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"How I helped OJ Get away with Murder" confesses Mike Gilbert.

On Monday “How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse”... more

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Christine's recent hospitalization, OJ told the cops that she fell down at the gas station.

This girl is in danger. I wonder if that was before or after OJ found out about the new quasi-confessional coming out, How I... more

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Anti-bear spray discharge closes Alaska airport

JUNEAU, Alaska - The airport serving Alaska's capital city doesn't have to worry about bears coming around anytime soon.... more

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Man claims penis amputated without consent.... can you say ----> Malpractice Insurance?

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a... more

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Woman finds Bat dead in coffee filter....... after she drank the coffee! BLEK!

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - It wasn't just the caffeine that gave an Iowa woman an extra jolt after she had her morning coffee. It... more

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GTA IV whores: how do you kill yours? Truth: 14-17 yr olds kill them, and is it too graphic?

Grand Theft Auto, has a long history of mom's saying it's too violent and teens saying they are mature enough to handle... more

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Top 10 Energy Questions for the US Senate

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) submitted the following ten questions for Judiciary Committee members who participated in the hearing:

1. Do you understand the fundamental economic principle of supply and demand for commodities pricing in the oil market?

2. Oil is a global commodity, bought and sold on the world market. Given that the nine largest private oil companies hold less than 5% of the entire world’s proven oil reserves, isn’t it more likely that the law of supply and demand is “manipulating” current prices than the five corporations represented at your witness table?

3. As a U.S. senator, you have control over oil production on U.S. federal government lands. Taxpayers own these lands and the energy that lies beneath them, but 97% of the federal OCS and 94% of onshore government lands are not being used. Are you willing to help increase the world’s supply of oil -- and thus reduce the price of oil and gasoline -- by allowing more U.S. energy to be produced from these lands?

4. The corporations represented at the hearing today produce roughly two million barrels of oil per day in America, for American consumers, with an American workforce. How many barrels of American oil, based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates, have each of you voted to produce?

5. How often have each of you voted against supplying American consumers with 10.4 billion barrels of oil from ANWR, 85 billion barrels of oil from the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and 2 trillion barrels of oil shale in the West?

6. For those of you who have voted to restrict American energy supplies, especially during periods of increased demand, how are your actions any different than those that you have frequently ascribed to OPEC?

7. The sum of the American resources noted in question five is 2.095 trillion barrels of oil. The total proven oil reserves in the entire world is 1.3 trillion barrels. Which number is bigger?

8. As the gap between supply and demand expands, oil prices increase, and oil company profits rise. What’s the best way for oil company executives to send the entire U.S. Congress a “thank you” note for keeping energy supplies down and corporate profits up?

9. At today’s prices, the United States is sending $1.5 billion overseas -- per day -- to import oil from foreign countries. Do you think it would be a good idea to spend at least a fraction of that sum producing oil here in the United States?

10. When was the last time you filled up your own gas tank? The Institute for Energy Research (IER) submitted the following ten questions for Judiciary Committee members who participated in... more

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Top Ten Democratic Attacks on Obama - Did they go away overnight?

Top Ten Democratic Attacks on Obama 1. “Shame on you, Barack Obama. … Enough with the speeches and the big rallies... more

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Can the Left Close the God Gap?

Last weekend, a coalition of pro-family and faith-based organizations hosted the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. But... more

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Darfur's Half-Decade of Genocide

It seems an eternity since the bloodshed began. Back then, oil was $30 a barrel, Saddam was still sitting, however uneasily, on his throne in the Baghdad Presidential Palace and the Oakland Raiders were the second best team in football. Today -- five years later -- oil has eclipsed $100 a barrel, Saddam is ancient history and the Oakland Raiders are in disarray.

Much has changed since March 2003. But one thing remains obstinately the same: the slaughter of innocents in Darfur. Over the last half-decade, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and another 2.5 million (continuing now at 30,000 a month) have been driven from their homes in Sudan’s western region.

The world’s most recent flailing attempt to quell what the United Nations calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” was to have taken place on January 1, when the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was supposed to send 26,000 soldiers and policemen to Darfur. Instead only 9,000 troops (roughly one soldier per 22 square miles) were deployed.

That outcome -- the U.N.’s humiliating failure in Darfur -- is the one the Sudanese government, responsible for arming and directing the Janjaweed, Arab militias behind most of the bloodshed, seems determined to produce. Recently, the International Criminal Court accused Ahmad Haroun, former Sudanese minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs, of targeting civilians in attacks on four villages in west Darfur in 2003 and 2004. Accusations against Haroun include personal responsibility for murder, rape and pillaging. But although the Sudanese government has known for a year about the case against Haroun, it refuses to prosecute him or send him to The Hague (where the International Criminal Court is located) for prosecution. Instead, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir promoted Haroun to lead a Sudanese national group overseeing UNAMID.

In mid-February, 12,000 Darfuris were forced to flee into neighboring Chad when the Sudanese army launched a major assault on two Darfur towns. At least 100 civilians were killed in the attacks. Sudan expert Eric Reeves writes that, “Darfur is more dangerous now than it has been in years.”

Meanwhile, access for humanitarian agencies is decreasing as attacks on humanitarian workers have reached “unprecedented levels,” up 150 percent according to the U.N.

It is difficult to say what 2008 will bring for Darfur. Will China’s desire for favorable press coverage during the Beijing Olympic Games compel it to stop underwriting mass murder? Does President Bush’s recent signing of legislation allowing state and local governments to cut investment ties with companies that do business in Sudan portend a more robust response from the United States? How will the emerging political crisis over stalled implementation of Sudan’s separate North-South peace agreement affect chances of peace in Darfur?

Important questions all. Meanwhile, the United Nations -- which this year will mark (quietly, one presumes) the 60th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- has decided after years of neither preventing nor punishing genocide in Darfur that it’s ready to take heroic action.

The World Body recently announced that it would dispatch the world’s most formidable action hero -- Spiderman -- to assist in its peacekeeping efforts. That’s right. The U.N. has contracted with Marvel Comics to start printing cartoons depicting Spiderman fighting alongside U.N. peacekeepers. While it remains to be seen whether or not the marketing ploy will help boost the image of the hapless U.N., it’s become increasingly clear that any U.N.-brokered peace in Darfur will be purely fictional.
It seems an eternity since the bloodshed began. Back then, oil was $30 a barrel, Saddam was still sitting, however uneasily, on... more