogging for sex talk show

Saudi Arabia's king waived a flogging sentence on a female journalist charged for involvement in a risque TV show, the second such pardoning of such a high profile case by...

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Dubai slave pen: 'What the fuck?' Aussie arrested after swearing at policeman

Dubai International Airport, he did what many young Australians would do. He swore.

"This guy in a blue shirt grabbed my wrist quite hard, pulled me towards...

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OZschwitz: Statist idiots flaming panic over continent's imaginary coastal flooding... in the next hundred years...

URGENT action to cope with the impact of rising sea levels needs to start now, including improving evacuation routes for coastal communities during extreme storms and...

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Idiot: Dickhead poLICE officer charged after pulling gun on chainsaw-wielding man at the end of his act

A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chainsaw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said on Monday.

Sergeant Eric Janik, 37, was charged with assault and...

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Another statist rights violation: Customs nab man with pythons taped to body

Customs officials in Norway say they had arrested a man who tried to illegally import 14 snakes and 10 lizards into the country by taping the reptiles to his body.

The snakes, king pythons that are large in...

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Vicious Japanese statists ruin actress' career over nothing more than personal drug use

More than 6000 people crowded outside a Tokyo courthouse as Japanese actress Noriko Sakai pleaded guilty to drug use and prosecutors sought a prison sentence in a trial that has caused a...

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Who speaks for America's Jews? J Street lobby group works to loosen big beasts' grip on Congress

Boost for J Street as Obama adviser attends conference, but Israeli ambassador will be...

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Thanks to statists: 9 Million Hungry In North Korea

North Korea should take urgent steps to improve its "abysmal" human rights record by providing food to its hungry citizens, a UN envoy said yesterday as he released...

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