I’ve been following the story in Illinois concerning Governor Blagojevich since the issue of him trying to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat. I believe its safe to say this is a gigantic mess, but I’m not so sure this is entirely the governor’s fault.
I watched yesterday as the governor held a press conference and selected [...]

Bombing in the Gaza strip by Israeli planes heads into its fourth day today, still going strong since they began bombing on Saturday. The bombing began in response to continuous rocket fire from Hamas militants in the Gaza strip after a cease fire was agreed to.
For those that don’t know, Hamas was elected to power [...]

What do you do once you begin spending so much money that you risk facing a one billion dollar spending gap? Easy, instead of cutting your massive spending on programs that shouldn’t be getting as much or any money at all, just go ahead and close down some libraries. That’s what the mayor of Philadelphia [...]

An article on yahoo news tells a story of how a man in Idaho was driving his two children, a boy 12, and girl 11 to see their mother and ended up getting stuck in a snow drift. The man then allowed the children to walk the rest of the way to their mother’s house [...]

The Wall Street Journal
MOSCOW — For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. [...]

So I was at Home Depot the other night, and was able to see a verbal fight over a Christmas tree.
This couple was looking at the different trees “real trees” and had been there for a while looking at the trees. They had decided on two trees and were trying to decide which one to [...]

I came across an article earlier that I found immensely interesting and definitely worthy of being followed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/samaritan_protection
A woman in California was riding in the passenger seat of a car that slammed into a lightpole at 45 mph. A friend was following in a car behind and witnessed the accident. The friend, Lisa Torti, feared that [...]

Story printed by Yahoo News
The story is everywhere already, and in case you weren’t aware, President Bush was nearly assaulted.
An Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at President Bush during his surprise visit to Iraq, which is considered one of the worst insults in the middle east. After the reporter threw his shoes, he was dragged [...]

I’ve been following the coverage on the situation in Greece since a 15 year old boy was killed by an officer last Saturday. Reports indicate that two police officers were confronted by a group of youths that started to throw things at the officers. Things get a bit hazy from here, as the lawyer for [...]

BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and [...]

Clarence Aaron’s road has been long.
Sentenced to three concurrent life terms in prison for introducing two drug dealers in 1993, he has spent the last 15 years in high-security federal prison. He is 39 years old and he will spend the rest of his life in prison — unless the president of the United States [...]

Sometimes I am astounded by the injustices and atrocities of the world, which is rare as I am not easily surprised when something happens in our often cruel world. We should live in a better world, we have the power to do so, but collective greed prevents it. Greed exists everywhere within every person, more [...]

Clarence Aaron was a college boy from Mobile, Ala., when he introduced two drug dealers to each other — the mistake that got him three concurrent life sentences in a high-security federal prison.
But Aaron didn’t grow up destined to be a criminal.
He told his story in a declaration to the court filed earlier this year [...]

I have always been a critic of our child support system. It’s an inefficient joke that needs to be restructured with new people running the program. I’ve read many stories of child support cases where many men have been ordered to pay support for children that weren’t theirs. However I came across a new story [...]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_re_ca/canada_political_crisis
I’m not too buffed up on my Canadian politics, I don’t have a firm grasp of their system, however I have enough general knowledge to know that something is amiss when the Prime Minister can have parliament shut down in the face of a no confidence vote. I’ve always known Canadian politics to be a [...]