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A still-developing winter storm is set to become a major nor'easter that will bombard New England with heavy snow and blizzard conditions this weekend. Areas farther south in the mid-Atlantic will not escape the storm as several inches of snow and major travel disruptions are expected. "The area that we think will be hit the hardest and will be at risk for closures will be central and eastern Long Island to New England,” AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said. AccuWeather forecasters were growing more confident on Wednesday that southern New England will face the most significant impacts and that...

What on earth happen to Drudge?!? I’ve been reading his website since I was 15! And this past year I took a break from politics. I know he wasn’t always the most conservative, but I can’t even go on that site now with seeing liberal vomit spewing everywhere. Almost ever main article I see now is just bashing the President!

Researchers have been in a race to find ways to improve lithium-ion batteries. They are also looking to develop alternatives to the lithium-ion battery that would be lower cost and more sustainable to manufacture. And they may just have found one. Aluminum-based batteries would be cheaper to make, because aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust after oxygen and silicon. Aluminum is also light-weight and could be ideal for use in batteries.

Authorities in Rhode Island are trying to figure out who set off explosives inside a pair of portable toilets over the weekend, leaving the thrones blown to pieces in two towns.

Residents Say They're Terrorized By Pit Bulls Posted: 6:16 pm EDT May 1, 2009Updated: 6:33 pm EDT May 1, 2009 SANFORD, Fla. -- Some Sanford homeowners say they're being terrorized by their neighbor's pit bulls. One of the dogs has already attacked a neighbor near Lily Court in Sanford. Eyewitness News has learned the dogs' owners are not keeping their fence secure. Some of the breaks in the fence are big enough for an adult to easily climb through. After many calls to animal control, neighbors say they want the fence fixed once and for all. "Chasing children, attacking children....

Barack Obama delivered a speech in West Lafeyette, IN on Wednesday and once again mangled some well known historical facts: Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world. Aaah yes – "the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor." Who can forget that? It was the big one, the one that took out all those boats. I guess Obama's political correctness prevents him from...

Unabomber like Unicode and Universal how was the Unabomber caught? via the impact [bomb] of his own words. his brother [big brother] snitched on him because he recalled his words matching the anonymous Manifesto manifesto a double entendre, both the Unabombers expression of thoughts and ideas and the vehicle which led to his brother's and our awarness of who he was: the manifesto came out in 1995 and he was arrested in early 1996 just as the internet was really hitting the mainstream what are the subversive psycho-dynamics of the Unamomber? that words have impact? how many people post anonymously...

Two dead in attack in Afghanistan By NOOR KHAN Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- An attacker blew himself up in a failed assault on coalition forces Sunday in volatile southern Afghanistan, while two U.S. helicopters made emergency landings during combat operations, officials said. The attempted attack against the coalition forces occurred after their convoy passed through the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanekzai said the explosives detonated when the attacker was hit by a motorcycle. The blast killed the attacker and motorcycle driver and wounded two other people, U.S. military and Afghan police...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

A regular army division, considered one of the good ones, has laid down its arms.

Almost all of the first British "human shields" to go to Iraq were on their way home last night after deciding that their much-heralded task was now too dangerous. Two red double-decker buses, which symbolised the hopes of anti-war activists when they arrived to a fanfare of publicity a fortnight ago, slipped quietly out of Baghdad on the long journey back to Britain. Nine of the original 11 activists decided to pull out after being given an ultimatum by Iraqi officials to station themselves at targets likely to be bombed in a war or leave the country. Among those departing...

February 27, 2003: The U.S. Air Force is developing a new, 2nd generation, ten ton Fuel Air Explosive (FAS) bomb. It will replace the older "Daisy Cutter" FAS bomb developed during the 1960s. This was a 7.5 ton Fuel Air Explosive for clearing landing zones in the Vietnam jungle. Fuel Air Explosives work by dropping a bomb that is actually a large aerosol dispenser. When the FAS "explodes" it first dispenses a large cloud of flammable material (anything like gasoline or propane will work). The cloud is then ignited and huge explosion results. There's one drawback, the size and density...

Suspected Islamic militants arrested in Paris over the last two weeks were planning to attack the Russian embassy in Paris, the French interior ministry says. The group had been "operational" but was now "dismantled and the plan it was preparing thwarted," the ministry said. Police say they found equipment used in bomb-making at at least one of the addresses raided in the Paris suburbs. They also allege that some of the arrested men received training in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, meeting Chechen military chiefs and senior figures from the al-Qaeda network there. "The group wanted to attack Russian interests, and especially...