The New York Times Co. posted a $648 million loss for the fourth quarter on Wednesday as it absorbed an $814.4 million charge to write down the value of its struggling New England properties, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

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The Israeli air force bombing early Tuesday of a N. Gaza tunnel leading into Israel near the Karni crossing was described by military experts as irrelevant in terms of the Palestinian suicide bombing that killed three Israelis in an Eilat bakery Monday, Jan 29. All the Palestinian terrorist organizations, including Fatah, have been digging dozens of tunnels for months undisturbed. It is common knowledge that they cannot be destroyed from the air, which is why Israel discontinued aerial attacks months ago, without however resorting to ground action against the diggers.

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The two black officials are charged with engaging in a "pattern of discriminatory action" over a period of several years that resulted in the denial of the rights of white citizens of Noxubee County to "participate in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice."

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Don't stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.

The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.

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"One large Islamic nation should be established in the Middle East, and where will Israel go? It should go to Canada. There is much open territory there in which a Jewish state should be established," said the Palestinian Foreign Minster Mahmoud A-Zahar in a recent interview with Canada's Globe and Mail.

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North Korea's nuclear weapons capability threatens Russian interests, Moscow's chief negotiator at international talks with Pyongyang said Wednesday, warning the country against carrying out another military test.  "Our interests are under threat," Alexander Losyukov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency, also cautioning North Korea against a repeat of last October's atomic bomb test.

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A day of reckoning is now coming on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 2001, says the Economist survey, the pay of the typical American worker has been stuck, with real wages growing less than half as fast as productivity, while a typical top U.S. manager has seen his take-home increase from 40 times the average four decades ago to 110 times today. Overall compensation deals for CEOs frequently reach a multiple of 500 times the factory floor rate. Thus, a worker earns in a year roughly what the CEO on the top floor takes home each day.

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The coming battle for the soul of the GOP

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Ok... Let's all get some popcorn... this is gonna be good...

Relations between France and the United States are back on track after years of tumult and should remain that way regardless of who wins the French presidential election this spring, Paris' envoy to Washington said yesterday.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.

Smart man, that Harper...

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These Rules of Engagement might sound fine to academics gathering at some esoteric seminar on how to avoid civilian casualties in a war zone. But they do absolutely nothing to protect our combat troops who have to respond in an instant to a life or death situation.

If our soldiers or Marines see someone about to level an AK-47 in their direction or start to are receive hostile fire from a rooftop or mosque, there is no time to go through a seven-point checklist before reacting. Indeed, the very fact that they see a weapon, or begin to receive hostile fire should be sufficient justification to respond with deadly force.

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Do you think it’s possible to get a minority scholarship if you’re a white male? You've probably heard rumors and myths about the availability of this type of financial aid and never got the straight facts.

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"We are ready, we are sustainable, we are flexible and we provide awesome combat capability," Carrier Strike Group 3 commander Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn said. "Just the fact there are going to be two carrier strike groups operating in that region could deter any state or non-state sponsored organizations from doing something we wouldn't want them to do."

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Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported.

Government officials ackowledged using tax dollars for the changes to the facilities, but maintained that moving the toilets was part of "on-going refurbishment," according to an article in The Sun.

Islamic code prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the direction of prayer when they use the bathroom. Muslim prisoners complained of having to sit sideways on toilets so as to not break code.

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Scene: My bedroom. Sunrise. A lump, also known as Stephen Sacco, is sleeping in a bed. The phone rings.

Stephen (sleepy): Hello?

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Hello…(pause) Stephen…My name is Hillary Rodham Clinton. I’m running for president and I’d like to start a conversation with America.

Me: Do you know what time it is?

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Jan. 16: Over 40 family members, supporters of former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean at El Paso Federal Courthouse.

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I pity David Bell. And, in a way, I envy him. To be so oblivious to the threat posed by organizations like al-Qaeda and the ever burgeoning list of imitators and wannabes involved in international terrorism takes a special sort of myopia, a blissful blindness that lays a blanket of serenity over those who are arrogant enough or delusional enough to indulge in such fantasies.

Bell’s column in today’s Los Angeles Times raises an interesting point: Is the threat of terrorism an existential one? But answering in the negative, Bell proves himself shortsighted, shallow, and in the end, dead wrong.

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The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found.

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When Democrats blasted Republicans last fall for taking annual congressional pay raises while blocking numerous attempts to raise the minimum wage, it was an effective campaign tactic. Democrats vowed not to accept the annual cost-of-living hike until Congress increases the minimum wage.

But Republicans angered over the political attacks are unwilling to allow Democrats to reinstate the so-called members' COLA, forcing Democratic leaders to scuttle the 1.7 percent pay hike for the entire year.

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Contemplating the current field of Republican presidential candidates, Rush Limbaugh sounded like a man with malaise. "To be honest with you, there's nobody out there that revs me up," he confessed to his audience of several million conservative sympathizers on his radio show last week, "so why should I pretend there is?"

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Niche or not, the on-air lineup will suffer when Mr. Franken leaves. He told his listeners he would depart Feb. 14 but was coy about whether he would run against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008 for the U.S. Senate seat in his home state of Minnesota.

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Two South African Muslim men whom Washington accuses of financing al Qaeda have escaped being placed on a U.N. terrorism blacklist, but their reprieve may only be temporary.

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The mother of Muhammad Faisal Saksak, the 21-year-old suicide bomber who carried out Monday's attack in Eilat, said she was aware of her son's plan to blow himself up and that she had wished him "good luck."

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Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, didn't say who might be the next justice to leave, but speculation has recently swirled around Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford appointee, who will turn 87 in April.

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A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because it is “un-Islamic”.

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Arizona State University senior Ryan Visconti was told “his kind” wasn’t welcome — that he was an abomination and an unforgiveable sinner. He pleaded to join the “church,” which was set up Jan. 10 as part of diversity training for ASU dormitory employees.

The role-play training took place Jan. 11, one week before the start of the spring semester. Assigned the identity of a gay Hispanic, Visconti’s persistence during the training got him nowhere. A woman with a Southern accent told him there was nothing he could do. She said he was going to hell, and that even Jesus said so in the Bible.

Visconti, a 22-year-old political science major from Mesa, called the role-play an “ultra-clear example” of the victim mentality and liberal bias that permeate ASU.

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Now that he'll never run for President, Kerry shows his true anti-American Socialist Utopian stripes...

Addressing a world Economic Forum meeting in Davos Switzerland on Saturday, Kerry also strongly rejected West's demanded prerequisites for the resumption of nuclear talks with Iran.

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Libby trial about lying under oath, that should have been about Karl Rove or Dick Cheney, not the actual leaker, Richard Armitage, who first outed an undercover CIA agent who wasn't undercover, because she sent her husband on a secret mission to find something he didn't find, and then wrote a newspaper column about his secret trip, Hmmmm .... something about Robert Novak that now I can't remember ... now focuses on White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who got immunity for his testimony from Patrick Fitzgerald.

Imagine if one of the leading Republican candidates for president in 2008 like John McCain or Rudy Giuliani had a civil lawsuit for campaign finance fraud pending against him. Do you think that the media would be following this action with every legal brief filed, and every breath uttered by anyone involved?

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Senator John Kerry, calling the United States a 'pariah...' Yep, thats a real patriot right there...

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Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 who won re-election as an independent last year, says he is open to supporting any party's White House nominee in 2008.

"I'm going to do what most independents and a lot of Democrats and Republicans in America do, which is to take a look at all the candidates and then in the end, regardless of party, decide who I think will be best for the future of our country," Lieberman said Sunday.

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What part of the words "several states" do House Democrats not understand? Their cynical assumption is that "the people of the several states" will not notice this dilution of their representation in the House.

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Francis Manion, senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), says that with its 5-4 opinion in Van Orden v. Perry, the high court "did away with the idea that there is something constitutionally radioactive about the Ten Commandments."

In a December 2005 ruling about a Kentucky courthouse's display of the Ten Commandments, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the phrase "separation of church and state" is an "extra-constitutional construct ... [that] has grown tiresome."

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