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China TV Network Apologizes for Fire

BEIJING — China’s national television network on Tuesday blamed an illegal fireworks display by its employees for igniting a blaze that destroyed a futuristic luxury hotel and theater here.

Lies On The Prize

During the past election, and I'm preaching to the choir, many promises were made to a relatively, politically-ignorant support base that bought the line unconditionally. However there are some people who know how the world operates, and just because Barack Obama claims he can heal the sick, shade us from the Sun, and fix the dollar, they know it don't make it so.

Chase Ends, Bentley Driver Dies at Hospital

The driver of a white Bentley with Illinois license plates who led police on a circuitous slow-speed pursuit on Los Angeles freeways that ended with a lengthy stand-off died later at at St. Joseph's hospital, police officials said Tuesday morning. A source told the LA Times that the driver, identified later as Mustafa Mustafa, had shot himself.

Japan’s Consumer Sentiment Stays Near Record Low on Job Cuts

Japan’s consumer sentiment stayed near its lowest level in at least 26 years in January, indicating households are likely to keep cutting spending.

UBS Plans to Cut Jobs, Return to Profit After Loss

UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, plans to eliminate an additional 2,000 jobs at its securities unit and return to profit in 2009 after a record loss last year.

Husband and Wife Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide, Police Say

POTTSVILLE, Pa. — An eastern Pennsylvania man and his wife are dead in a domestic shooting. Pottsville police say they were called to the couple's home by the wife just before 8:45 a.m. Sunday.

Church Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison

An out-of-work truck driver smiled Monday as he pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tennessee church last summer because he considered the liberal church "a den of un-American vipers."

Harry Potter Star Killed After Prediction ‘Someone Is Going To Die’

Rob Knox, who plays the character Marcus Belby in the forthcoming film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was allegedly stabbed five times while trying to protect his younger brother.

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Politicians

All the huffing and puffing about the latest political wunderkind-Michael Ignatieff- who is going to solve all of our problems is enough to make the Gods laugh themselves into a fit. Iggy is even being hailed in some quarters as Canada's answer to Barack Obama.

Collins and Snowe

Senators Collins and Snowe are at it again! Ostensibly unaware of constituent woes — purloined retirement funds, record unemployment and an economy on the rocks — the iconoclastic duo is precariously poised to compromise the values of this great nation one last time. Advocates of laissez-aller bi-partisanship, both moderates appear to be sidling with the libertine wine-and-cheese without borders crowd who champion la cause célèbre of Obama’s oxymoronic S-1 Stimulus Bill. The proposal, of course, is riddled with Democratic paybacks that reek of socialism and fiscal irresponsibility.

Obama’s Middle East Stumble

With every passing day, I am beginning to believe that President Obama lives in his own world, a kind of parallel universe to the real world. Speaking from Obama World, he is convinced that if enough kind and gentle words are spoken, he can personally change the Real World. He can’t.

Gaddafi condemns Africa democracy

Speaking at the AU summit in Ethiopia, Col Gaddafi said Africa was essentially tribal and political parties became tribalised, which led to bloodshed.

January job losses most since ‘74

-Michael E. Kanell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The nation’s economy lost 598,000 jobs last month, the largest single month of job losses since the economy was staggering through the energy crisis of 1974, according to the monthly report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Bush Was Right. Again.

- Monica Crowley You'd never know it from listening to the lamestream media this weekend, but Iraqis went to the polls in nationwide provincial elections. Turnout was strong, and there was not a single major act of violence.

People Need To Wake-up To The Dangers of CO

Toronto Ontario, February 5, 2009 – With what seems like weekly news reports of deaths and near-tragedies caused by carbon monoxide poisoning this winter, the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (CAFC) -- and the Ontario Fire Marshall's Public Safety Council have joined forces with a leading CO alarm manufacturer to issue a free public education pamphlet online that it hopes will protect families and save lives.

President Obama Taps Anti-Hunting, Animal Rights Extremist for Regulatory Czar

Washington, D.C. – President Obama has appointed his old friend and colleague, University of Chicago Professor Cass Sunstein, to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein is a rabid enemy of Americans’ Second Amendment freedom, and harbors radical ideas about animal rights that only the most ardent PeTA activist would love. Now he will run the federal office that oversees all government regulations.

The Action Americans Need

- Barack Obama By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.

Cap and trade plan would send prices soaring and put a staggering burden on U.S. consumers

- Mark J. Perry FLINT, Mi. — At a time when proposals for higher taxes are politically unpopular, Congress is coming up with other strategies to raise the revenue at the expense of the American public.

Egyptian Islamic activist detained at Gaza border

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces detained an Islamist opposition activist on Saturday as he crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip, saying they believed he had entered Gaza illegally via a cross-border tunnel, security sources said.