This is a pic of the 9mm semi-auto Beretta pistol that the German press is referring to as an “automatic” weapon, and describing its use in the following terms: The teachers died trying to shield the children from his bullets as he kept his finger on the trigger of his automatic weapon, ...

Deseret News | Huntsman trounces Limbaugh in poll “The poll shows a majority of Americans are in line with the governor’s belief that we need solution-oriented leaders,” Huntsman spokeswoman Lisa Roskelley said, carefully avoiding any mention of Limbaugh. No, the poll shows that a ...

Another Not So Smart Power initiative humiliatingly spurned | Cold Fury Oh, but this is rich: Boy Genius makes overtures to “moderateâ€� elements of the Taliban, gets stupid ass spanked — again: Obama’s foreign policy doesn’t seem to be very effective....

Remember that 60 Minutes piece on bank failures I linked to earlier this week and how optimistic the Chairwoman of the FDIC sounded ? “We’ve been around for 75 years and nobody’s ever lost a penny of insured deposits,” FDIC head Sheila Bair told Pelley. “…which is why...

The Afghan Supreme Court upholds a criminal conviction for “blasphemy:” KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy in a case that has alarmed media and rights organizations in Afghani...

Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. I snapped this picture (as you can see from my reflection) at an undisclosed location in the greater Toronto area. This document shredder truck had the engine running. The window was rolled down. And the management panel was, as you can see, open to anyone...

Of Course, You Can’t Believe A Thing The Senate Republicans Say | QandO hey yelled, they screamed, they hopped up and down on one leg and told us how bad this 410 billion dollar spending bill was and how it was “business as usual’ (something they should certainly know about) that increased the...

Pajamas Media » The Not-So-Special Relationship: Why Obama Snubbed Gordon Brown And Brown tried, he really did. In addition to that pen holder, there was the announcement of an honorary knighthood for Teddy Kennedy (the citation reads “For services to bartending and underwater search and rescueâ€...

File this one under the title A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted: (AP) A New York man is suing a New Jersey psychic, claiming she defrauded him of nearly $250,000 he paid her to craft a golden statue that was supposed to ward off negativity. Charles Silveira, 38, of Seaford, Long Island, claims he...

Dateline Saudi Arabia: CAIRO (AP) — A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom’s ultraconservative religious police and judiciary. (…) ...