MEXICO CITY — Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said today the government will try to persuade President Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a 700-mile wall along the southern border. (more…)

LAKELAND, Fla. — Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff’s deputy, killing the suspect, according to an autopsy released by the sheriff’s office.

And this guy was just a SUSPECT… (more…)

A scandal involving several Chicago police officers has forced the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office to start dropping more than 100 criminal cases. (more…)

President now has legal authority even courts can’t challenge

Washington — With the final passage through Congress of the detainee treatment bill, President Bush achieved a signal victory Friday, shoring up with legislation his determined campaign against terrorism in the face of challenges from critics and the courts. (more…)

A map prepared by a retired U.S. military officer that sketches Turkey as a partitioned country was presented at the NATO’s Defense College in Rome, where Turkish officers attend.

The use of the map at a conference meeting by a colonel from the U.S. National War Academy angered Turkish military officers. (more…)

Computers now doing most of the weeding out

“I analyze the target announcement and look for the top five to seven skills: adviser, briefing manager, project manager, PowerPoint developer and so forth.

“Then I look at the resume. I make a game out of it, actually. If the resume doesn’t hit the top skills, the applicant basically missed the point because they didn’t read the announcement close enough. I teach people how to integrate the skills into their resume so it will come up in the system.” (more…)

WASHINGTON - Leaving behind a pile of unfinished work, members of the scandal-rocked U.S. Congress adjourned and went home on Saturday to ask voters to re-elect them in five weeks.

Unfinished? Considering they just put the Constitution and Bill of Rights through the shredder, I’d say America, as we know it, is finished. (more…)

Clearly someone feels threatened by Aaron Russo’s documentary, America: Freedom to Fascism. Two hit pieces of surfaced, one from the Portland Mercury and the other from the Kansas City Star. After reading this slosh, it’s almost like these hacks are writing from a script, clearly they’ve been given talking points.

• More info: America: From Freedom to Fascism (more…)

US President George W. Bush called for fighting America’s enemies “across the world” as he stepped up his counteroffensive following charges that his policies were breeding a new generation of Islamic terrorists.

How about you finish the first two wars you’ve botched, ADD boy? (more…)

How can one explain that a senior Republican Congressman is only now forced to resign over a major scandal involving apparent sexual overtures to pages that were reported to Republican Congressional Leaders almost a year ago? (more…)

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court decisions that are “so clearly at variance with the national will” should be overridden by the other branches of government, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says.

Is Gingrich advocating mod rule or dictatorship? (under the guise of “activist judges” of course, which just translates to “judges who don’t agree with us”) (more…)

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BAGHDAD - A blanket 36-hour curfew imposed on the Iraqi capital Baghdad from Friday evening was in response to an information leak concerning a possible coup attempt, according to an Iraqi Shiite MP. (more…)

Global warming is a myth created by media hysteria, says Senator James Inhofe (R-OK). Inhofe, who is Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, went on Fox News to counter the “lies” told by most of the media.

Inhofe said that Fox News “is the exception” to the media, which is spreading the myth of global warming. (more…)

Israel’s army left all of south Lebanon except for one small border village on Sunday, as part of a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under the truce that ended a war with Hizbollah fighters.

Better late than never… (more…)