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    Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

    http://www.edmondsun.com/opinion/local_story_067125346.html EDMOND — The Oklahoma House of Representatives Education Committee has just approved House Bill 2211. The bill is expected to pass the full House, and then to go to the Senate. Its authors describe it as promoting freedom of...
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    Israel warns of invasion of Gaza

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7270650.stm Matan Vilnai said Palestinians risked a "shoah", the Hebrew word for a big disaster - and for the Nazi Holocaust. Cute choice of words, so Palestinians will face "holocaust" if the extremists won't stop?
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    EXPOSURE FEARED: 40,000 LV clinic patients urged to be tested for viruses

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/16067972.html Forty thousand Nevadans soon will receive word that they might have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis strains B and C in what a federal health official called the largest notification of its kind in U.S. history. This is big. Anyone from Nevada here?
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    Group: Churches sell sweatshop crosses

    NEW YORK - A labor rights group alleged Tuesday that crucifixes sold in religious gift shops in the U.S. are produced under "horrific" conditions in a Chinese factory with more than 15-hour work days and inadequate food. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_re_us/crucifixes_sweatshops...
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    School bullying gets attention

    http://newsok.com/article/3144492/1191989623 "Within days of sending out fliers, organizers of Oklahoma's first all-inclusive anti-bullying conference started receiving protest e-mails from Christian conservatives." I guess some bullying is good.
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    Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484162 " Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night." Ok, so while the chances of Saddam stepping down might have been just a wee bit...
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    U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait' Snipers Describe Classified Program

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301431.html?hpid=topnews " A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and...
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    Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges

    MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The jury in the Jose Padilla terror trial has found the American guilty of conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/16/padilla.verdict/index.html Well it's not like any of us thought any differently. It's sad though. No matter who...
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    Police: Boot camp girl dragged with van

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on_re_us/girl_dragged BANQUETE, Texas - Authorities charged the director of a Christian boot camp and an employee with dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van after she fell behind the group during a morning run Didn't see this posted so figured to do...
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    Reservations beyond the law

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-clarkson3aug03,0,1867347.story "For more than a decade, a white man married to an Indian woman sexually terrorized his entire family on the Eastern Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. If his wife complained about the rapes and beatings with a...
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    FBI, IRS searching Stevens' Girdwood house

    http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/9179115p-9095789c.html Federal law enforcement agents are currently searching the Girdwood home of Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens. The news of it is just breaking, wonder what will be said before it's over.
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    White House, Pentagon cite executive privilege to hold up documents on friendly fire

    http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_Pentagon_hold_up_documents_0713.html Ok, so the title says it all I think. I don't like any biased newssites or blogs, but I was linked this and thought to make an exception, since in the bottom of the article it links to actual government site talking...
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    Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070902065_pf.html As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one...
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    Senator sorry after number appears on D.C. Madam's list

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/09/dc.madam.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, apologized Monday night for "a very serious sin in my past" after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called "D.C. Madam."...
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    Much of US favors Bush impeachment: poll

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/pl_afp/uspoliticsbush WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday. This was a bit news to me that it's so...