Author: Jim Addison

The militants arrested in Germany in an al Qaeda terror plot were given a September 15th deadline to carry out their attack, reports Erik Kirschbaum in Germany for Reuters: …

Where politicians are implicated in scandal or corruption, an interesting phenomenon has been noticed by many observers. It the offender is a Republican, it is mentioned in the lead …

Now playing over on the Politics page, also accessible by the user-friendly tabs at the top of this page: Kos calls out Hillary and Obama on Iraq . . …

Better looking, too, but that's not the subject of this University of Vienna scientific research: Smarter than Apes? For serious scientists, Lassie and her friends were deemed little more …

While you peons are expected to bike it or car-pool, the self-indulgent elitists look down on you from their fossil-fuel-guzzling private jets, and sneer. Via Drudge: As former Vice …

Portuguese police formally declared the mother of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann a suspect in her disappearance during eleven hours of questioning last night, according to Ontario Now: The …

In the midst of the "subprime" mortgage "crisis," it pays to remember the biggest losers are the investors who put up their own money so poor people normally considered …

Assorted anarchists, leftists, and other criminals may be planning to turn Minneapolis' streets into chaos for the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the Twin Cities aren't prepared, writes Katherine …

Norman Hsu, the Democratic fundraiser who jumped $2 million bail in California, has been arrested in Colorado, report Jaxon Van Derbeken and John Coté for the San Francisco Chronicle: …

One of the all-time greatest voices is no more, reports Alessandra Rizzo for the Associated Press: Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of …