Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of the Iraqi Shiite’s holiest shrines, destroying its gold dome, and leading to more than 90 reprisal attacks. The top US commander and ambassador promised that the US would pay to help rebuild the shrine.
Cutting Off Your Own Nose
70,000 people have joined protests in Pakistan against the Muhammad cartoons. In their anger over the insult they have torched restaurants, burned movie theatres, destroyed a bus station, and ransacked the primary mobile phone operator in the country. Protestors have
Feel the Pain
Attorneys for murderer Michael Morales are trying to get a San Jose federal judge to agree that it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose the death penalty by lethal injection. They are concerned that the chemicals may not act
It is Not a Good Sign When …
You have been to the auto repair shop so often that when you walk in they do not have to ask for your name or car description before pulling your records up on the computer.
“I” Am More Important Than Your Free Speech Rights
Responding to ongoing violence in the Middle East from the cartoons depicting Muhammad, the Vatican issued a statement saying: “The right to freedom of thought and expression … cannot entail the right to offend the religious sentiment of believers.” In
Arrest all the Democrats
Cindy Sheehan was arrested right before President Bush’s state of the union address for wearing a shirt protesting the war in Iraq. That apparently is considered a “demonstration” – which is not allowed in the Capitol building. OK, this nut