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Chris Matthews is so far around the bend that the only explanation for his continued tenure on MSNBC is that MSNBC executives don't watch their channel, either. NewsBusters reports the latest outrage, via Blog of the Week Riehl World View: Matthews: "Look, let me ask you this. Where are you on capital punishment?" Malachy McCourt: "Capital punishment? I think that if, if I've got to find that guy in Spain who indicted Pinochet and get him for war crimes, and I get him to do the same thing for Bush. And in that case, I would be for capital punishment....

GARY — Neighborhood children could count on Jermaine Martin’s generosity when the ice cream truck rolled through Marshalltown. At 27 years old, the mentally handicapped man rarely strayed far from his front yard, but welcomed visitors of all ages. So it was easy for his killer to find Martin on Wednesday afternoon. Police arrested a 15-year-old they say shot Martin with an SKS semiautomatic rifle as the teen’s mother drove past the victim’s house, slowing down to allow her son to fire. Police said a 16-year-old boy who was in the back seat of the car also was arrested. Martin,...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers detained two terrorists and discovered bomb-making materials south of Baghdad Sunday night. Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, reported a drive-by shooting at their checkpoint at approximately 8:45 p.m.; the soldiers returned fire, causing the terrorists to flee their vehicle on foot. A quick reaction force from Company C, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, responded to the checkpoint and captured the two terrorists. In the vehicle, the Soldiers seized various bomb-making materials. -30- FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE,...

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2006 – Two Afghan civilians were killed and one was injured July 15 in a drive-by shooting in Zambar in Khowst Province. "This was a senseless attack on Afghan civilians," said Col. Thomas Collins, spokesman for Combined Forces Command Afghanistan. "For extremists to dress like women and kill innocent civilians shows the lengths the extremists will go to to threaten the safety of the Afghan people. The coalition remains committed to putting an end to such senseless violence and those who would commit these atrocities." Three people disguised as women who were wearing burkas and driving in...

A drive-by Media (sometimes referred to merely as a MSM) is an attack on a person carried out with one or more reporters, usually automatic RNCFL (ReportNowCheckFactsLater) or sub-standard reporting from a news briefing room, (or a cubicle on the 40th floor of an unnamed MSM headquarters). They often result in the falsely Reporting of innocent conservatives because the objective is to overwhelm the target by a sudden, massive amount of false reporting without attention to accuracy. The CBS - American News Anchor, ""Gunga Dan" Rather, is believed to have invented the drive-by Reporting. Drive by reportings were popular in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Local police and neighbors of two Baghdad schools where gunmen had reportedly beheaded teachers in front of their students Wednesday said the slayings never happened, despite an official statement to the contrary. Reuters and Associated Press news crews responded to a statement by the Ministry of Interior, saying that two teachers were “slaughtered” at Amna and Shaheed Hamdi primary schools in Shaab district in Baghdad.

Second Girl Shot In 9 Days In Englewood (CBS) For the second time in little more than a week, another young girl is shot to death in the same Chicago neighborhood. It's a crime that has people in the Englewood neighborhood outraged. Ten-year-old Siretha White was celebrating at her own surprise birthday party Saturday night when bullets pierced the window of a home in the South Side neighborhood killing her. Just eight days earlier and just blocks away, 14-year old Starkesia Reed was also killed by a stray bullet in her home. As CBS 2's Rafael Romo reports, the...

An ongoing sweep of the Iraqi capital has reduced car bombings but increased other kinds of attacks, a senior US military source said Friday. "Car bombs are down, roadside bombs are down and we've captured around 1,000 suspects. But we can't declare victory," the source said of Baghdad's Operation Lightning. Conversely, he said, there are more drive-by shootings. "We think that's another way, though much less effective, to keep up violence," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told a small group of journalists. The idea for Operation Lightning was put forward by the interior and defence ministries, he...

A raunchy skin flick beaming from a video screen in a vehicle caught Rialto police Sgt. Paul Wing's eye one day as he drove through the city with his children in tow. "You could clearly see inside,' he said. "My children were in the car, but luckily they didn't notice it.' Wing said he wishes the driver had more tact than to display pornography on a screen other motorists and possibly young children could see, but he wouldn't know exactly how to cite him for the moral lapse. California Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Kohler is equally perplexed about a phenomenon...

Two individuals have been charged in connection with a drive-by shooting along Interstate 80 Saturday. Driver Rudolfo De La Cruz-Villa was charged with aggravated assault and battery and passenger Luis Bravo was charged with accessory. The two were arrested for allegedly firing shots at another vehicle between Rock Springs and Green River on I-80. According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol affidavit, David Wayne Nichols and John Moneyhun called in a report of someone shooting at their vehicle Saturday evening at approximately 8 p.m. Danielle Newman, who was a passenger in the Nichols car, said a Volkswagen pulled up along side...

Security experts issued a warning this morning after detecting infections caused by Searchmeup, the first adware to use the Exploit/LoadImage vulnerability which downloads itself onto computers without the user's permission. Panda Software's PandaLabs warned that the pages from which Searchmeup are downloaded also contain a series of exploits to download other malware onto the computer, such as the Tofger.AT Trojan, which steals banking passwords, Dialer.BB and Dialer.NO, and adware called Adware/TopConvert. Searchmeup is downloaded onto the computer when the user visits maliciously coded web pages. Once installed it changes the home page to that of a search engine that displays...

The China Factor and the Overstretch of the US Hegemony 3 books that can change your mind in 2005 about the geo-politic and geo-economic dynamics going on Interviews by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of Gurusonline.tv, Jannuary 2005 Transition Report is a quarterly online journal edited by Gurusonline.tv George Zhibin Gu, the Chinese consultant based in Shenzhen and author of the forthcoming "China's Global Reach" (Haworth Press, US) Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and author of "The Sorrows of Empire" (Metropolitan Books, US) André Gunder Frank, associate of the Luxembourg Institute for Education and International Studies and...

Phishers are taking advantage of Microsoft’s new software anti-piracy initiative by launching a wave of phishing e-mails in an attempt to get credit card numbers from Microsoft customers. The rogue e-mails also allow phishers to install spyware and adware on users’ machines. Last month Microsoft said it would not allow users in some countries install software updates online unless they could prove that their Microsoft software was legitimate. Security company Websense said it has received several reports of two new versions of spoofed e-mails that are being used to install spyware/adware onto end-user's machines and steal credit card details. The...

Adware infections net the purveyors of slimeware software around $3 a year for each infected PC, according to estimates from anti-spyware firm Webroot Software. Using this figure and stats from its own malware auditing services, Webroot guesstimates the illicit advertising market underpinned by adware infection of home and business PCs could be worth up to $1.6bn a year. According to Richard Stiennon, VP of threat research at Webroot, the illicit ad market enjoys approximately the same growth rate as the legitimate market. But that's where the similarities end. "It [adware] has a similar bus model and some of the same...

Presidential candidate John Kerry will hold a rally on West Washington between Broom and Bedford streets on Thursday. It is currently scheduled for about noon, with gates opening at 10:00 a.m. WEAC will be providing bus transportation to and from the rally, with buses leaving from the Alliant Energy Center. The buses will begin shuttling members at 10:30 a.m. More information will be posted as it becomes available

NEW YORK -- Hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs is following the lead of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry by taking his get-out-the-vote campaign to the swing states. "If you are going to play the game, you need to play it all the way," Combs said in a telephone interview Saturday. "And if you talking about flexing your power, and you ain't flexing in the swing states, then you ain't flexing your power." Combs' Citizen Change initiative will launch a three-day get-out-the-vote drive starting Tuesday in Milwaukee and Detroit, followed by rallies in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Miami. Combs...

Officer Shot Outside Courthouse Dies POSTED: 3:15 PM PDT April 21, 2004UPDATED: 7:51 PM PDT April 21, 2004 LOS ANGELES -- CHP spokesman Tom Marshall said 35-year-old CHP officer died at a Pomona hospital where he was taken following a shooting outside a Pomona courthouse Wednesday afternoon.Images From Shooting Scene He suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head.The officer is identified as Thomas Steiner. He is a five-year veteran.Reports say the officer leaves a wife and a 3-year-old son.According to CHP Officer Armando Clemente, Steiner was standing in front of the courthouse when a man shot him in the...

<p>COLFAX - A Texas man accused of driving alongside another vehicle and killing the driver at random last year pleaded guilty Thursday.</p> <p>Jimmy Jack Maddox, 27, was sentenced to 52 years in state prison, Grant Parish District Attorney Jay Lemoine said.</p>

<p>Urias Smith and Edward Jones apparently weren't worried about other drivers or the 2-year-old boy in Smith's car. When the feuding men spotted each other at a busy Jackson intersection Monday afternoon, both went for their guns, police said.</p> <p>The men exchanged gunfire as they hit their accelerators and turned from Woodrow Wilson Avenue onto Bailey Avenue Extension, Jackson Police Department spokesman Robert Graham said.</p>

Drive-by claims 2 Caddo Heights residents say gang-related gunfire common Posted on October 16, 2002 By Shane Bevel Patricia Lewis moved her family nine years ago from the Allendale neighborhood to Caddo Heights, where she thought the streets would be safer and she could keep her children away from drugs. Tuesday afternoon, friends consoled Lewis as she sat teary-eyed in the yard of her Lucky Street home just hours after her 19-year-old son died from wounds suffered in a possible gang-related shooting. Jermicheal DeWayne Lewis is the second fatal victim of the drive-by shooting Monday night at Oakdale at Ledbetter...