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White House, Cheney's Office Subpoenaed
WASHINGTON (June 28) - The Senate subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, demanding documents and elevating the confrontation with President Bush over the administration's warrant-free eavesdropping on Americans. Separately, the Senate Judiciary Committee also is summoning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to discuss the program and an array of other matters that have cost a half-dozen top Justice Department officials their jobs, committee cha...
Jun 28, 2007, 1:53 am - LOTTOMIKE

Friday the 13th Explained? Well, maybe
One of the most commonly held superstitions in our presumably civilized, educated society is that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. In this equation, both Friday and the number thirteen are held to be unlucky, so their sum can only equal double trouble. Friggatriskaidekaphobes or paraskevidekatriaphobics are those afflicted with a morbid, irrational, overwhelming fear of Friday the 13th. Where does this unnatural trepidation of Friday the 13th originate? As the story goes, in orde...
Apr 13, 2007, 3:25 am - ayenowitall

Iran Says Sailors May Face Charges
LONDON (March 26) - Iran warned that 15 British sailors and marines could face charges for allegedly entering Iranian waters and rejected British requests to meet with the servicemen detained off the coast of Iraq . Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki threatened un...
Mar 26, 2007, 7:27 am - LOTTOMIKE

hells angels vs. NYPD
(Feb. 1) - By the time a search warrant was issued late Monday, dozens of heavily armed police officers had spent hours in the biting cold outside a fortresslike East Village tenement that has served for decades as the New York headquarters of the Hells Angels. As sharpshooters looked on from rooftops and a police helicopter circled overhead, the standoff lasted all afternoon. Officers were first dispatched to the building Monday morning, after the brutal...
Feb 1, 2007, 3:38 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Democrats Win Control of U.S. House
Democrats Win Control of U.S. House Updated: 11/8/2006 7:22 AM By: Liz Sidoti, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Democrats won control of the House early Wednesday after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress. From sea to shining sea, the American people voted f...
Nov 8, 2006, 9:33 am - Tenaj

"Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico
Why we need the border welded shut yesterday. Contact your senators, representatives and demand action NOW. Amnesty means letting our guard down for these guys, too. Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico...
Aug 26, 2006, 10:25 am - konane

"Rehabbing Islamic Extremists
Rehabbing Islamic Extremists By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | August 7, 2006...
Aug 7, 2006, 9:51 am - konane

ten years on twa 800 theories persist
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Bolstered by eyewitness accounts and the Internet, the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York 10 years ago spawned a slew of sinister conspiracy theories, most notably the belief that a missile from a U.S. Navy ship was responsible. So prevalent were these theories that the term Pierre Salinger Syndrome -- the belief that everything on the Internet is true -- entered the lexicon. For inve...
Jul 18, 2006, 8:52 am - LOTTOMIKE

"Special ops A-Team helped nail Zarqawi
Special ops A-Team helped nail Zarqawi U.S., British defense chiefs formed task force to kill him 2 months ago Posted: June 8, 2006 1:17 p.m. Eastern Source WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON - When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was killed today by 500-pound bombs dropped by two F-16 fighter jets on a house north of Baghdad, it was the result of int...
Jun 9, 2006, 9:09 am - konane

"Where are the bodies?
Everything you know is wrong By John Stossel Source Twonhall.com Where are the bodies? For years, reporters have been alerting America to one scare after another. Chemicals, cell phones, SARS -- everything is going to kill us! You would think by now we'd be doing nothing but digging graves. Instead, Americans are living longer than ever. Not that you'd ever know that from the mainstream medi...
May 10, 2006, 1:58 pm - konane