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CTIRUS [sic] HEIGHTS (CBS13) Three Citrus Heights families are without a home after an explosion rocked their apartment complex apparently because one of the tenants was tired of cockroaches. The Sacramento Metro Fire Department says nearly a million dollars in damage was caused when Tone Pene set off a number of bug bombs in his apartment. Pene says he used 8 to 10 foggers, but Sacramento Metro Fire says they found evidence of up to 18 bug bombs. The foggers somehow found an ignition source, possibly the refrigerator, causing an explosion that left the building with serious structural damage. Sac...

A victory for Hamas in Wednesday's Palestinian election will strengthen the Right in Israel and harm Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party, MKs on the Israeli Right said on Tuesday. They said a Hamas victory would serve as a wake-up call for the Israeli public that would begin a process of support shifting from Kadima and Labor to parties further to the Right. "Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel, and it was strengthened by the disengagement," Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters outside the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The head of the Likud's...

Aleksander Boyd, who publishes the blog Vcrisis from London, has proven to us to be a relaible source of news on the Castroite Chavez regime of Venezuela. Most recently, he scooped the world press in reporting on a nonsensical raid on a Jewish school in Caracas. Another blog, Vheadline.com, which seems to take a pro-Chavez perspective, has taken to attacking Aleks mercilessly. It is now calling him "socially racist" and a "terrorist" in addition to a "traitor." Aleks is a brave and honest patriot, resisting a thuggish left wing regime, as far as we can tell. We wish him well....

WND BOOKS EXCERPT, Part 2 An invader's 'hateful stare' 'Illegals' tells harrowing story of man protecting property from aliens Posted: March 31, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: In "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," veteran journalist Jon E. Dougherty documents a truth that both major political parties have missed – namely, that sustained high immigration levels from south of the border will continue to pose economic, labor, security and criminal threats to the United States, unless American and Mexican leaders find ways to limit it. This is the second of four excerpts featured on WorldNetDaily...