Jul 23, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NEWARK, July 23 - Dozens of New Jersey politicians, officials and prominent rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal probe that uncovered political corruption, human organ sales and money laundering from New York to Israel, officials said. The 10-year investigation, dubbed "Operation Bid Rig," exposed influence-peddling and bribe-taking among a network of public officials ...
Continue ReadingJul 22, 2009 20 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis - Denies he’s a racist, won’t apologize Boston Globe in racist cover-up for racist Obama Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Continue ReadingJul 22, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed rare defiance of his strongest backer, Iran's supreme leader, by insisting on his choice for vice president Wednesday despite vehement opposition from hard-liners that has opened a deep rift in the conservative leadership. The tussle over the appointment comes at a time when the clerical leadership is facing its ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2009 31 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, considered compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures to shrink the human population in a 1977 science textbook. President Obama's "science czar," Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
They have flogging "specialists" in Muslim prisons. Enough said. The Daily Mail: An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged for having a beer in a nightclub, a court official said today. It is rare for a woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to caning - a punishment usually reserved for men. Kartika Sari ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2009 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts. The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters. An investigator for the ...
Continue ReadingJul 21, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Mail: Thousands of heavily armed soldiers have been deployed in Mexico in the government's latest efforts to crack down on the country's drug war. Troops set up roadblocks on major highways in the western state of Michoacan on Saturday in response to a series of drug gang attacks on police. Armed with automatic weapons, soldiers wearing ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Times Online: Increasing numbers of non-Muslims are turning to Sharia courts to resolve commercial disputes and other civil matters, The Times has learned. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) said that 5 per cent of its cases involved non-Muslims who were using the courts because they were less cumbersome and more informal than the English legal system. Freed ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Send these guys to Iraq or Afghanistan, we'd win before the week is out. CNN: A U.N. tribunal convicted two Serb cousins Monday of having burned alive more than 100 Muslims in what the presiding judge called a part of the "wretched history of man's inhumanity to man." Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic were convicted of crimes ...
Continue ReadingJul 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Sonia Sotomayor's measured confirmation performance may have served her well, but it left the bases of both parties feeling that they've missed an opportunity. Liberals are concerned that Sotomayor's non-controversial approach – she largely declined to take positions on major issues, and seemed to side with conservatives on some constitutional matters – cost the Democratic party ...
Continue ReadingJul 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Vice President Dick Cheney has long been a target of Democrats for his role in developing and implementing the Bush White House's anti-terror policies, and Democratic legislators soon may get a chance to hold his feet to the fire over a secret proposal for a CIA hit squad. The proposal never got off the ground, ...
Continue ReadingJul 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Post: BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of their troops. In a curt missive issued by the Baghdad Operations Command on ...
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