Archive for July, 2007

United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited with United States President George W. Bush at Camp David in Maryland. These are their first formal talks since Brown took office in June. Gordon Brown arrived at Camp David on Sunday, July 30. Monday, they addressed the press in a joint press conference. According to reports, the... »

Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after having a seizure in his summer home in Maine. A statement released by Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg stated that Justice Roberts took a minor fall from the seizure, and has been transported to the Penobscot Bay Medical Center. In addition, she said that Justice Roberts has... »

Citing “league sources,” both CNN/SI and the Boston Globe are reporting that Kevin Garnett is going to the Boston Celtics in a trade involving at least 6 players. This transaction in the United States’ premier professional basketball league NBA, which is contingent on a contract negotiation, would be considered major. The forward, known as “Big... »

Stunt pilot and Marine veteran Jim LeRoy, age 46, died on Saturday, 28 July 2007 at the Dayton Air Show in Ohio, United States, while performing in his signature S2S Bulldog Pitts aircraft, with his companion pilot in a stunt routine. The two planes executed a looping cross near to the ground, but while... »

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, a filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died today at his home on Fårö, Gotland, Sweden. He was 89. The exact cause of death is not known. “It’s an unbelievable loss for Sweden, but even more so internationally,” Astrid Söderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar... »

Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson reports that he raised $3 million dollars in June for his all-but-certain White House bid. According to the Associated Press, this sum falls short of the $5 million goal set for June, which was the first month he set out to fundraise. The $3 million dollars was more than what several... »

 While Muslims are terrorizing innocent people world wide, here in the United States, Muslim/Islamic Extremists are using our own system to further their own political/religious agenda of dominating the world and turning Christians and Jews into Dhimmis. We’re one step closer to being dominated by Islam right here in the United States of America and... »

By Andrew Tully WASHINGTON, July 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President George W. Bush concluded their talks today with a brief news conference at which they pledged they will both help Iraq become stable and asserted that the relationship between their two countries will remain strong. Brown has been prime... »

MOSCOW, July 30, 2007 — Russian prosecutors have pressed new charges against billionaire and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky, who is wanted in Russia on several other fraud charges, is now also accused of embezzling $13 million from the Russian bank SBS-Agro in 1997 to buy property on the French Riviera. Berezovsky lives in Britain, where... »

July 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates today start a key Middle East mission to seek Arab support for the Iraqi government and also discuss weapons sales to regional allies. They will make rare joint visits to Egypt and Saudi Arabia before going on separate... »

By Breffni O’Rourke July 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — For the first time ever, Iraq has won soccer’s Asian Cup, triggering scenes of jubilation around the war-torn country and among Iraqi communities abroad. In Baghdad, fans filled the streets after the Iraqi national team beat a more experienced Saudi Arabian side 1:0 in the July 29 final... »

July 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in the United States for talks today with U.S. President George W. Bush. It’s Brown’s first visit to Washington since becoming prime minister, and much attention is focused on how he will position Britain’s relationship with the Bush administration. RFE/RL correspondent Jeremy Bransten... »

Having failed in their effort to persuade Americans to put the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the U.S. Constitution, despite spending tens of millions of dollars and enjoying the support of Big Media, three Presidents, and dozens of prominent politicians of both parties, the feminists are now trying to give us an even more... »

July 30, 2007– A U.S. government reports says Iraq’s government has failed to take responsibility for reconstruction projects. The special report, by a U.S. inspector-general, looked at how $44 billion in U.S. funds had been spent in Iraq since 2003. The report said the Iraqi government had failed to take control of or maintain many U.S.-funded... »

By Sumedha Senanayake The announcement on July 19 by the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni political bloc, that it was ending its five-week boycott of the Iraqi parliament was seen as a boost to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who desperately needed to show that he is still a leader capable of forming a broad-based... »

A Taliban spokesman has stated that a South Korean hostage has been executed after a deadline had passed on Taliban demands to the Afghan government. “We shot dead a male captive because the government did not listen to our demands,” Qari Mohammad Yousuf, Taliban spokesman told Reuters news agency by phone. “We killed one of... »

Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) could claim victory in Sunday’s House of Councilors elections. The House of Councilors is the upper house in the bicameral National Diet of Japan. Of the 242 seats, DPJ went from 82 to 109 seats, making it the largest party in the House of Councilors. This gain came largely at... »

Described in press materials as having a “low budget”, the production crew of Bratz: The Movie turned to an actual high school, to film picture’s main scenes. Shot in 30 days, during February and March 2007, the film had to work around the roughly 3,479 students at Santee Educational Complex in South Los Angeles, California.... »

A Flybe, Bombardier Q400, had to make an emergency landing at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland after it had engine troubles on its scheduled flight from Manchester. Thirty-six passengers were onboard flight BE7220 when the captain made the Mayday call to air traffic control at approximately 07:40 BST. The captain was forced to shut down one... »

This morning, as I was listening to the Presidential press conference, where British Prime Mister, Gordon Brown was appearing, I heard President Bush talk about the war on terror.  Certainly, that is not a new subject, and from my perspective, neither is the President’s disregard for America’s male victims of violence. At one point, as... »