Today Judge Vaughn R. Walker dismissed the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit against Uri Geller. Walker dismissed the case, concluding in his 25 page opinion that the United States District Court in San Francisco did not have jurisdiction over Geller, a British subject, or Explorologist, LTD, an English company that holds certain rights to him....
The United States House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan US$152 billion economic stimulus package that gives one-time rebates to United States citizens, US$600 for individuals or US$1,200 for couples plus US$300 for each child. US$300 checks would be sent to people on low-income including retirees on Social Security which was not included in...
A 33-year-old Somalian woman was arrested after she stabbed two pilots in an attempt to hijack a New Zealand passenger plane. The 19-seater on Eagle Airways Flight NZ2279, was travelling from Blenheim to Christchurch when the incident occurred. Eagle is a regional commuter carrier division of Air New Zealand. According to media reports, the...
A local man known for his outbursts and disruptive behavior with city officials killed five people at a city council meeting in City of Kirkwood Thursday before he was shot dead by police. Among those killed were Councilwoman Connie Carr, two police officers and two others at the meeting. The suspect shot and killed...
Background: My recent column Hillary Clinton Proposes Reforming Child Support System to Help Dads, co-authored with Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, has, predictably, been the source of controversy within the shared parenting/fatherhood movement. We dealt with one aspect of this in Blowback over Our Hillary Clinton/Child Support...
In its recently released report called Attacks on the Press in 2007, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said 65 journalists were killed in 2007. According to the report, 32 of these deaths were in Iraq, which has had the highest number of deaths for the second year running. The report says that “journalists...
In the previous post, Novae wrote, "Glenn...have there been other complaints about censoring, or is this a recent thing?" There have been very few complaints about "censoring," and the complaints that I've received are usually from people who are under the misguided notion that I am somehow obligated to give them free reign to post whatever...
Last December, Dr. David Whitehouse wrote a number of articles about the tardiness of Sun cycle 24 and its potential impact on Earth’s Climate. He noted that the apex of solar activity at the end of last century corresponded with the periods’ unusually high temperatures and that temps have been flat since activity abated....
In response to my blog post 'Hillary has been using her husband as an attack dog against Obama, but escapes criticism because of her gender', Bill, a reader, posted a blog comment suggesting anti-Clinton bumper stickers which read "Anyone BUT the bitch!" I wrote Bill back and explained that I've set my blog software to...
In a dramatic blow to traditional organized crime families operating in the New York City metropolitan area, an 80 indictment charging 62 defendants associated with the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno organized crime families of La Cosa Nostra, the construction industry, or its supporting unions — including each member of the Gambino family administration currently...
While I was researching the case of Arthur Bremer, the man who attempted to assassinate presidential candidate Governor George Wallace in 1972 and who has recently been released from prison, I was struck by how much Bremer appeared to be the victim of the females in his life. First there was his troubled and...
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