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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Arizona may require voters to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote and identification when they cast their ballots in the November 7 elections...

On August 15th, I posted the following in response to Indra Nooyi’s appointment as CEO of Pepsico: This is a copy of the letter I just sent to Pepsico. Dear BOD: I have been a consumer of Pepsi products as long as I can remember. Indeed, my grandfather bought Pepsi stock in the post-depression era which was subsequently willed to my parents. However, that came to an end today when you announced the appointment of Indra K. Nooyi as your new CEO. I have read her speech where she referred to the US as the "middle finger" of a world-wide...

These are IDF pictures of the American TOW missiles they found with other hezbollah arms...CNN also mentioned they have found some TOWS

Desperately trying to re-capture her media darling status of August 2005 Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre parcel in Crawford, Texas using supporter, Gerry Fonseca to seal the deal. Fonseca says he purchased the 5-acre parcel, which cost more than $52,000. The owner would not have sold the land if it was known it was to be used by Sheehan for political purposes reports KXXV-TV on its web site. *** According to the AP, Fonseca also admits he doubts that any Crawford landowner would have sold to Sheehan or other protesters, so he didn't reveal his connection. Fonseca, who lost...

An Iowa congressman has apologized for disparaging comments he made about a veteran White House correspondent. Republican Steve King was discussing the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Saturday at the state Republican convention when he mentioned 85-year-old Helen Thomas. King said about Zarqawi, "There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he's at." He went on to say, "And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas." A spokeswoman for the two-term congressman says in an e-mail that King has apologized to Thomas. Thomas has covered the White House for nearly 50 years. She's currently...

Michelle Malkin rips the Dixie Chicks a whole new one.(h/t MuscleHead) I had not heard the remark that Natalie Maines made in the London Telegraph, but apparently this chick never learns. "A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism." "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like...

SOMALIA: Two die in protest over World Cup ban in Mogadishu Religious courts banned World Cup viewing, gunment cut electricity Dawn Sunday, June 11, 2006 Mogadishu --- Hardline religious courts shut cinema halls and barred residents of the Somali capital from watching the football World Cup, prompting scores of people to protest the ban in which two people were killed, court officials and residents said on Sunday. Gunmen loyal to the Joint Islamic Courts (JIC) cut electricity, cleared cinema halls and warned residents against watching the football tournament in areas they controlled, forcing a violent protest late on Saturday in...

At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with résumés bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that he is indispensable. Now as President Bush's...

FIVE brothers and sisters who can only walk naturally on all fours are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution, after being found in a remote corner of rural Turkey. Scientists believe that the family may provide invaluable information on how Man evolved from a four-legged hominid to develop the ability to walk on two feet more than three million years ago. A genetic abnormality, which may prevent the siblings, aged 18 to 34, from walking upright, has been identified. The discovery of the Kurdish family in southern Turkey last July has triggered a fierce debate. Two daughters...

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi. "We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said. Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around...

LOS ANGELES -- Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names. Mitsubishi Motors sponsored the poll on the Web site http://www.TheCarConnection.com and more than 2,500 voters cast their ballots during a week of voting that ended this month. Winners were announced Friday. "Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names," said Web site publisher Paul Eisenstein. "Our panel had a difficult time narrowing several hundred down to the 10 our readers voted on. "But...

Just heard it on Fox News Live...

Dunkin' Donuts Employees Charged With Spitting In Coffee Pair Faces Felony Charges POSTED: 6:04 pm EST February 11, 2006 UPDATED: 6:06 pm EST February 11, 2006 BARNSTABLE, Mass. -- Two employees at a Dunkin' Donuts shop on Cape Cod were arrested after allegedly spitting in customers' coffee. Rodrigo Rodrigues, 22, and Junior DaSilva, 26, both of Barnstable, each face a felony charge of distributing food intended or expected to cause injury. Both are free on bail after their arraignment this week, the Cape Cod Times reported. Barnstable police made the arrests Feb. 3 after a six-day investigation prompted by an...

At first, the exit strategy was working well. During a Beijing media conference on Sunday, US President George Bush cut off a reporter who'd told him he seemed to be 'off his game'. He then refused the reporter's request for a 'a very quick follow-up' and strode towards a set of double doors leading out of the room. The problem? The doors were locked. Mr Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors without success. Then turning to face the reporters again, Mr Bush joked: 'I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work.' He was bailed out only...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Ku Klux Klan plans to rally in Austin to support the gay marriage amendment set for the Nov. 8 ballot. The rally planned on the steps of city hall the Saturday before the election will urge voters to favor proposition 2. However, some who support proposition 2 don't welcome the KKK's assistance. One such person is Pastor Ryan Rush of Bannockburn Baptist Church. Rush said that a group that would come in that is characterized as hateful and bigoted is not welcome in this city. He said he doesn't want the Klan as a partner on...

This is funny. The reporter is talking about the flood and how hard it is to navigate a canoe and then two dudes walk by in ankle deep water. Canoe Gaffe

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' law firm contributed $1,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000, Federal Election Commission reports show. Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP PAC, the political action committee of the Houston law firm Miers co-managed, made the contributions on May 19, 2000, two days after Miers contributed $415.91 to the PAC. The contributions were revealed over the weekend in an FEC response to a request by the conservative Republican Study Committee for Miers' campaign contributions, and detailed on the left-leaning worldnetdaily Web site. The report is sure to roil an already sharply divided Republican Party. Many conservatives...

New York, New York (AHN) - Southwest Airlines has confirmed today that it removed a woman from one of its flights over a political message on a T-shirt. The woman says she'll sue. Lorrie Heasley was asked to leave her flight from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon on Tuesday for wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the moniker "Meet the F_ckers," derived from the movie; "Meet the Fockers." A spokesman for Southwest Airlines told CNN that the airline felt that the T-shirt was offensive, adding that the...

A Texas grand jury on Wednesday indicted Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates on charges of conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing the House majority leader to temporarily relinquish his post.