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Now causing seething in British Islamic communities: Trainee police puppy Rebel. The British police should have known better than to take such an obviously blasphemous photograph, sure to offend and enrage members of the Religion of Peace™. What were they thinking? A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman’s hat advertising a Scottish police force’s new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims. Tayside Police’s new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community. The choice of image on the Tayside Police cards - a black dog sitting in a police officer’s hat -...

Cuba: Castro Saved President Reagan Friday, September 14, 2007 By: Humberto Fontova The latest essay from Fidel Castro's ghostwriters (referred to as "Fidel Castro" by news agencies that have earned Havana bureaus) claims the Cuban Maximum leader saved President Ronald Reagan's life in 1984. "Right-wing terrorists" (the same bunch, you may recall, that the same source blames for JFK's assassination) were plotting the murder of President Reagan during a campaign visit to Charlotte North Carolina. Luckily, Cuban security officials working at the U.N. penetrated to the very heart of the plot. "The information was complete," claims the "Fidel Castro" essay,...

Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".The 45-year-old, who made the comments on her website, has just toured the US on a biodiesel-powered bus to raise awareness about climate change. She teamed up with environmental activist Laurie David for the shows. The pair targeted 11 university campuses to persuade students to help combat the world's environmental problems. "I have spent the better part of...

By Robert MacMillan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is donating a total of $37 billion -- most of his personal fortune -- to a foundation started by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and to several family foundations, making it the largest-ever individual charitable gift in the United States. Buffett, 75, is the chief executive of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. He is worth an estimated $44 billion, according to Forbes magazine, making him the second-richest man behind Gates, who is worth about $50 billion. The $37 billion comprises about 85 percent of Buffett's fortune. In a letter to the...

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was injured when his motorcycle was involved in a crash on the 10th Street Bridge today. Roethlisberger was injured shortly after 11:30 a.m. at the Second Avenue side of the bridge near the Armstrong Tunnel. Steelers' spokesman David Lockett confirmed Roethlisberger was involved and is being treated at Mercy Hospital. An eyewitness said she saw a motorcycle headed outbound on Second Avenue as a car was coming inbound. The car made a left turn toward the bridge in front of the cyclist. The motorcycle hit the car and the operator flew into the windshield and then...

Zarqawi 'survived initial strike' Pictures of Zarqawi's body were earlier put on display by the US Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive when Iraqi police got to the scene of the air strikes that targeted him, the US military says.But the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq died of his wounds shortly afterwards, Major General William Caldwell said. US planes dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on Zarqawi's safe house near the city of Baquba on Wednesday. Zarqawi had tried to move off the stretcher where he had been placed by Iraqi police, Maj Gen Caldwell said. "Everybody resecured...

LOS ANGELES -- Luis Hernandez just laughs as he sells fake driver's licenses and Social Security cards to illegal immigrants near a park known for shady deals. The joke - to him and others in his line of work - is the government's promise to put people like him out of business with a tamperproof national ID card. "One way or another, we'll always find a way," said Hernandez, 35, a sidewalk operator who is part of a complex counterfeiting network around MacArthur Park, where authentic-looking IDs are available for as little as $150. Some of those coming to MacArthur...

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Marijuana smoking does not increase a person's risk of developing lung cancer, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles that surprised even the researchers. They had expected to find that a history of heavy marijuana use, like cigarette smoking, would increase the risk of cancer. Instead, the study, which compared the lifestyles of 611 Los Angeles County lung cancer patients and 601 patients with head and neck cancers with those of 1,040 people without cancer, found no elevated cancer risk for even the heaviest pot smokers. It...

Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. "This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis." Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear...

MURDOCH TO HOST FUNDRAISER FOR HILLARY CLINTON Mon May 08 2006 18:25:16 ET Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer! Murdoch's surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST, underlines a dramatic turn of relations between Murdoch and Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to denounce critics of her husband. Some say the move by Murdoch reflects approval of her Senate career. Others note his record for picking future national leaders. Last century, he...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Friday the national anthem should be sung in English - not Spanish - in a blunt rejection of a new Spanish-language version. He also expressed opposition to a national work stoppage called for Monday to dramatize the importance of immigrants to the U.S. economy. ``I'm not a supporter of boycotts,'' Bush said, while restating his support for a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws. Bush made his comments at a Rose Garden news conference as a Spanish-language version of ``The Star-Spangled Banner,'' hit the airways featuring artists such as Wyclef Jean, hip-hop star Pitbull and...

AP) SACRAMENTO California's state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history. By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans "about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy."

(Washington-AP, Apr. 18, 2006 2:25 PM) _ The government says businesses started by black entrepreneurs are among the fastest-growing segments of the American economy. That's also true in Connecticut, where the number of black-owned businesses grew from more than 7,000 in 1997 to more than 10,000 in 2002. Connecticut NAACP president Scot Esdaile says he thinks a lot of people are trying to start their own businesses because there aren't enough jobs in the state. Esdaile says that though his group welcomes the new entrepreneurs, members also want to push for more opportunities to do business with the state. Across...

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals. The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar...

ANIMAL KINGDOM Man's name now KentuckyFriedCruelty.com PETA worker makes official change to support group's campaign   Posted: December 31, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern   © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A worker with the rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to support a campaign against the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain. The former Chris Garnett says the name is official, and he has the driver's license and papers to prove it. The new name "never fails to spark a discussion," said the 19-year-old, who serves as youth outreach coordinator for PETA. PETA's anti-KFC campaign is...

Rockefeller’s Confession What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat? By William J. Bennett Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller? SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I...

A prominent Republican senator and a possible presidential candidate in 2008 said on Sunday that the war in Iraq destabilized the Middle East, and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict, Reuters news agency reported. "What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy," said Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a top member of the Foreign Relations Committee and a Vietnam War veteran. Hagel also said that there are many similarities between the Iraq war and the U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam. "We are locked into a...

You'd think the vast majority of decent, law-abiding Muslims (about whom we hear so much, but whom we never see taking action against the jihadists) would be coming up to Lieuwe van Gogh, son of the murdered Theo van Gogh, expressing their sorrow, and offering their condolences. Instead, this. From Rogier Van Bakel's Nobody's Business blog (thanks to JS):Since the murder of Theo van Gogh, last November, his now 14-year-old son Lieuwe has twice been physically attacked by young Moroccans, or (more likely) Dutch citizens of Moroccan descent. [Link, in Dutch.] Van Gogh's parents said this in an interview on...

Cuba's longtime communist leader said he was proud to be the friend of Elian Gonzalez, now 11, who graduated this week from Grade 6. "I have the privilege to be his friend," Castro said in speech that was published in Cuban media Friday, a day after the leader attended Elian's graduation ceremony.