Well, this is a crock:
Sudan's conviction of a woman for indecency for wearing trousers violates international law and is emblematic of wider gender discrimination in the Islamic country, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
Well, this is a crock:
Sudan's conviction of a woman for indecency for wearing trousers violates international law and is emblematic of wider gender discrimination in the Islamic country, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
These kids today don't know how lucky they have it. They're about to have a "when I was your age" moment to share with their grandchildren:
President Barack Obama will tell the nation's schoolchildren today he expects "great things from each of you."
Gov. Mitch Daniels, writing in The Wall Street Journal:
It's like they had a secret meeting or something. Evansville:
If the City Council adopts proposals by the city's Water & Sewer Utility, starting next year, Evansville residents will receive two new 96-gallon containers — one for trash and the other for recyclable refuse.
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Ouch. The Food Network people won't like to read this:
This week's sign that End Times are near:
A Warwickshire woman has changed her name to include 'Michael Jackson' in honour of the late pop legend.
Marina Jane Michael Jackson, of Warwick, said she had been a life-long fan of the star and his death prompted her to take his name by deed poll.
She says all her friends think "it's a little crazy." Nah, Mikey, I'll bet nothing you do really surprises them.
Levi Johnston has managed a remarkable achievement-- he's made even the New York Times's Gail Collins feel sympathy for Sarah Palin:
This so-called "group of experts" must be delusional. President Obama has assured us that such things could never happen, and anybody who says otherwise is just a rightwing crank:
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Guess all of us with the penny jars might be the smart ones. We can take them to the nearest casino and have hours and hours of fun:
The penny slot machine, once a joke among serious gamblers, is the hottest form of betting during this recession.
This is one I never heard of before:
After an upswing in claims of prescription drug thefts, the Greenwood Police Department is no longer taking most reports of the crime.
Investigators said the majority of the claims are actually from people abusing the drugs, because a police report paves the way for a doctor to issue more prescription medication, 6News' Ben Morriston reported.
People often say of government employees, "Oh, they're nothing but a bunch of crooks." Occasionally, they are right:
Richmond city officials are still unsure how a woman who spent six months in prison for theft and forgery in Madison County, Ind., was hired as office manager at the Richmond Street Department eight months after her release.
Another justice ready to bite the dust?
I'd be offended by this, except for the fact that he's right:
Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s -- specifically the so-called Woodstock Generation. For the most part, they're thoroughly undeserving of the immortality they've pretentiously bequeathed to themselves.
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Imagine a company that lets everything it touches spin out of control and always spends more than it takes in, creating an enormous debt that can never be paid off and that threatens everything the company wants to do in the future. What should happen to the employees of that company? Fire them all? Give them a severe reprimand and a drastic cut in pay? No, silly:
At least our senators are only aliterate -- they pass 1,000-page bills without reading them because they choose to. Looks like the Canadians now have the real thing:
Jacques Demers, the Stanley Cup-winning coach who has spoken frankly about his lifelong battle with illiteracy, was appointed Thursday to the Canadian Senate.
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Seventy years ago this week the war began that saw millions die. But Pat Buchanan says wasn't the fault of Hitler, who was just a peace-loving guy goaded into war by Poland's stubborness, made possible by a war guarantee from Britain:
What if you invited legislators to a town hall meeting, but nobody came? Well, improvise:
Cardboard cutouts of Senators Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar, who were not present, were carried up to the podium so attendees could address them.
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David Long is against a casino in Allen County and, furthermore, has not noticed "any major economic development improvements in any of the cities the casinos have been installed." But, on gambling in general:
