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NEW YORK - The pop singer Boy George appeared briefly in criminal court in Manhattan on Wednesday to answer charges related to his October drug possession arrest. ADVERTISEMENT Following a brief meeting at the bench between the singer's lawyer, Lewis Freeman, and prosecutor Craig Ortner, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara postponed the case to March 8. Boy George, whose birth name is George O'Dowd, wore a long black wool coat, black slacks, a black shirt and gray sneakers with white stripes, and sported a buzz-cut hairstyle and a large blue Star of David tattoo across his forehead. He said...

A United Airlines flight from Eugene to Denver was diverted to Salt Lake City on Wednesday after a University of Oregon graduate student with no criminal record got into a physical fight with another passenger and lunged toward the cockpit, an FBI spokesman said. Bogdana Atanasova Georgieva, 35, a resident of Bulgaria now living in Eugene, tried to run from airport police after Flight 6664 landed at the Salt Lake City airport. "She made a reference about a bomb being on the plane," Special Agent Patrick Kiernan said from the FBI's Salt Lake City bureau. Airport police searched the plane...

Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday said the United States will not be successful in Iraq unless the political landscape better represents the country's minorities. Obama, the nation's only black senator, met with U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Saturday. He said before his two-day trip to Iraq that he wanted to ask U.S. commanders for a realistic time frame on bringing troops home. "What I'm fully convinced of is if we don't see signs of political progress … over a relatively short time frame let's say six months or so we can pour money and troops...

John Kerry - the failed Democrat presidential candidate from 2004 - raised quite a stir with his comments on Sunday's CBS talk show 'Face the Nation' when he referred to American troops fighting in Iraq as terrorists. After it was pointed out by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, Kerry fired back with a clumsy and childish response against Rush and RNC chair Ken Mehlman. Matt Drudge reported this statement by Kerry spokesman David Wade:

There is an e-mail circulating the net in which a father tries to explain the Iraq war to his son by looking at their local problems. Perhaps you have seen it? It is a good example, but I got to thinking of how a liberal might use a similar scenario in explaining life to his young son. In this scenario the father is a liberal, gray-haired ponytail type and the son is a typical 12 year old boy who has questioned the disparity between two neighbors: Son: Dad, why is that one house so nice and that one such a...

By Patrick O’Grady VeloNews editor at large This report filed August 19, 2005 A few irate letter-writers have suggested that we keep politics out of cycling here at VeloNews.com, and we can see their points, once they've removed their Bush-Cheney 2004 caps. After all, the liars, cheaters and dopers infesting politics might teach cycling's liars, cheaters and dopers a few new tricks, and God knows it's already tough enough to tell who's on the up and up these days, no matter how much blood gets drawn or spilled. Still, if the daily papers are going to cover the Recreationist-in-Chief's mountain-bike...

The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it is "beyond belief" that Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin would compare treatment of dangerous enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay to the death of millions of innocent people by oppressive regimes. "Our men and women in uniform go out of their way to treat detainees humanely, and they go out of their way to uphold the values and the laws...

FaithSats and Lunar Crucifices If only rhetoric could fuel spaceships. by Greg Zsidisin Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2004 It's time that we put a giant crucifix in lights on the Moon! Congress has just pushed through a $388 billion spending bill. Into it was snuck a funding increase for NASA to accommodate George W. Bush's plan to return astronauts to the Moon. This puts Bush's vaunted space plan on par with other such last-minute additions as one removing previous barriers to government funding of anti-abortion doctors. It also serves as another reward to Senator Tom DeLay (R-Texas), whom...

THE RIGHT'S COMIC HEROES: ...I'm seeing the "Incredibles" this weekend. I don't think I can stomach "The Polar Express." Christmas itself makes me want to puke. Christmas propaganda, created by that pillar of sanctimony, Tom Hanks, is a highly elevated form of torture.

~snip~Well, at least, nobody has been arrested — so far. Consider the plight of an anti-Bushie in Washington state: "Dear Larry, "Last Thursday I put out one of my Bush/Cheney signs in my front yard. Between midnight and 3 a.m. someone stole it. On Friday night I put out sign No. 2. Since I didn't have to get up early, I thought my dog and I would "stake out" our sign. This time I put the sign a little closer to the gate leading to my backyard. With my dog on an extra long leash, I planted myself on a...

After weeks in which the political discourse was nearly dominated by the scrutinizing of Sen. John F. Kerry's conduct in the Vietnam War era, President Bush now may find himself under the microscope and on the defensive for actions in his past. Kerry supporters are actively questioning Bush's spotty record as a stateside National Guardsmen during the Vietnam War. A former senior politician in Texas is telling people he pulled strings to get Bush into the guard. And an Associated Press investigation has concluded that key documents that should have been written to explain gaps in Bush's guard service are...

CARTER'S REMARKS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, BOSTON Mon Jul 26 2004 19:45:57 ET My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president. But here's what I will be doing: everything I can to put John Kerry in the White House with John Edwards right there beside him. Twenty-eight years ago I was running for president, and I said then, "I want a government as good and as honest and as decent and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." I say this again tonight, and that is exactly what we will have next January...

"BECAUSE of Bush's tax cuts, I saved a million and a half in taxes last year. Does anyone think that's fair?" — Ben Affleck at a John Kerry fund-raiser.

SEATTLE, WA (Talon News) -- After a liberal radio talk show host was confirmed calling for the death of President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for "war crimes," he is now resorting to personal attacks against "reactionary right wing" web sites as well as the Talon News correspondent who exposed him. Talon News reported last Thursday (see original story) that a listener to The Mike Webb Show, which airs from 10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. on 710 AM KIRO in Seattle, Washington, said that Webb had "called for the death of President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld for 'war...

By now most know that Fox News is suing Al Franken for his use of the "Fair and Balanced" slogan. (stealing is nothing new for liberals). In light of this news, I have to wonder why liberals would think that Al should be their point man to counter so-called conservative media....I mean this is THE guy who almost, by his obnoxious untalented self, got Saturday Night Live canceled. Can ANYONE remember ONE funny line, ONE funny sketch, ONE witty comment by this sloth?

Should Senator Patty Murray resign over her comments praising Osama Bin Laden? - Comments praising Bin Laden at a time like this are despicable, especially from a Senator. Patty Murray should resign. - No. Having a challenging discussion about America's future reflects the best values of a free democracyPoll Link Here Nothing will come of her comments. Same old double standard. But she should resign.

America, where pluralism is engraved on the face of a stamp EDITORIAL VOICES By PIERRE TRISTAM Postage stamps are stamp-size windows into national character at its nostalgic or wishful best. In the last five years, the Post Office has issued 236 stamps commemorating, among others, Bugs Bunny, Henry Luce, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Breckenridge the frontier nurse (not to be confused with Gore Vidal's Myra, the frontal androgyny), Uncle Sam and his grasping aunt, Ayn Rand, the Rio Grande, wetlands, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, Wile E Coyote and Road Runner, the White House, and of course, from just...

On election day, California reaffirmed its leadership in guiding freedom-loving Americans into the new millennium when we chose to continue on our Democratic path. While the southern Confederacy, with Texas in the lead, has risen again and won the latest battle, California still fights for the Union cause. We will be victorious because we represent the true American way. We are upholding American ideals of fair compensation for hard work, respect for the environment, equality and free choice for women, and for that matter, democracy for all free Americans. As the richest state and potentially the world's fifth richest country,...