SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions. The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South [...]
ABC News: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called on the public to rise up in opposition over David Letterman’s “degrading” jokes about her daughter this week. In a Friday morning television interview on NBC’s “Today” show, Gov. Palin said the late-night comedian’s remarks are a “sad commentary on where we are as a culture, as a [...]
The Independent: Chargrilled asparagus and lemon tart – that’s the vegetarian menu for a glamorous cast of musicians, actors, writers and artists starting a mass movement today to limit meat eating and combat climate change. With his daughters, Stella and Mary, Sir Paul McCartney is behind Meat Free Monday, which aims to persuade people to [...]
Iran reform hopes crushed as Ahmadinejad’s hardliners ‘take back Tehran’ Times Online: Fresh violence erupted on the streets of Tehran tonight after tens of thousands of supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poured into the capital to celebrate his disputed victory in Friday’s presidential election. Hours after Mr Ahmadinejad boasted of his “epic achievement†to a huge [...]
SkyNews Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will recognise a two-state solution to the Middle East peace process with the Palestinians. Israel’s Prime Minister Designate Benjamin Netanyu Mr Netanyahu made the call during a major policy speech about his Mideast peacemaking intentions, but said any Palestinian state would have to be disarmed. “In [...]
After more careful consideration, past my state of exhaustion at having completed such a mammoth document, (a document that lays out everything ACTIVE is and how it will function, and therefor, the single document that ACTIVE can no longer continue to progress without), I have decided to lay out some of its more controversial selctions [...]
theweekly Standard by Noemie Emery When Gerard Baker a year ago wrote in the Times of London that Barack Obama had “Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World,” it was widely acknowledged to be a clever satire, but this past week we have broken new ground in divinity politics. Forget the comparisons to our [...]
Related Video Times Online: IRAN’S hardline leaders warned last night that they would crush dissent after opposition supporters protesting against their candidate’s defeat in disputed presidential elections clashed with riot police on the streets of Tehran. In the Iranian capital’s most serious unrest for 10 years, thousands of liberals who claimed the election had been [...]
Sky News Tim Marshall Each motorcycle in the riot squad carries two officers. One at the front to control the machine, one at the back to hit people with a long baton. I was following a small crowd near the Interior Ministry and could feel the tension rising when suddenly the violence began. A team [...]
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The federal judge refused to dismiss Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against former Justice Department attorney John Yoo, claiming he was tortured based on Yoo’s legal justification SAN FRANCISCO — A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge has ruled [...]
