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Ugliest dog: 3 legs, 1 eye, no hair, all winner

imageGus the dog has three legs, one eye and no hair, except for a white tuft on the top of his head. He's a real winner. The pedigree Chinese crested won the World's Ugliest Dog contest on Saturday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Northern California. His owner, Jeanenne Teed, brought Gus all the way from St. Petersburg, Fla., to compete for the dubious distinction
- Sunday, June 22, 2008

Egypt Deports Eritrean Refuges-Some to Their Death

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC)www.persecution.org has learned that Egyptian authorities deported 400 Eritrean refugees last week on June 11 and 12. ICC also received reports of the deportation additional Eritreans after June 12.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008

Washington’s Unpopular War on Energy

by Ray Nothstine Most Americans have little faith in the federal government to represent their interests. Who can blame them, when their fears are constantly affirmed by Washington's shenanigans? According to polls, presidential and congressional approval ratings are hovering around an all time low. Just 17 percent of American voters believe the federal government represents the will of the people.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008

Stop Bill C-51

By Robert Jason I went to my health store yesterday...and they provided me with a postcard to be sent to your member of Parliament urging him/her not to pass this dangerous, draconian, totalitarian Bill C-51...I mailed that postcard right away....I urge you to do the same...did not cost me a cent...my goodness, our beloved Canada is turning into a fascist, totalitarian state in so many ways - RJ
- Saturday, June 21, 2008

Fuel protests spread across the world

By Ben Harding Reuters MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish farmers marched, Israeli truckers slowed rush-hour traffic and Nepali students stoned cars on Thursday, all angry at rising fuel prices and inflation that they say are crippling their economies.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008

M.O.E. Fails to Learn from Experience

The M.O.E. has granted a "Certificate of Approval" to Horton Township in Renfrew County to install municipal septic storage tanks within 50 m. of a family’s well and home. If a farmer planned to build a manure storage tank however, it would typically be required to be more than 400 m. from a neighbour’s well and home.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008


The two Obamas

By David Brooks, International Herald Tribune God, Republicans are saps. They think that they're in running against some academic liberal who wouldn't wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn't proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they're running against some naive university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008

Obama Does Not Understand Nuremberg

One of the obvious implications of last week’s Supreme Court decision, which granted inmates at Guantanamo Bay the right of habeas corpus to appeal their detention, is that if Osama bin Laden were captured alive by U.S. forces, the al Qaeda founder could end up in a U.S. civilian court afforded all the protections of law abiding American citizens.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008


Putin’s New Evil Empire

Edward Lucas, Standpointmag.co.uk Few things make the bien pensants more uneasy than talk of right and wrong. They flinched when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet bloc, rightly, the «evil empire».
- Friday, June 20, 2008

People power always prevails

Wilf Mbanga, The Zimbabwean It is imperative that every Zimbabwean cast their ballot for the candidate of their choice on Friday. Mugabe’s brutal thugs have been terrorizing the whole country; beating, raping and murdering our countrymen with the sole aim of terrorizing them into voting for his illegitimate regime.
- Friday, June 20, 2008

Hezbollah Poised to Strike?

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS, ABC NEWS Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against "Jewish targets" somewhere outside the Middle East
- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Obama in Canada: ‘Uncle Rocky’ and his Burlington family ties

If you've taken the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Niagara Falls you know what Barack Obama, the potential next leader of the free world, faced in August 2004 when he made the sometimes white-knuckle drive with his wife Michelle.
- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Do your bit to help Zimbabweans vote Mugabe out

Wilf Mbanga Publisher and Editor, The Zimbabwean Zimbabwe has descended into unparalleled levels of media censorship. The Mugabe military junta is determined to cut Zimbabweans off from the rest of the world by ensuring that they are unable to receive news from outside Zimbabwe about what is happening in their own country.
- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Makes renewed threats

By Our Correspondent, The Zimbabwe Times HARARE - President Robert Mugabe on Saturday stood on the most sacred ground in Zimbabwe, the National Heroes’ Acre and threatened to take Zimbabwe to war.
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

University revokes Mugabe’s degree

By Our Correspondent, The Zimbabwe Times BOSTON - The University of Massachusetts has finally resolved an issue that had bedevilled the institution for a year while it sought to sever an embarrassing link with a dictator it once honoured on assumption he was an exemplary leader.
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008




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