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 | 13 mar
01:11 | Rep. Eric Massa tickled his staff. Is that normal?
After more than 200 years, Congress has finally forced America to confront the question: Is it gay for one dude to tickle another dude? Freshman Rep. Eric Massa resigned Monday amid claims that he sexually harassed junior male aides. Appearing on Glenn Beck, Massa admitted that he "groped" a male staffer and "tickled him until he couldn't breathe"...
slate.com 47 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
01:11 | Slate's Whipometer: The latest on whether health care reform will pass.
As the health care reform debate enters the home stretch, Slate's crack research and development team is rolling out the Whipometer, a highly sensitive new instrument to measure the bill's chances of passage (which vary by the hour). Check here regularly for the latest on what the House, Senate, White House, and various other players are doing to...
slate.com 47 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:50 | Milk, in bags?
manaman: I live in Washington State where it rains nine months out of the year. Yet every year after summer you find that most of the drivers suddenly forgot how to drive in the ran during our three month mostly dry summer. Almost as bad as the people that freak when we have the first tiny snowfall and drive around at 30MPH on the freeway cause...
escapistmagazine.com 26 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:40 | Graffiti diversion program in Phoenix starts March 2010
Costing communities in the United States more than $8 billion a year, graffiti is a crime that draws youthful offenders from varied social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Nearly half of this unsightly and unlawful destruction of property involve...
examiner.com 16 minutes ago |
 | 13 mar
00:12 | Uscis Case Status
Laurie Berkner, Uscis, Big Ten Tournament, Mean Creek, … | Work Laurie berkner uscis big ten tournament mean creek evan turner uscis.gov sec tournament 2010 schedule lebron james steroids uscis case status ohio state. Uscis Case Status - John King's Blog United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (Department) is the governmental body that...
xtsale.com 12 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:04 | Graffiti diversion program in Phoenix starts March 2010
Costing communities in the United States more than $8 billion a year, graffiti is a crime that draws youthful offenders from varied social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Nearly half of this unsightly and unlawful destruction of property involve...
examiner.com 20 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:04 | DeKalb, MS dog rescue bit off more than they could chew
Kemper County Sheriff’s Office, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and United Animal Nations (UAN) responded to a call for confiscating and rescuing approximately 70-80 dogs and some cats from one property in Kemper County, DeKalb,...
examiner.com 21 minutes ago |
 | 13 mar
00:01 | Big Dan's Big News March 12, 2010
Samantha Bee reports from REAL American's Green Zone, the safe haven from socialism - FOX "news" - where FOX has been clear about the need to fight government power...until the Republicans are back in charge, at which point it will be everyone's "patriotic duty" to DEFEND GOVERNMENT POWER like they said we should do during the Bush years: The Daily...
bigdanblogger.blogspot.com 23 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:00 | Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards
AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The vote...
newsbag.org 24 minutes ago |
| 13 mar
00:00 | Probe Jos Massacre, Rights Group Tells Jonathan
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW), a United States based global human rights federation, has called on Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, to probe the massacre of at least 200 Christian villagers in Jos, the troubled Plateau State capital, on March ...
scoop.co.nz 25 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:59 | Looking Up: Marvels in the March twlight
If you have a clear, open view to the west, this is a good time to marvel at the wonders of the universe after you finish dinner. Early in the evening, as twilight is setting in, look for a brilliant point of light contrasting with the deepening ashen blue. This is the planet Venus, the second rock from the sun. Its nearness to our star and its...
reviewatlas.com 25 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:54 | AP Interview: Kerry: Energy bill more about jobs
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks to reporters following the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Sen. John Kerry, hoping to win over wavering senators, said he is pushing environmental reforms to create jobs and spark energy independence, with climate benefits along "for the ride." In an interview with The...
sacbee.com 30 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:51 | China hits back at US human rights
CHINA has responded to United States criticism of its human rights by publishing its own report on what happens in America. "As in previous years, the US reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation...
shanghaidaily.com 33 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:48 | Pelosi: House Will Attach Student Loan Reform To Health Care Bill
ABC News’ Mary Bruce Reports: House Democrats plan to attach reform of the federal student loan system to the health care overhaul legislation, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said today. Folding student loan legislation into the reconciliation bill for health care reform “fixes” could allow the Obama administration to pass two of their top...
abcnews.com 36 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards
AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Father’s commitment to a purely secular government and...
newsbag.org 44 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | Carl E. Taylor, Pioneer in International Health Care Studies, Dies at 93
Dr. Carl E. Taylor, an architect of a 134-nation agreement that established primary health care as a universal right, died on Feb. 4 in Baltimore. He was 93. The cause was prostate cancer, said the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he was a professor emeritus and faculty member for 48 years. Dr. Taylor conducted research in...
newsbag.org 44 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards
AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The vote...
newsbag.org 44 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | Beliefs: Beliefs: A Christian Overture to Muslims Has Its Critics
January was an ugly month in Malaysia. At least 10 churches were firebombed or vandalized, as was a Sikh temple. Severed boars’ heads — particularly offensive to Muslims, who are not supposed to eat pork — were found on the grounds of two mosques. The cause of this inter-religious strife was a court battle over whether non-Muslims may use the...
newsbag.org 44 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | The war on terror: taking Jihad Jane | Marina Hyde
A civilised justice system might have seen Colleen LaRose’s eccentricities as requiring help. Instead, she may face life in prison Without wishing to undermine her twin commitments to holy war and talking to cats, the self-styled Jihad Jane might be the war on terror’s least effective bogeywoman. In fact, let’s not be gender specific. She...
newsbag.org 44 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:40 | Lonely death of Juanita Goggins, trailblazer of US civil rights
Neighbours were oblivious that recluse who froze to death in her home was first black woman on South Carolina legislature The neighbours knew Juanita Goggins only as an elderly recluse with no friends and a family that was rarely seen. Goggins was so private that she instructed a neighbour who delivered groceries to leave them at the door, ring the...
newsbag.org 45 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:39 | Clinton slams Israel on housing announcement
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the release of the State Department's 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Thursday, March 11, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's...
sacbee.com 45 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:38 | Volvo North America Reports January Sales Drop
Volvo Cars of North America, LLC, reported 7,819 sales in the United States for the month of January. Compared to the figures reported last year for the same month, the numbers are down by 12 percent. Overall Volvo sales for North America including Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, were 8,628. The number is 11 percent down compared to the start of...
opda.mobi 46 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:38 | FBI Hoaxes Boost Online Fraud
Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey. The e-mail phishing scams represented 16.6% of all complaints. The next closest...
wired.com 47 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:35 | Shifting Iconography
José Gregorio Hernández, a pious Venezuelan physician, often provided the poor with medical treatment free of charge. After his death, miracles were attributed to him and 60 or so years after his death the Vatican conferred the title of Venerable upon him. He may someday be declared a saint. While not well known outside Venezuela, he’s widely...
tor.com 49 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:31 | U.S. Steel asks to add Cabot Gas CEO to board of directors
United States Steel Corp. Director Robert J. Darnall is retiring at the end of the month and the board is asking shareholders to replace him with Dan O. Dinges, chairman, president and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., according to a proxy statement filed March 12 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (X)
bizjournals.com 53 minutes ago |
| 12 mar
23:26 | Think About It- Greek tragedy
Over the last few weeks the world has been witnessing the slow collapse of the government of Greece. Their government has spent and borrowed their country into a situation that threatens the economic security of the European Union. Their budget deficit approaches 13 percent of their GDP and is considered unsustainable. The problem is that if Greece...
wickedlocal.com 58 minutes ago |
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