Child sex, drug cases ‘too costly’

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions plans to stop prosecuting all summary child sexual assault cases and drug offences under a proposal submitted to the State Government… Continue reading

Cease-Fire Eyed to Stop Violence in Iraq

U.S. military commanders are talking with Iraqi militants about cease- fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence, the No. 2 American commander said Thursday.

Lt. Gen… Continue reading

The GOP would be wise to listen to Ron Paul’s message

Two-thirds of Americans can now see that starting a war in Iraq was a mistake. The majority of Republicans still do not see it… Continue reading

While President Bush authorizes the CIA to bankroll and arm the real Al-Qaeda in Iran.

Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who once wrote stinging essays condemning Muslims as “bloodthirsty terrorists”, has once… Continue reading

Immigrants Sue Employer for Back Wages

Illegal immigrants who worked long shifts scrubbing theme restaurants for an indicted janitorial firm have signed their names to a lawsuit seeking unpaid wages.

Some of the plaintiffs were… Continue reading

Exposure to pesticides and head trauma may increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, experts have said.

Researchers from Aberdeen University studied the link between environmental factors and Parkinson’s and other degenerative syndromes associated with the… Continue reading

BP is returning to Libya with its largest exploration project, more than three decades after it was thrown out of the north African country when Muammar Gadafy nationalised its oil industry.

The company has been granted… Continue reading

UK lecturers refuse to spy on students
UK university lectures today vehemently rejected a government plan to require academic staff to spy on Muslim student, describing it as a “witch-hunt”.

University and College Union, the main… Continue reading

USATODAY.com

The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

The loss reflects… Continue reading

In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation… Continue reading

Records: Senators who OK’d war didn’t read key report - CNN.com
A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report… Continue reading

Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will… Continue reading

The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse

This was the biggest scandal in the history of the U.S.A history. The story received some newspaper coverage but there… Continue reading

Miss USA
Uploaded by hotternewsThe pageant turned painful for Miss USA Rachel Smith who suffered a rough trek in the evening gown phase. The high-heels proved hellish as she fell to the stage. She… Continue reading

A radical group at a Bronx fundraiser confronted Rudolph Giuliani on Tuesday morning, accusing him of being one of the “criminals of 9/11.”The Republican nominee for president was outside City Island’s Sea Shore restaurant in… Continue reading

David Evans
Mises.org

[A version of tihs article was previously blogged on Mises.org here, and inspired a spirited debate. The author… Continue reading

Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government.

A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a… Continue reading

As Britain’s longest-serving dog warden, Terry Neighbour picked up thousands of animals, became a household name on his beat and received five police awards.

One of his greatest pleasures during 32 years of service was… Continue reading

Massive mortgages are turning a generation of parents and first-time buyers into the modern equivalent of slaves, an alarming report has claimed.Those who manage to scrape on to the property ladder and parents with young… Continue reading

Only 354 of 90,000 police caught on camera speeding or jumping red lights last year were punished.

Last night forces were accused of double standards after it… Continue reading

Bilderberg chasers think they have identified the site of this year’s meeting but, as they say in the trade, “it is not 100%.”

The site is the… Continue reading

Climate hysteria reaches new heights after revelation that government is considering making population switch to vegan diet.

Global warming hysteria has reached a new peak after it was revealed that the British… Continue reading

At Al Rawabi, an expensive nightclub in Al Hami, customers can drink imported Scotch, smoke water pipes and watch a show featuring young Iraqi woman… Continue reading

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease… Continue reading

We Are Change group ask arch-elitist why he admits to working to destroy America in his own book.

As part of a blitz of recent activism in which Al Gore, Rudy Giuliani and the… Continue reading

China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe food products.

The… Continue reading

Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq three years ago, said yesterday she was stepping down from her role as the figurehead of the US campaign against the war.”This is my resignation letter… Continue reading

The NHS has underspent by half a billion pounds as a result of the aggressive cuts imposed by the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, a Guardian analysis of health authority figures has revealed.The size of the… Continue reading