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Teen icon Justin Bieber caused a fuss on the set of an Australian chat show during a recent trip Down Under - he swore at a production crew member who touched him. The Baby hitmaker, who is just 16 years old, stunned staff at Sydney-based morning TV show Sunrise last month when he cursed at a floor manager who led him to the performance stage. Sunrise host David Coch tells Aussie radio station Mix FM, "We had him on and he was a thoroughly nice bloke, really decent guy. "Our floor manager was directing him to where he was about...

The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday. "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 05, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Saddam Hussein Verdict Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was convicted in an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity: “The Iraqi people are to be commended for bringing Saddam to justice in an Iraqi court. I commend our brave American troops in Iraq as well, for the trial could not have taken place without the security and logistical support they provided. “Unfortunately, the verdict is a solitary incident in a country wracked by...

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Fidel's ExecutionerBy Humberto FontovaFrontPageMagazine.com | October 14, 2005 This is the fourth article in our "Leftwing Monsters" series, the first of which featured Humberto Fontova's profile of Fidel Castro. "Leftwing Monsters" is a feature of www.discoverthenetworks.org where the entire series will be archived -- The Editors.In August of 1960, a year and a half after Che Guevara entered Havana ahead of his "column" of "guerrillas," Time magazine featured the revolutionary comandante on its cover and crowned him the "Brains of the Cuban Revolution." (Fidel Castro was "the heart" and Raul Castro "the fist.") "Wearing a smile of melancholy sweetness that many...

Give me one reason why "judicial extraordinaire" Harriet Miers is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. One.

It's time for politicians to protect the film industry and implement stiff anti-piracy laws. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, "pirates are costing the film industry billions of dollars each year." Thank you, J. Scott Davis

San Diego Man May Have New HIV Strain Last Updated: 02-15-05 at 9:47AM Health officials are trying to locate a San Diego man who tested positive for a new strain of HIV. The overly aggressive and drug resistant strain was first discovered in New York City. With this new strain, a person can become infected with HIV and develop Aids in a matter of months, instead of years. One local doctor says there's no need to panic. "Is this going to become a widespread epidemic…this particular strain? No, I don't think it will be," said Doctor Susan Little an associate...

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I have to say that I never in my wildest dreams would have thought-before I became a freeper-that somehow every problem someone has is somehow President Bush's fault. I wouldnt believe some of the conclusions people come to if I hadnt read them. Maybe I'll compile all the spots Ive read of someone blaming Bush for a conflict or tragedy and see what I come up with.

Accused of raping five women in the Boulder and Lakewood areas, former Aspen real-estate agent and Snowmass snowboard instructor Bradford T. Wagner was employed in the 1990s as a gay porn star in West Hollywood, Calif., the Aspen Daily News has learned. Wagner's career in gay adult films was confirmed Friday by the executive of the company that produced some of the movies in which Wagner starred. The executive spoke on the condition that his name and company not be used. In one movie that was shot in 1991, cast credits list the name of Brad Wagner, but subsequent releases...