I’m sure many of you have noticed that Erik Wong, who is back in school, has been off the site, and it has been entirely maintained by myself. As many of you know, it is excruciating work, demonically demanding of my time. As such, the surge in growth in activity in SAFE finally hit a [...]
Press TV: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the trial and punishment of the invaders of Iraq, saying such a move would end terrorism. “Those behind such a wrong decision, which led to the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, must be punished,” Ahmadinejad said in an interview with al-Alam news channel [...]
Press TV: Multiple bomb explosions at a Shia Muslim gathering in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have left at least 28 people dead and 200 others wounded. Three bombs went off in quick succession during a crowded mourning procession in the Karbla Game Shah area of Lahore on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. [...]
Los Angeles Times: A week after exiting court-ordered rehab, Lindsay Lohan said she’s put her legal problems behind her and wants to start acting in movies again. “I want my career back,” she told Vanity Fair magazine. “I want the respect that I had when I was doing great movies. And if that takes not [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles —Apple is taking a bite out of online TV rental prices. The computer maker, which revolutionized the music industry nine years ago with its iPod and online iTunes store, said Wednesday it is revamping its Apple TV set top box to offer TV shows for [...]
CNN: [Updated at 11:47 a.m.] Swedish prosecutors will not rule Tuesday on charges against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, a prosecution representative said, reversing an earlier statement. [Posted at 9:13 a.m.] Swedish prosecutors questioned Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, for about an hour Monday, his lawyer said Tuesday, following complaints against him [...]
New York (AP) – – WASHINGTON — The State Department says the imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York is returning to the United States on Wednesday. State Department spokesman Mark Toner says Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has completed a Persian Gulf trip that [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday began the arduous process of coaxing and pressing the main Middle East participants to define and embrace a comprehensive peace settlement. But he had to begin by joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in strongly condemning a fatal attack on the West Bank and declaring [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car. Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger [...]
Washington Times: The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state. The signs were posted [...]
The Hill: The rancorous debate over a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is threatening to sweep away the political détente long reserved for the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Solemn memorials and tributes to the fallen have become tradition for the annual observance, along with a bipartisan understanding — if not an outright agreement [...]
DEVELOPING: Police in Maryland are responding to a hostage situation after reports that a man with a handgun entered the Discovery Channel headquarters building in Silver Spring and fired at least one shot. An official with the Montgomery County Police Department confirmed to Fox News that a man with an explosive device is holding at [...]
The Hill: Some of the nation’s top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest questions burning up the blogosphere today.

 Today’s question: Is Sen. Murkowski’s defeat in Alaska’s Senate GOP primary good news for Republicans or Democrats? Andy Roth, vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth, said: It’s good [...]
Fox News: Voters prefer Republicans to Democrats on seven of nine key election issues – including an 11 point margin on the economy – according to a new poll from Gallup and USA Today. The only two winning issues for Dems were the environment and health care, and on health care it was only a [...]
Washington Post: The number of illegal immigrants entering the United States has plunged by almost two-thirds in the past decade, a dramatic shift after years of growth in the population, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. Between 2000 and 2005, an average of 850,000 people a year entered the United States [...]
Bloomberg: General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. reported sales declines that exceeded analysts’ expectations as the U.S. auto industry headed for its worst August in 28 years. Chrysler Group LLC deliveries rose more than expected. GM said deliveries fell 25 percent to 185,176 from 246,479 last August, when the U.S. government’s “cash for clunkers†[...]
North Carolina (AP) – – A hurricane warning was issued for North Carolina on Wednesday as Hurricane Earl barreled toward the East Coast packing winds of 125 mph. The National Hurricane Center said Earl, a powerful Category 3 hurricane, could make landfall on the Carolinas as early as Thursday. The center also extended a hurricane [...]
