The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police believe was a deliberate hit.

Chauncey Bailey, who had been a reporter for The Oakland Tribune before moving to the Post in June, was killed around 7:30 a.m., Oakland Police spokesman Roland Holmgren said. He said witnesses told police that a single gunman had shot Bailey and then fled.

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For one Amsterdam mayor, the Netherlands' famous tolerance has gone too far. Morrocan-born Ahmed Marcouch is taking the tough cop approach in a rough Amsterdam neighborhood, pushing his fellow immigrants to integrate. But some consider him a traitor

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CBS ignored such inconvenient facts as how a family of four with an income as high as $82,600 could get on the taxpayers' dole. Katie Couric had teased her top story: “Tonight, landmark legislation that supporters say could save millions of lives. Congress takes a step toward regulating everything about cigarettes for the first time ever.” (h/t: Newsbusters)

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A few days ago Democratic Underground posted a YouTube clip of Keith Olberman attacking Secretary of State Rice over statements she made in a Fox News interview. Olberman was galled that Dr.Rice seemed to be comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler. The fact that the Baathist party which Saddam belonged to was an Islamisized National Socialist organization formed with help from the Nazis themselves is not enough to persuade Olberman that Hitler/Hussein comparisons are valid, nor I assume are the thousands of minorities murdered by Baathists in modern re-creations of Nazi Germany’s darkest days.

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Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are "villainously and criminally obscene people."

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When asked whether his answer also applied to the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons, he said it did.

Pakistan has nuclear weapons and is politically unstable, raising concerns that the current military leadership could be replaced by religious fanatics who would be less cautious in using the weapons.

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I walked into that gun club with the worst thoughts about the place and I walked out with a completely different opinion.

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A new al Qaeda propaganda ad, headlined "Wait for the Big Surprise" and featuring a digitally altered photograph of President George Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf standing in front of a burning White House, was posted on the Internet today.

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