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BAGHDAD, April 30, 2008 – Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers are helping Iraqi civilians in the northeastern part of the Iraqi capital who have lost family members or suffered injuries or property losses in clashes between coalition forces and enemy fighters. Army Spc. Suk Lee, a Queens, N.Y., native, speaks to an Iraqi man about a claim he would like to file with coalition forces for damage to his property during clashes in recent weeks in the southern portion of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, April 26, 2008. Lee serves as a claims processor with 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion,...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton proved Tuesday that more than one Clinton can be "the Comeback Kid." Clinton, whose husband used a second-place finish in New Hampshire in 1992 to propel himself to the White House, had trailed Obama in recent polling. In the last days, though, she overhauled her campaign operation here and took a new tone to the trail. Aides, meanwhile, executed the long-laid ground game that even rivals acknowledged was masterful. Her campaign had braced for a New Hampshire loss but instead celebrated a win in a state where her campaign worked aggressively to derail Obama's...

NOTTINGHAM, Md. - Elwood "Bunky" Bartlett says a New Age book store made it possible for him to become an overnight multimillionaire. He and his wife, Denise, were on their way to the shop where he occasionally teaches Wicca and Reiki (RAY'kee) healing when they stopped at a liquor store and bought two $5 Mega Millions tickets for Friday night's estimated $330 million jackpot. On Sunday, he said one ticket was a winner. "If it wasn't for this place I wouldn't have won the lottery," Bartlett said Sunday at Mystickal Voyage, the New Age shop. Four winning tickets to the...

NEW YORK - The backlash has built up even before the official release of former CIA Director George Tenet's memoir, with criticism about his version of the run-up to the Iraq war, interrogation techniques and other events. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday disputed Tenet's claim that the Bush administration, before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, never had a serious debate about whether Iraq posed an imminent threat or whether to tighten existing sanctions. "The president started a discussion practically on the day that he took power about how to enhance sanctions against Iraq," she said. "You may...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2007 – For 23-year-old Joe Finn, it wasn’t enough that his parents’ Richmond, Va., Liberty Tax franchise was serving as a drop-off point for used cell phones to be recycled for cash to purchase prepaid calling cards for deployed servicemembers. Finn spent three weeks organizing a fundraiser for Cell Phones for Soldiers, part of the Defense Department’s “America Supports You” program, which spotlights and facilitates troop-support efforts around the country. But on his way to the March 25 event, the Colonial Heights resident was killed when his truck flipped over on Interstate 95 in Virginia’s Chesterfield County. Even...

Iran claims to have confessions from marines By Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:34am GMT 25/03/2007 The Iranian military last night claimed its interrogators had extracted confessions from 15 British naval personnel, who had admitted straying illegally into Iranian territorial waters. The 14 men and one woman were reported to have been transferred to Teheran to be grilled over what they were doing when they were picked up near the entrance to the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of the Iraqi city of Basra. Iran called the action "blatant aggression". Britain insists its forces were on the Iraqi side of...

Angry Charles attacks Channel 4 claims that he is unfit to be King By Caroline Davies Last Updated: 2:19am GMT 12/03/2007 The Prince of Wales yesterday launched an unprecedented and pre-emptive assault on claims in a TV documentary suggesting he is "unfit to rule" as his aides stressed he would carry out his role as King in a completely different way to his role as heir-in-waiting. In a detailed dossier his most senior official set about systematically demolishing controversial claims in a Channel 4 programme to be aired tonight that Prince Charles's political "meddling" and "abuse" of power threatened the...

PARIS - Iran has thousands of paid operatives working in neighboring Iraq, an Iranian opposition group based in France claimed Friday. The National Council of Resistance's allegations could not be independently verified. A press officer at the Iranian Embassy in Paris, speaking on condition of anonymity because of embassy policy, called the claims "completely false" and said Tehran supports stability in the region. The council is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, deemed a terrorist organization by the United States. Mohammad Mohaddessin, who heads the foreign affairs committee, alleged that thousands of Iraqis are working on Iran's...

Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent (Filed: 05/10/2006) Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy was warned of an 'intifada' As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin. It said...

Musharraf nuclear claims attacked By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News Dr Khan's confessions sparked worldwide concern The daughter of disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography. In her first statement since her father's arrest in 2004, Dina Khan said she wanted to set the record straight. She said suggestions that her father asked her to go public on Pakistan's nuclear secrets were "ludicrous". Dr Khan was put under house arrest after admitting passing nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Pakistan's cloistered scientist In his book, President Musharraf...

LOS ANGELES U.S. Rep. Gary Miller has avoided paying millions of dollars in taxes on real estate deals under a tax break that protects people forced to sell their property, but officials dispute they ever made him sell his land, a newspaper reported Sunday. Miller, R-Diamond Bar, sold 165 acres to Monrovia, a suburb about 10 miles east of Los Angeles, in 2002 for a profit of more than $10 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. Following the sale, he told the Internal Revenue Service and the state he was forced to sell under threat by the city of...

Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark' Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 16, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com After centuries of scouring the Earth for Noah's Ark, claims are now flooding in that the legendary vessel of the Bible has been found. Last month, headlines screamed that a Texas team of archaelogists believed they had possibly located the biblical boat in Iran. But hang on to the "Hallelujah!" chorus a little longer. There are numerous claims about the final resting place, from Ararat to Armenia. With modern...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked group claims it killed three U.S. soldiers last month and mutilated two of their bodies to avenge the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by troops of the same unit, an institute which monitors extremists Web sites said Tuesday. The Mujahedeen Shura Council made the claim in a 4:39 minute video posted on the Internet which included the mutilated bodies of two of the soldiers attacked June 19 near Youssifiyah southwest of Baghdad, according to a statement by the SITE Institute. The institute released still pictures from the video showing two of the American dead,...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon is becoming a shelter for al-Qaida-linked militants fleeing across the Syrian border after a crackdown by authorities there, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday. His comments were certain to stoke tensions between the two neighbors. Lebanese opponents of Syria, who dominate the government and parliament in Beirut, have ridiculed such Syrian claims and accuse Damascus of sending militants across the border to destabilize Lebanon. "This has become a reality," Assad said of al-Qaida's presence in Lebanon. In a wide-ranging interview with the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Assad said al-Qaida's presence has grown in...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants attacked an Israeli military post near the border with the Gaza Strip early Sunday, the army said, days after warning of an imminent attack in the area. The army said there was an exchange of fire near the Kerem Shalom crossing, which is used to bring cargo from Egypt into Gaza. The army said there were four casualties, but gave no further details. Officials from the Popular Resistance Committees, a small Palestinian militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said members of Hamas' military wing also participated. "Our fighters infiltrated the Israeli...

US claims al-Qa'eda planned to crash planes in UK (Filed: 22/06/2006) The US administration has claimed al-Qa'eda planned to hijack aircraft and crash planes into Heathrow airport and London's Canary Wharf. One Canada Square in Canary Wharf The British landmarks were among a number of targets around the world being considered by terrorist operatives, a report from the UK Department of Homeland Security suggests. In one plot, the terrorists planned to use cameras to conceal bombs and stun guns as part of an "ingenious" plot. Using the converted weapons, it is thought it would have been possible to access the...

Elm Mott- Enemies of the Trans Texas Corridor in Central Texas are combing their forces. About a hundred of them met together in Elm Mott on Thursday night. Residents inside the 10 mile-wide study area are being encouraged to file claims against the T.T.C.'s environmental study. Any archaeological sites or endangered species on their land may keep it from being used. Mike Glockzin, the mayor of Hallsburg is considering the idea closely. His city falls inside the study area. He wants his residents to take that kind of action, to prevent any damage to their town. "We feel like you...

Chirac denies claims of £30m paid into secret Japanese bank account By Colin Randall in Paris (Filed: 10/05/2006) President Jacques Chirac took the exceptional step last night of denying allegations that he had a secret Japanese bank account into which £30 million had been paid over a number of years. Mr Chirac, who rarely responds to allegations questioning his financial propriety, "categorically" rejected the suggestion in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé that he had ever possessed such an account. A French intelligence chief, Gen Philippe Rondot, was alleged to have told investigating judges that the large amounts were paid...

HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University historian discovered a 1918 letter that raises anew questions about a secretive Yale student society and the remains of the American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by a member of Skull and Bones to another member of the society, purports that some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. A portion of the letter and an accompanying story were posted Monday on the Yale Alumni Magazine's Web site. At one of the...

State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi accused a group of insurance companies Monday of trying to blackmail him by threatening to run a $2 million ad campaign against his pending auto insurance regulations in the midst of his campaign for lieutenant governor. Garamendi said a woman who represented either the insurance industry or an insurance company contacted him through an intermediary and offered to drop the ads if Garamendi abandoned the regulations, which would limit use of ZIP codes in setting auto insurance pricing. "There was a threat made to me to back off or else," he said in an interview....

Iran claims nuclear project breakthrough By Philip Sherwell in New York (Filed: 30/04/2006) Iran is developing an advanced centrifuge that would allow it to accelerate its controversial uranium enrichment programme, a senior official told state television yesterday. Mohammad Saidi, the vice-president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, made the claim a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran had ignored a United Nations ultimatum to end enrichment work. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran will never renounce its nuclear programme A more sophisticated breed of centrifuge would allow scientists to speed up purification of uranium towards the 90 per...

PHOENIX - Siding with public sentiment over prosecutors, Gov. Janet Napolitano signed legislation Monday to make it easier for those who kill others to claim self-defense. The action on SB 1145 came despite a plea from the association that represents prosecutors from around the state who urged her to reject the measure because of provisions that would put new requirements on them to convict those who say they had no choice but to shoot another person. But gubernatorial press aide Jeanine L'Ecuyer said Napolitano received more than 1,200 e-mail messages in the last 24 hours urging her to sign the...

ONTARIO - A boy who committed suicide over what relatives alleged were threats of jail made by a school official for protesting an immigration bill never participated in any protests, the superintendent said Thursday. Anthony Soltero, 14, of Ontario told his mother the day he shot himself March 30 that he was pulled into the De Anza Middle School vice principal's office and was threatened with harsh discipline for protesting off campus during school. But Ontario-Montclair School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee said the investigation into the incident so far has not turned up any evidence that Soltero was threatened the...

Dorset claims world's hottest chilli By Richard Savill (Filed: 01/04/2006) A chilli pepper grown in a polytunnel in Dorset has been claimed as the world's hottest. The Dorset Naga is so fiery that when the owners break the skin to remove the seeds to sow for the following year's crop they have to wear gloves and be outside in a strong wind so their eyes don't sting. The strength of chilli peppers is measured in Scoville heat units "It is something I wouldn't eat but some people must like them," said Joy Michaud, who developed the chilli at the Peppers...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a potential blow to their terrorism case against a father and son, federal prosecutors on Thursday said there is no evidence to support statements by their key witness that a top aide to Osama bin Laden attended a northern California mosque in the late 1990s. The surprise move was designed to dissuade the defense from calling witnesses who would challenge the story's credibility. The witness, an FBI informant, told agents when they recruited him in 2001 that he had seen a high-ranking al-Qaida official and two other international terrorists when he lived in Lodi during the...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2006 – A Multinational Division Baghdad soldier was killed yesterday in a mortar attack southwest of Baghdad, military officials reported. The soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. In other news from Iraq, members of Iraq's 3rd Public Order Brigade found a roadside bomb in front of a trade school southeast of Baghdad on March 14, military officials reported today. The bomb consisted of a 155 mm artillery round, two batteries and a block of explosives, officials said. (Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)

(CNN) -- In what may be a sign that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror group is expanding its operations, Al Qaeda in Iraq has posted a statement claiming responsibility for firing missiles from Lebanon into northern Israel earlier this week. The statement, posted Thursday on Web sites used previously by al Qaeda in Iraq, cannot be independently verified by CNN.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2005 – A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed Dec. 22 by roadside bomb while on patrol in Baghdad, and 10 Iraqis, including a policeman, were killed and four others were wounded in a suicide bombing today in Balad Ruz, military officials announced. The name of the soldier killed in the roadside bomb attack is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The suicide bomb victims were at a Shiia mosque when the bomber rode his bicycle into the mosque's courtyard. Unable to get into the building, he detonated the bomb in the courtyard. The blast...

Japan claims China poses 'considerable' military threat (Filed: 23/12/2005) Japan's new foreign minister has awakened an old feud with China by attacking its lack of transparency and describing its increased military spending as a "threat". Taro Aso said: "It's a neighbouring country with nuclear bombs, and its military expenditure has been on the rise for 12 years. It's beginning to pose a considerable threat." Mr Aso's words drew an angry response from China, which has itself attacked Japan for its "militarism". A spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry said: "As a foreign minister, to so irresponsibly incite such groundless rhetoric...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2005 – A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device today while on patrol in Baghdad, military officials reported. The soldier's name is being withheld pending notofication of next of kin. Officials provided no further details about the incident. Officials also reported today that multiple weapons caches have been discovered throughout Iraq recently. Iraqi troops from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, discovered a cache near a vehicle control point they were manning north of Karabilah on Dec. 21. It consisted of two 122 mm artillery rounds, a 100 mm...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2005 – A U.S. Marine was killed by small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq, Dec. 18, military officials announced today. The name of the deceased, assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. In other news, soldiers from three Iraqi battalions kicked off a cordon-and-knock operation, called Operation Moonlight, east of Ubaydi today. The operation is aimed at disrupting insurgent activities along the Euphrates River, officials said. Operation Moonlight participants include soldiers from 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, backed up by U.S. troops from 3rd...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2005 – Two Task Force Freedom soldiers were killed Nov. 19 by small-arms fire while on patrol in Mosul, Iraq, officials said today. The soldiers' names are being withheld pending next of kin notification. In other news from Iraq, after witnessing insurgents firing from their car into another car on Nov. 21, killing a civilian driver, Iraqi troops chased the insurgents but lost sight of them. Later, they received a tip about where the insurgents lived, entered the home, positively identified the shooter and arrested him and four others. The soldiers are members of the 3rd Battalion,...

Media has anti-Muslim bias, claims report Monday November 14, 2005 The portrayal of Arab and Muslim people in the western media is "typically stereotypical and negative", according to a new study of perceptions of Islam. The report, commissioned by the Kuwaiti government and based on a surveys and interviews with media experts, claims that terrorism, anti-Americanism and the Iraq occupation dominate TV news coverage of the Middle East. "In the past 30 years of thousands of TV show series, there have been less than 10 characters who have been Arab-Americans," the report claims. "In print stereotypes are not so obvious,...

Note: This article may seem pedantic, but it is aimed at those who are not “insiders” on the history of the Middle East.I keep hearing the phrase, “It’s their land,” regarding Palestinian claims to Israel. Terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad publicly assert that their aims are to reclaim every inch of Israel as part of a proposed Palestinian homeland. Unfortunately, these ownership claims are echoed by “activist” groups like the International Solidarity Movement and the Palestine Solidarity Movement, both with throngs of naïve followers on U.S. and European college campuses. The followers are too eager to take these...

Beatty claims credit for poll pounding of 'the Governator' By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles (Filed: 13/11/2005) Warren Beatty, the veteran Hollywood actor who helped to deliver the first big blow to Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career, said last night that the Terminator star had got his come-uppance for fooling voters. Four days after California voters rejected a series of reforms put forward by the Republican governor, Beatty boasted that his own high-profile eve-of-poll campaigning had helped to save America from the ripple effect of Mr Schwarzenegger's "reactionary measures". Warren Beatty: 'Actors do not necessarily make good politicians' The 68-year-old, a...

Oregon Foursome Claims $340M in Lottery Wednesday November 9, 2005 2:46 AM By BRAD CAIN Associated Press Writer SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A family that parlayed $40 worth of tickets into the second-biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history came forward Tuesday to claim their $340 million prize. ``I'm still in disbelief that we won the big one,'' said Frances Chaney, 68, who went in on the Powerball ticket with her 72-year-old husband Bob, their daughter and daughter's husband. The Powerball numbers were drawn on Oct. 19, but the four waited to claim their winnings at Oregon Lottery headquarters until they...

UN Administartion on kosovo ordered to the international courts on Kosovo to indefinetly stop processing non-Albanian claims about stolen or unrightfully possessed property. Thousands of appartments, housess, and acres of the land were simply possessed by invading Albanians from Albania and Kosovo when Cgristians and non-Albanians were runing from KLA, Al-Khaida supported and trained terrorists in 1999 when Serbian Law and Security forces were ordered to retreat from Kosovo after Klinton administration and its than-allies France, germany and others attacked Serbia. In this order, Kosovo is ofitialy first teritory in the world where goverment ordered that illegal emigrants from other...

UN ignored corruption findings, claims Bolton By Philip Sherwell in New York (Filed: 06/11/2005) Senior United Nations officials are ignoring the scathing reports into their handling of the corruption-ridden Iraqi oil-for-food programme, according to John Bolton, the outspoken American ambassador to the UN. John Bolton: ‘Corruption didn't arise out of thin air’ He accused them of living in a "bubble" as they disregard the damning findings of the Volcker commission established by Kofi Annan, the secretary general. The inquiry criticised the UN and Mr Annan for their failings in running a scheme from which Saddam Hussein skimmed off an estimated...

A Riverside man has been incurring the ire of businesses he has named on a Web site that purports to out alleged employers of undocumented workers. Jason Mrochek, a 30-year-old software developer, said he hasn't been sued over his Web site, www.WeHireAliens.com The site lists 200-plus companies, some of which are in San Diego County. On the site, he invites people from around the country to post complaints about specific companies, from large corporations to mom-and-pop businesses. Also posted are addresses, phone numbers, corporate logos and even photographs in some cases. "We have been dealing with people calling up and...

UN warning as Beijing claims bird flu is 'under control' By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 28/10/2005) The Chinese government yesterday insisted it had bird flu under control, amid fears that it could prove to be the source of a global epidemic. The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) also gave a warning of the potential scale of the problem in China, which has reported three outbreaks in different parts of the country in the past week. Chinese health inspectors disinfect a motorcycle ''The frequency of the outbreaks here increases the risk of human infection. Nobody can rule it...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led former refugee chief Ruud Lubbers to resign now alleges that she was the target of retaliation, and plans to sue him and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, she said Wednesday. Cynthia Brzak, 52, said she hopes her case against Annan and Lubbers, the former prime minister of the Netherlands, will set a precedent example for whistleblowers in the U.N. who believe its internal justice system doesn't protect them against punishment. "My goal is that I don't think anyone in the world is above the law," Brzak said in an...

WASHINGTON -- The legalities of disaster recovery can seem murkier than floodwater, but for some Air Force families, making claims for belongings destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will be easier, thanks to Air Force paralegals. Two teams of Airmen from various Air Education and Training Command bases arrived at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., recently to help survivors navigate the legal claims system to recover or get reimbursement for their personal property on base. "The purpose of the teams is to go into the affected areas, evaluate the extent of the damages, document that information and assist the military member filing...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian diplomats told members of a commission investigating alleged abuses of the U.N. oil-for-food program Thursday that Russian companies did not violate sanctions against Iraq while participating in the program, the Foreign Ministry said. The commission members, led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, met with Foreign Ministry officials during their third visit to Russia while investigating the scandal-tainted humanitarian program. The Russians told the commission that "our companies, as they have officially informed the Foreign Ministry, acted in strict accordance with (U.N. sanctions against Iraq) and with Russian law," the ministry said in a...

SANDPOINT, Idaho -- Defendants in several misdemeanor drug cases that were thrown out of court for improper police procedure are now asking Bonner County to pay them damages totaling $130,000. Officials have not yet responded to four tort claims filed recently against the county, naming Sheriff Elaine Savage, Deputy Matt Hathaway and the members of the County Commission. Each of the four claims asks $25,000 in punitive damages and $7,500 in compensation for civil rights violations. The claims allege that poorly trained officers in the county routinely trample civil liberties. "A pattern of similar incidents in Bonner County patrolmen exhibiting...

JERUSALEM – Reports that he received prior warning about yesterday's deadly London terror attacks "have no basis in reality," former Prime Minister Benjamin Netantyahu told WorldNetDaily this morning. "Absolutely not. The reports are entirely false," said Netanyahu, still in London on a trip to address a corporate investment conference yesterday at the Great Eastern hotel near the site of one of the blasts. Immediately following the attacks, media reports quoted an Associated Press story claiming British intelligence told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before yesterday's explosions it had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city. The AP...

CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site posted a statement purporting to be from an al-Qaida-linked group Saturday in which it claimed responsibility for the bombings that killed at least 49 people in London and promised more attacks in the city it described as the "capital of the infidels." The claim purportedly from the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade was logged on an Islamic Web site where similar claims for responsibility have appeared in the past. The statement's authenticity could not be verified. Experts say the group has no proven history of attacks and said it had claimed responsibility for...

Patriotism: pa-tri-ot-ism; noun: love for or devotion to ones country Liberals don’t love America. They put up with it. Canada, France, Belgium. Now those are the countries liberals love. Whenever liberals’ patriotism is called into question they shout out absurd statements such as: “patriotism is a noble act involving dissent and struggle for what one believes is right... protesting the war is a patriotic act.” Or “patriotism is burning the flag.” And, my favorite yet, “Patriotism sometimes requires you to not be patriotic.” If liberals loved America as much as they say, one would think they would come down on...

A white social worker says he was banned from a recent professional conference because of his skin color. Brian Parnell, 44, of Bakersfield, Calif., filed a federal civil rights complaint against the National Association of Black Social Workers, which held its annual conference in early April in New Orleans. Parnell said he went to the conference with five colleagues, but, as the only white in the group, was barred from attending. "I was deeply hurt," Parnell said. "Social work is the profession that is all about making sure social justice takes place everywhere you go. There is a code of...

There is no doubt that the Internet has opened up a whole new way of communication for everyone who can access it. Email, websites, digital downloads; what used to take days if not weeks to communicate through letters and photographs can now be done in less that thirty seconds. So, it is curious how anyone can still be “played” by the disingenuous when it comes to ideological propaganda. Last week, Amnesty International went to great pains to orchestrate a few well-attended press conferences. At each of these media events they repeated the same baseless allegation: The United States of America...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Seizing on a proposal by Democratic legislators to raise income taxes on the wealthy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a new television ad Thursday claiming lawmakers intend to hike other taxes and might even tinker with the state's famed property tax-slashing measure, Proposition 13. The new ad came just two days after Assembly Democrats proposed adding $3.1 billion to fund education by hiking income taxes on the state's top earners. But the ad suggests Democrats also want to boost several other taxes, including the sales tax and the vehicle license fee - claims Democrats called misleading and...