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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced late Friday their decision to approve 42 new housing units in the town of Kiryat Arba near Hevron, where a terrorist murdered a 13-year-old girl in her bed on Thursday. The new houses will be built in the same part of the town where the young victim of that attack, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, lived. Tenders for the housing units in question were initially issued a year and a half ago, but they were frozen for political reasons. The government's decision yesterday essentially green-lighted construction to begin. In addition, the decision...

From the "Stay On Your Side Of The Bed" file ...Let me be clear ...It makes no difference to me what anyone chooses to cuddle up with in bed - whether it is a teddy bear, a wool blankey, a dog, a pork roast, whatever. As long as its legal and it makes him or her happy, go nuts.And that goes for those of you who like to snuggle with shotguns.Knock yourself out.Just make sure you don't knock anyone else out.In Fargo, North Dakota, a woman, who was fast asleep with her shotgun caused it to discharge when she rolled...

Early last year, Alejandro Stephens' long tenure as president of one of California's biggest union locals came to an end after the labor organization he headed merged into a larger local. The Service Employees International Union sweetened Stephens' exit with severance payments and other compensation that totaled nearly $180,000, said union spokeswoman Michelle Ringuette. A condition was that Stephens give up the salary he was receiving from Los Angeles County, Ringuette said. Under an agreement between the union and the county, taxpayers covered the salary of the head of the union local. The separation deal has since become the focus...

The Iranian government newspaper, "Investment" writes that Iran has taken the first steps to increase production of gasoline inside the country with a view to cutting off imports of this strategic item through joint investment of foreign and internal funding, which will begin to stem the flow of foreign exchange leaving the country. Currently, $15,000,000 a day of the country's oil revenues go to toward importing gasoline. This equals 30 million liters of the 70 million liters used daily in Iran, if calculated on a constant 70 million liter usage. When we add the summer driving and seasonal travel, which...