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  • Danish youths rampage for a sixth night

    02/17/2008 5:43:16 PM PST · by Plane_Guy · 64 replies · 167+ views
    World Digest
    Groups of youths torched schools and cars in a sixth consecutive night of violence across Denmark, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, police said Saturday. Forty-three people were arrested. The spate of vandalism started last weekend, and some believe it intensified with the reproduction of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday. The unrest spread across Denmark, with youths torching dozens of cars and buildings and lobbing rocks at police and firefighters in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Ringsted, Slagelse and other cities, officials said. Police said they were not sure what triggered the unrest. Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting...
  • House rejects Medicare drug plan means-testing. (I see stupid people!!)

    10/09/2003 6:57:19 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 23 replies · 261+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 8 Oct 03 | By Amy Fagan
    <p>House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs.</p> <p>The House on Tuesday defeated, on a 234-161 vote, a Republican motion that would have asked House and Senate negotiators to include "means-testing" as part of the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit Congress is trying to create.</p>
  • Delegate criticizes university sex show.

    09/30/2003 11:48:17 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 5 replies · 281+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 29 Sep 03 | By Mary Shaffrey
    <p>Delegate Robert G. Marshall, who last spring denounced James Madison University's "SexFest 2003," is now demanding answers from another state school: Virginia Tech.</p> <p>Mr. Marshall said Virginia Tech misused taxpayer funds last week when school officials allowed Virginia Tech TV to tape on campus a "Sex Talk Live" show during which students discussed sex.</p>