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Most of the major news outlets, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, ignored the swelling heat surrounding former White House environmental adviser Van Jones and the videos surfacing of his controversial statements. CBS News became the first of the three broadcast networks on Friday to note the controversy, but ABC's "World News" and "NBC Nightly News" again failed to report the story. After Jones' midnight resignation over the weekend, all three networks aired the story on their Sunday evening newscasts. The Washington Post offered its first story on Saturday yet The New York Times' print edition didn't...

The Obama White House is abuzz with talk of witchcraft by first grandmother, 72-year-old Marian Robinson, who lives in the White House residence. A close friend of Michelle Obama says the president is furious at his mother-in-law after learning that she was practicing Santeria, an African spirit cult, in the White House. "The president is quite upset about this on two different levels. First, he is a committed Christian, no matter what his critics say about Reverend Wright. He is adamant that Sasha and Malia be raised with Christian influences. He does not want them to be involved with African...

GARMSER, Afghanistan - The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave. Last week, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit moved into southern Helmand province, the world's largest opium poppy-growing region, and now find themselves surrounded by green fields of the illegal plants that produce the main ingredient of heroin. The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, derives up to $100 million a year...

NEW YORK - It's a time-honored playbook for presidential front-runners: ignore your opponents' slings and arrows while promoting your own positive vision for the country. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stuck to that text so far, even as her Democratic rivals have begun openly challenging her character and electability. With just seven weeks to go until the leadoff caucuses in Iowa, where polls indicate a tight contest, the question is how long the New York senator will try to ride above the rough-and-tumble. There already are signs of a shift. The issue will be put to a test Thursday, when the...

The study said both the US and Britain were still adopting the Cold War way of thinking which focused on security as "defense" CAIRO — War allies Washington and London are using Cold War-styled policies in dealing with terrorism, resorting to military might and ignoring the root causes of terror, a London-based renowned think tank said in a new study on Wednesday, April 11. "Their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming military force," said the Oxford Research Group (ORG).

Recently, two lengthy immigration studies were released that made headlines across California for their unbelievable claims made by the authors on the impact of illegal immigration in our state. These so-called immigration experts at the Public Policy Institute of California and the Immigration Policy Center came to the misguided conclusion that illegal immigrants living in California actually help American workers earn higher wages, and break fewer laws than other demographic groups in our state. When asked about his conclusions, the co-author of one of the reports, Ruben Rumbaut, told a newspaper that he hoped his work would "reduce prejudice" ----...

One thing is certain about the Iraq war: It has cost a lot more than advertised. In fact, the tab grows by at least $200 million each and every day. ...In any event, most estimates put forward by White House officials in 2002 and 2003 were relatively low compared with the nation's gross domestic product, the size of the federal budget or the cost of past wars. ....Even if the U.S. exits Iraq within another three years, total direct and indirect costs to U.S. taxpayers will likely by more than $400 billion, and one estimate puts the total economic impact...

Nigerian women ignore bike ban Women say there is no public transport alternative Women in the northern Nigerian state of Kano are ignoring a ban stopping them travelling on public motorbike taxis. On Monday religious authorities began implementing the ban passed earlier this year. In accordance with Sharia law, men and women are not allowed to travel together on public transport. The women say there are not enough public transport alternatives in the state that adopted Sharia law in 2000. The BBC's Ado Sale Kankiya in the city of Kano says some 9,000 religious marshals are on the streets to...

Since the war in Iraq began, there has been a breakdown of critical thinking in this country. Forget what the official reports say. The interpretation of the report by the media or Internet sources is what is important. There are people in this country that believe Al-Jazeerah and the terrorists before they will believe any statement issued by the government. Cindy Sheehan and her comrades get front page billing while spouting half-truths and flat out lies about the situation in Iraq. Day after day we are subjected to nothing but “bad” news from Iraq. A suicide bombing here, a convoy...

3/20/91 U.S. F-15C shoots down an Iraqi SU-22 flying over northern Iraq. -Center For Defense Information: Terrorism Project at: http://www.cdi.org/ [NOTE: this effectively marks the day that the 1991 Cease-Fire Agreement was broken by Saddam's Air Force which was prohibited from flying military airplanes in that agreement. By this date, the UN had accepted the agreement, and the US had in principle, but it had not yet been accepted formally by the US Congress-the only way that the agreement could have been ratified by the US. Thus, the 1991 war restarted and everyone in the western world ignored it. For...

I see a list of things I would like to delete. But they are only located on my Ignore Products list. I don't want to ignore them- I WANT TO DELETE THEM FROM MY COMPUTER ENTIRELY!! Someone please help. Thanks. =)

According to the muslim faith if you are buried with pig blood or parts you cannot enter into heaven.I can understand the government doesn't want to do this because it could be seen as atacking the muslims and not the terrorists, but wouldn't the security of Americans be a bigger deal.If this were the case it would take away all incentive for the terrorists to blow themselves up and conduct suicide attacks.

Memo to Media Establishment: Ignore Blogs at Your Peril By Frank Bajak January 25, 2005 AP Technology Editor CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The managing editor of The New York Times threw down the gauntlet as she stared across a big O-shaped table at the prophets of blogging. Did they have any idea, asked Jill Abramson, what it cost her newspaper to maintain its Baghdad bureau last year? The unspoken subtext was clear: How can you possibly believe you can toss a laptop into a backpack, head for Iraq's Sunni Triangle and pretend to even come close to telling it like...

Guest columnist King County voters in good hands By Corky Mattingly Special to The Times I've been particularly troubled by one recurring comment regarding the gubernatorial recount in King County. It pertains to county Elections Director Dean Logan's professionalism and integrity. There also have been suggestions that Logan's decisions are based on partisan politics and are without justification or regard to Washington state law. As president of the Washington State Association of County Auditors, I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. All 39 counties conducted the recount process according to the rules currently in place, which are...

Sandy Burglar? Thursday January 13, 7:00 pm ET Ibd Scandal: Anyone remember Sandy Berger? To the media, the former national security adviser who might have lifted sensitive documents is a forgotten man. Not entirely forgotten, though. A couple of media outlets -- the New York Post and Fox News -- say the criminal probe of the Berger case is in front of a federal grand jury. But then, no one would ever mistake the Post or Fox with being part of the establishment media. As Washington scandals go, the Berger case had a short shelf life. It was in the...

OK! I give up! At the risk of being told that I'm wasting everyones time here. Can someone please tell me W.I.T.H. a "ZOT" is and what is the significance of the kittens/cats that seem to be mandatorily displayed with any discussion of a zot?

Editor's note: Readers may also be interested in Iran: The Invisible Revolution. During the U.S. presidential campaign, debate over Iran policy received unprecedented attention. The reasons are multifold. With Iran on the verge of developing both nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile capability, Washington policymakers can no longer ignore the Iranian threat, especially when confidants of Supreme Leader Ali Khomenei lead televised chants of "American will be annihilated," as Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati did last June. American concern over a nuclear Iran is multifold. The danger is not necessarily that Iran would conduct a nuclear first strike, although former president Ali Akbar...

SACRAMENTO -- As he tries to reorganize the state's troubled prison system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ignoring the key part of a plan recommended in July by a special panel he appointed, administration officials, lawmakers, experts and advocates said Wednesday. The panel chaired by former Gov. George Deukmejian proposed eliminating the California Department of Corrections, California Youth Authority, and California Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, merging them into a new Department of Correctional Services run by a 10-member commission appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. "This system is in chaos," Joseph Gunn, executive director of the Corrections...

<p>There is a pic of Evita and Lurch under the headline, which currently is unclickable. More news to follow, I would gather.</p>

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