Scientists at NASA have recently released the most detailed map of Antarctica ever. NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite took 10,000 photographs of the continent over a period of two years, from 1999 to 2001. 1,100 pictures were chosen to form the mosaic map. Officially titled the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), the map reveals...
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Sean Taylor, starting safety for the Washington Redskins, died this morning from injuries sustained in a shooting Monday in his Miami, Florida home. The hard-hitting safety was a Pro Bowl selection last season, and was second in the National Football League (NFL) this season in interceptions, with five. Police responded to a 911 emergency...
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Sean Taylor, starting safety for the Washington Redskins, died this morning from injuries sustained in a shooting Monday in his Miami, Florida home. The hard-hitting safety was a Pro Bowl selection last season, and was second in the National Football League (NFL) this season in interceptions, with five. Police responded to a 911 emergency...
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At the conclusion of the Annapolis Conference, United States President George W. Bush read a statement of joint understanding by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and President Mahmoud Abbas. Commenting on the statement, President Bush said that: “Today, Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is key to realizing...
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At the conclusion of the Annapolis Conference, United States President George W. Bush read a statement of joint understanding by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and President Mahmoud Abbas. Commenting on the statement, President Bush said that: “Today, Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is key to realizing...
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For better or worse, www.feministing.com is one of the top blogs on the web, ranked #337 by Technorati. Regrettably, yesterday lead Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, took a cheap shot at me, inverting the meaning of my recent blog post The Sexist...
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A British teacher working in Sudan was arrested on Sunday after parents allegedly complained that she had insulted Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. She faces a possible six months in prison, 40 lashes, or a fine. A blasphemous bear? Gillian Gibbons, 54, who had arrived at Khartoum’s Unity High School in August,...
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A British teacher working in Sudan was arrested on Sunday after parents allegedly complained that she had insulted Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. She faces a possible six months in prison, 40 lashes, or a fine. A blasphemous bear? Gillian Gibbons, 54, who had arrived at Khartoum’s Unity High School in August,...
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In a third night of violence, that followed after two teenagers on a motorbike died in a collision with a police patrol vehicle on Sunday night, French authorities are reporting only sporadic clashes in the Val-d’Oise department. However, for the first time, unrest was reported outside of Paris suburbs. The southern city of Toulouse...
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On November 15, 2007, Wikinews reported about an internal United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo, in an exclusive report, detailing the threat of al-Qaeda and Hezbollah to the mainland of the U.S. and U.S. interests abroad. The authenticity of the 27-page document can now be undeniably confirmed. Wikinews, in another exclusive report,...
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Italian opposition leader and ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi declared the former alliance known as Casa Delle Libertà(CDL), or House of Freedoms an “ectoplasm”, and called for the creation of a new party, the Partito del popolo della Libertàor Italian People’s Party for Freedom. He stated Sunday, after suddenly abandoning the Forza Italia...
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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave up his uniform in a ceremony yesterday in Rawalpindi. He handed power over to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, after being the leader of the army for nine years. In his final address as leader of the army, he said that the...
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New data from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission suggest that Venus was once Earth-like but later evolved in a different way. The findings, published in the journal Nature on Thursday, also confirm that there is lightning on Venus. “The two planets were, in fact, very similar in the earlier days of the...
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Usually Hillary Clinton keeps her dagger stare under wraps. But this past Monday CBS News anchor Katie Couric talked to Hillary Clinton about the tightening race for the Democratic nomination. Straining to keep her anger under control, Clinton complained, “I have absorbed a lot of attacks for several months now,†and vowed to counter...
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The cloudy crystal ball of socialist intellectuals must be, not just cleaned, but consigned to the trash heap. Most commentators blame corporate greed and poor judgment for the subprime mortgage meltdown and the resulting squeeze in the financial community. In reality, excessive Federal spending on the socialist welfare-state inaugurated by the New Deal, and...
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A letter from Felicia, a reader, about the domestic violence system:
Dear Glenn:
I was reading an article you wrote about Restraining Orders/Protective orders being overused in our judicial system. I wanted to share a story with you that has me really upset and I thought you might be interested.
My husband drank too much one night...
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Hypocritical Attitude
How do people typically react when hearing about or witnessing a woman-hits-man situation? Other than presumptively asking “What did he do?” they don’t seem to care. The implication is that the man deserved it, because women are naturally peaceful, and men are naturally violent. Besides, even if he didn’t deserve it, it’s just...
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In my blog post Misogyny and Stupidity Over Female Baseball Umpire, I pointed to one stupid, sexist reaction to prominent female umpire Ria Cortesio. Along the same lines, a reader whose name I will mercifully not include, wrote me the following letter:
"I deeply resent the presence of women as commentators or participants during college...
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I don’t pay much credence to polls, or “how a candidate looks†in a given caucus state, especially with the general election still almost a year off. The candidates pay attention to these things though, not because of the potential trends they might represent, but the effect they could have on the public psychologically,...
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Background: I've criticized Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (pictured) on numerous occasions, including my co-authored column When Beating up on 'Deadbeat Dads' is Unfair (Houston Chronicle, 1/7/07). Abbott often beats his chest during his frequent crackdowns on low-income fathers he labels "deadbeat dads."
I get as many complaints about Abbott and the Texas Attorney General's...
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