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Oil Prices Close In On $126 A Barrel
Oil prices neared $126 per barrel Friday on the eve of the U.S. driving season as a weakening U.S. dollar drove investors to snap up commodities.
Yahoo - Biz
U.S. Military: Al Qeada Leader In Iraq NOT Captured
A man seized by Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul is not Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said on Friday.
Reuters
UN Halts Aid To Myanmar After Junta Seizes Supplies
Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments Friday meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help.
Breitbart
Posted Every Monday
Hezbollah Routs Pro-Govt Gunmen; Controls Beirut
Hezbollah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day of fighting between the pro-Iranian group and fighters loyal to the U.S.-backed governing coalition
Reuters
House Votes to Prop Up $300 Billion in Home Loans
The House on Thursday passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers
Fox
DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale
One Democrat superdelegate is courting the candidates. He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million.
CBS 13
Jobless Claims Post Sharp Decline
The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits fell to 365,000, a decline of 18,000 from the previous week
Yahoo Biz
Venezuela's Oil Reserves Swell To 130 Bln Barrels
Venezuela's new estimate of oil reserves puts the country in second place behind oil-rich Saudia Arabia in the league of countries controlling the world's biggest reserves.
Breitbart
Washington U. Takes Heat About Honoring Schlafly
Washington University's decision to bestow an honorary degree on conservative political activist and author Phyllis Schlafly has stirred outrage among some students and faculty
St Loius Post-Dispatch
Propaganda-Driven Kids Attack Think TankStudents at a California public school have written a series of letters to Chicago's Heartland Institute attacking its members for "destroying our planet" by refusing to endorse the politics of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film
Worldnetdaily
Putin Signals He Intends To Stay In Charge Of Russia
Putin, who became prime minister Thursday, has signaled that he intends to remain Russia's principal leader, at least in the short term — and possibly much longer
AP
Once-Secret Memos Question Clinton's Honesty
A decade before Hillary admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury
Washington Times
Radio France Denounces Capitalism
The front door of the European news bureau of the state-owned Radio France displays a bumper sticker reading "Capitalism … the social disease."
Worldnetdaily
Switzerland Bans Catch-And-Release Fishing
Catch and Release fishing will be banned in Switzerland and anglers in the country will have to demonstrate their expertise by taking a course on humane methods of catching fish
The Chattanoogan
Senate Democrats Seek To Tax Oil Companies
Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package
Yahoo
Maryland Court Denies Islamic Divorce
Saying "I divorce thee" three times, as men in Muslim countries do when leaving their wives, is not enough if you're a resident of Maryland, the state's highest court ruled yesterday
Baltimore Sun
EU Charts The Decline Of The Family
A report unveiled by the European Parliament says there is one marital breakdown and one abortion in Europe every 30 seconds, pensioners now outnumbered teenagers, and more people were living alone.
Times UK
A Rose Is A Rose
U.S. Aims To Unlink Islamic, Terrorism
U.S. officials are being advised in internal documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedeen,
Washington Times
GIGO
Climate Models Overheat Antarctica, New Study Finds
Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Ohio State U.
Science Daily
Redefining Family
Surrogate Mothers Fulfilling Gay Men's Parenthood Dreams
An ever-growing number of gay couples are paying tens of thousands of dollars to have surrogate mothers carry their babies, turning America's concept of traditional family on its head.
AFP
Good Grief
Soldiers Say Porn Ban May Hurt Morale
Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men's magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwöhr.
Stars and Stripes
RIP
New Idea In Mortuary Science: Dissolving Bodies With Lye
The process is called alkaline hydrolysis . It uses lye, 300- degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders similar to pressure cookers
Breitbart
RIP
Eddy Arnold Dies At 89
Eddy Arnold, whose career in country included 27 number 1 hits in a recording career spanning 6 decades and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame, died this morning at 89 in Tennessee
Country Standard Time
Saliva HIV Test Gives Results In Minutes
The McGill University Health Center study demonstrated the efficacy of rapid saliva tests for all subtypes of HIV-1 and HIV-2 and produced results in as little as 20 minutes.
UPI
Moonbats On Parade
Code Pink Protesters Try Witchcraft at Anti-Marine Rallies
"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com
Fox
Our Tax Dollars
Radical Chicano Group Gets Millions In Earmarks
An extremist Mexican "La Raza" group that annually gets millions of U.S. federal grant dollars will receive even more in the next few years thanks to Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank
Judicial Watch
Study
Stay-At-Home Mom Worth Nearly $117,000 A Year
If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year
Washington Times
Strange Stuff
Dog Gives Birth To Green Puppy
A puppy recently born in New Orleans, Louisiana is really standing out among his siblings, all because of his color. You could say this puppy is environmentally safe...he's green.
KARE 11
Late Night Letterman
Top Ten Signs There's Trouble at The Weather Channel
8. Hours of programming devoted to footage of clouds that look like monkeys 9. Weathercasters giggle every time they say, "ball lightning" 10. They're rerunning forecasts from 2004
RightBias
Idiot Of The Week
Woman Tries to Break Breast Implant Records
After eight surgeries, Hershey’s breasts measure FFF. That’s equivalent to two quarts of silicone in each breast
Fox
Cartoons
Current Research
Wil, who has autism, has amazed his family and doctors with his expressive work, as most autistic people have trouble keying in on emotions and facial expressions of others.
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