Democrats love to poke fun at the Tea Party, but they’ve actually organized “a more aggressive version” of their own in Wisconsin, writes John Fund in the Wall Street Journal . Aided by President Obama’s Organizing for America group, Democrats have gone “over the top” in their rhetoric and protests in…
Continue reading …About 300,000 women each year undergo unecessary surgical biopsies to look for breast cancer when a much easier—and safer—needle biopsy would be better, a new study suggests. Surgical biopsies are the better option in certain cases, but doctors use it way too often, reports the New York…
Continue reading …Advice for would-be iPad owners: try it before you buy it. John Swansburg didn’t, and “now I just feel annoyed, having spent $600 on a device that hasn’t done anything to improve my life,” he writes in Slate . “A salad spinner would have been a better investment, and I don’t…
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The unrest in Libya has largely been centred in the eastern city of Benghazi. Ahmed, a businessman and resident of Benghazi who declined to give his real name for his own safety, told Al Jazeera that hospitals in the city were overwhelmed with the number of dead and injured and were running out of blood.
Continue reading …The British press has been having some fun with this one: A kayaker on England’s Lake Windemere snapped a photo with his phone of what he thinks is “Bownessie,” a creature along the lines of the more famous Loch Ness monster alleged to be lurking in the 11-mile-long lake. To…
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The US is for the first time holding direct talks with senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan, reports Steve Coll in the New Yorker . He characterizes them as “exploratory” and not as formal peace negotiations, noting that supreme leader Mullar Omar is not a participant. The intent is to pave the…
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Algerian police thwarted a rally by thousands of pro-democracy supporters on Saturday, breaking up the crowd into isolated groups to keep them from marching. These are the latest images from the capital Algiers.
Continue reading …Oregon Democrat David Wu recently won a seventh term to Congress, but several former staffers think he’d be better off in a psychiatric hospital instead of on the House floor. That’s not an exaggeration, as the Oregonian explains. Staffers were so worried about his increasingly erratic behavior during the campaign—…
Continue reading …As if things weren’t bad enough for Silvio Berlusconi, now he’s got the wife of a former world leader gossiping about him: Sarah Brown, missus to former British PM Gordon Brown, has a new book out in which she recounts the randy Italian chasing around after Naomi Campbell’s phone number…
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