WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father of a Marine who died in Iraq and the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
The court ... 
Hey Monica! Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
Ex-councilwoman tries to withdraw guilty plea, then vows appeal
Detroit -- Monica Conyers, who plunged her sentencing hearing into controversy Wednesday, has slim hopes of successfully appealing her 37-month prison ... 
More than 120 fighters from the anti-government Gulbuddin faction of Hezb-i-Islami have surrendered to local authorities in Baghlan after a weekend of fighting with the Taliban that left 60 insurgents and 20 civilians dead.
"Since Sunday 120 fighters including 70 armed ... 
Alexander Graham Bell Invents The Telephone
by Marc Stockwell-Moniz Chandlers Watch.com
This week, one-hundred and thirty-four years ago in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention--the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville ... 
If there was an award for despicable legacies Joseph Stalin would rank right up there with Hitler and Mao for the men with the most blood on their hands. By conservative estimates the man who led the Soviet Union for 30 years until his death in 1953, was responsible for killing some 20 million people, most of them his own citizens.
Intense fighting between Somali government forces and Islamist insurgents on Wednesday left 23 civilians dead in Mogadishu, a medical source and witnesses said.
Six staff members, including two women, were killed and seven others sustained injuries when over a dozen armed men wearing masks attacked the office of a non-governmental organisation in Oghi on Wednesday.
The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been “singing like a male canary” since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said Wednesday.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was captured by Pakistani authorities in a raid, has become “a vital asset in gathering information on the Taliban and other extremist groups operating in the region,” an unnamed Pakistani official told The Washington Examiner.
Monica Conyers, who plunged her sentencing hearing into controversy Wednesday, has slim hopes of successfully appealing her 37-month prison term, experts say.
More than 120 fighters from the anti-government Gulbuddin faction of Hezb-i-Islami have surrendered to local authorities in Baghlan after a weekend of fighting with the Taliban that left 60 insurgents and 20 civilians dead.
Suspected Islamic militants shot dead three Thai workers and set their bodies on fire in the middle of road Thursday in Thailand’s troubled south, police said.
This week, one-hundred and thirty-four years ago in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used…
An American member of al-Qaeda was picked up in a raid in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman.
The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been “singing like a male canary” since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said Wednesday.
Nina Gershon, we (The People) need your home address so that we know where to send the bill….you know, since you know better than our elected officials how to spend our money wisely. I wonder how much ACORN greased her for this decision? She is from Chicago and was appointed by Bill Clinton, you know.
The Broken Common Bond
