Did King Tut die of an accident, or was he murdered? Did he die of a simple broken leg? The latest CT scans of his mummy shows that the young king had a fracture of his upper leg probably shortly before he died. Earlier conspiracy theories   based on X ray findings of a skull [...]

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The “White Plague” of tuberculosis had always been a major killer, but became epidemic in the crowded slums of the cities of the industrial revolution. Yet “old” diseases once thought conquered by modern men are now reemerging to be a threat, and in complicated ways. For example, what does the the “white plague” have to [...]

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Today’s news brings another skirmish in the global war against displaying affection. Not to be outdone by the politically-correct Brits, this time it’s Americans who are asserting their right to be protected against unprovoked cuddles. A four year old boy in a suburb of the appropriately-named Waco, Texas, served an “in-school suspension” for “inappropriate physical [...]

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New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson has won re – election despite the bribery scandal that he is embroiled in. It seems voters in the area are not concerned enough about the situation to remove him from office. It is disappointing, but not surprising, in an area that put Mayor Ray Nagin back in office. Nagin was [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders As the late, great newspaper columnist Jimmy Cannon used to say, nobody asked me, but… THE DESIGN FOR BOSTON’S NEW INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART HIGHLIGHTS THE WEAKNESS of much of current modern architecture. There’s something very derivative and familiar about the structure. Yes, the Diller Scofidio & Renfro design for the Institute [...]

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Steven Paul Mark, the author of a great novel “Drift” agreed to do an email and telephone interview. The book review can be found here. Simon@BNN: Let me start by saying thank you for agreeing to an interview. As I understand it ‘Drift’ is your first foray into the writing business, and a very well written [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA — Russia Today TV, Moscow’s English-language satellite television channel, reported that Russian government officials are considering filing libel suits against international journalists over their reporting on the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. [

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This story piqued my interest….so I spent several hours doing statistical research on it. According to Reuters, the U.S. has the highest number of prisoners in the world due to “tough laws.” There’s a lot of truth to that, as U.S. incarceration rates have risen and fallen with the drug war and mandatory sentencing laws. [...]

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From The Gathering Storm The Dems are ready to flex their appeasement. Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is co-sponsoring the “End Racial Profiling Act”. The proposed bill is said to have been prompted by the recent removal of six Muslim imams, who are reported to have acted in a decidedly provocative manner, from a US Airways’ [...]

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I grew up in the age of increasing awareness. My parents, like most, were afraid of the rest of the world. They kept an eye on me, asked where I was going, and checked my halloween candy for razors. Still, it hadn’t yet hit a point where the rest of the world was afraid of [...]

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From the “New York Times” this lovely Sunday morning comes the article entitled “Iraqis Near Deal on Distribution of Oil Revenues.” The article is an interesting read. It inadvertently reaffirms the notion the pre-emptive conflict in Iraq was initiated by the United States government to secure access and de facto control of the nation’s resource, [...]

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In July, 1992, Itzhak Rabin was elected Prime Minister. In his election campaign he promised he would never hold negotiations with the PLO, that he would hold on to as much of post-’67 Israel as possible and that in general, he would keep to the status quo policy of fighting terror, while pursuing peace with [...]

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If you believe everything you read, and I would never recommend doing this, of course, Germany suddenly finds itself in the wonderful world of economic upswing. Signs of this Aufschwung are being reported everywhere and it appears at times that the country has been “afflicted” by a giant and completely unexpected Wohlstanswelle (wave of prosperity). [...]

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On the face of it former president Jimmy Carter would seem the ideal keynote speaker at the conference commencing today in Teheran for Holocaust deniers. Of course, the powerful and evil tentacles of the IJC — the International Jewish Conspricacy — which, as we all know, secretly controls all world events — except those of Holocaust deniers [...]

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In a few days time, the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will be sworn in as the country’s President for the third time. The scheduled date for the inauguration is December 15th. The Government has been seeking funding from Taiwan, Iran and Thailand to foot the expenses of the said occasion. The other day Jammeh left for Iran, while [...]

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This story indicates one of the major problems with public education. A teacher lost her job when kids discovered a porn flick she’d starred in, and now it looks like she could get her gig back.From the story: “School officials immediately suspended Dye, banned her from school property, and as a non-tenured teacher, told her [...]

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News Item: Xmas trees removed from Sea-Tac Just last week we noted a story about Santa being replaced by Frosty the Snowman in a school program in New York state.  Now the Christmas trees have been removed from Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport, because of a protest by a local rabbi.  The rabbi wanted an 8 foot [...]

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It was news for one day in Chicago, the biggest city in Senator Dick Durbin’s home state. Since then, no one seems to have noticed this absurd bill being pushed by Senator Dick Durbin that would give away Federal welfare money to young lawyers. Of course, Durbin isn’t calling it welfare. He is calling it [...]

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LONDON — An official British report into the 1997 car crash that killed Princess Diana will say the U.S. Secret Service was bugging her phone on the night of her death, according to the London newspaper the Observer. [ ... ] The paper said Stevens would report that the U.S. Secret Service was bugging Diana’s [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect A SCOTS travel firm set up to organise stag parties is sending health tourists to the Third World for cheap, fast surgery they cannot get in the UK. Globe Health Tours – which usually provides entertainment for stag weekends – has already sent [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Indian and international experts will review polio situation in the country and thrash out future strategies to eliminate the virus that has affected 583 children this year. India Experts Advisory Group (IEAG) on polio, in a two-day meeting here from tomorrow, will also [...]

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[To my way of thinking personal accounts of experiences in the chaotic worlds of the Middle East speak more directly to the realities there than the pronouncements of our politicians.  I also find women's accounts more humane, direct, honest.  Thus, I often pass along the reports of such as Zena from Beirut: http://beirutupdate.blogspot.com/ and Laila [...]

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  Shanta says she was beaten regularly by her employer  Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Shanta looks like any other six-year-old, except there is an open wound on her head, her hands are swollen, chapped and grey and she can barely walk.She is the youngest of the three [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer The Iraq Study Group’s 79-point plan that landed on the nation’s doorstep last week was received with mixed, but very predictable, reactions. The Left was elated and assumed that finally President Bush will have to admit his mistakes, start withdrawing troops and kow-tow to the Iranians and Syrians [...]

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How is it journalism is supposed to go: “Who, What, Where, When”? Isn’t that the purported standard for “reporting” on a story? So, should that be true, the just-the-facts-ma’am style of reporting, informing the reader so that he may decide, is obviously as rare as a white Unicorn appearing every 13th month on a blue [...]

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