WASHINGTON, July 28 - In a break with President Bush, the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, has decided to support a bill to expand federal financing for embryonic stem cell research, a move that could push it closer to passage and force a confrontation with the White House, which is threatening to veto the measure.

The […]

WASHINGTON: The leading US council of Muslim scholars on Thursday issued a fatwa against terrorism, in the latest bid to distance the American Islamic community from extremism following the London attacks.
“All acts of terrorism targeting civilians are haram (forbidden) in Islam,” said the fatwa edict made by the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA), a […]

UK Police have asked news organisations “in the strongest possible terms” not to publish pictures obtained by ABC News of unexploded bombs discovered in a car in Luton.
The US broadcaster has shown pictures of the bombs, flatpacked like pancakes in a car believed to have been rented by the suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer.

In a note […]

Financial Times: “Yasin Hassan Omar, one of the men suspected of trying to detonate bombs on London’s transport network, was arrested on Wednesday following Britain’s biggest manhunt. The arrest of the 24-year-old Somali is potentially the most significant breakthrough in the investigation into last Thursday’s botched bomb attacks.”
LONDON, July 27 — “In a dramatic early […]

There was the question interjected on Hannity and Colmes Wednesday night.
It was an unexpected, an unanswered question from Ann Coulter.
From the FreeRepublic:
While discussing the requirements of a Supreme Court nominee, Coulter just sarcastically noted that it was ok to kill a girl at Chappaquidock. Colmes said that it was a low blow and that the […]

Stories like the one Dan Abrams relays should be heralded by the MSM. It also portrays the kind of image of our military and of the best of America that we want trumpeted throughout the world - especially among those who are against us by force or politically.
The story is about Private Stephen Tschiderer, […]

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee John Roberts likely will not face a Democratic filibuster, Senate centrists who brokered a deal to expedite judgeship candidates said Thursday. “So far, so good,” one Democrat acknowledged.
While the group of 14 Democratic and Republican senators said they were reserving official judgment until after confirmation hearings, Sen. Mike DeWine said […]

The card game Mao

“Card games belonging to the Eights group have been popular with college students for the last 25 years or more. Part of their attraction is the ease with which increasingly elaborate rules can be added; success in these games depends largely on the ability to remember the rules and act on them […]

From the Washington Times Blog:
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who is expected to play a leading role in opposing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, sounded a bit schizophrenic in his first post-nomination press conference last night.
Asked why Judge Roberts, who was approved for the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The video game industry on Wednesday changed to adults-only the rating of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,” a best-selling game in which explicit sexual content can be unlocked with an Internet download.
The decision followed intense pressure from politicians and media watch groups, and retailers reacted swiftly - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), […]

AGE-BIRTH DATE – Jan. 27, 1955, in Buffalo, N.Y.
EDUCATION – BA, Harvard University, 1976; JD, Harvard Law School, 1979.
CAREER – Nominated by President Bush on Jan. 7, 2003, to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; confirmed by Senate on May 8, 2003; principal deputy solicitor general, U.S. Justice Department, 1989-93; private […]

President Bush plans to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court this evening at 9pm EST. Many are anticipating that the choice will be Judge Edith Brown Clement of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Scotus Nomination Blog has a list of some of Clement’s opinions.
There are rumors […]

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WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has attacked violent video games as “a silent epidemic” among children, said she wants a federal investigation into one of the most popular, “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.”
Clinton, D-N.Y., is asking the Federal Trade Commission to probe how users of the game can access […]

Foxnews reports:

Rehnquist was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and “was admitted for observation and tests,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
He had been coming to the court daily until Wednesday. Court officials, questioned about his absence, revealed that he was in the hospital.
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At about 2:30 p.m., Arberg issued a […]

Organic SEO Blog has a very nice post on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). It’s concise, accurate and very informative.
Theme Master is a great tool for helping figure out how to use other words on the page, beyond your target keyphrase(s), to help the search engine understand what you are talking about. It’s just […]

Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn have written a special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda.
Much of the evidence comes from Internal Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) documents recovered in Iraq after the war–documents that have been authenticated by a U.S. intelligence community long hostile to the […]

A new Yahoo Group you should know about.

Islamic Action Group strives for Muslim unity around the whole
world.We believe “unity” means a close affinity of thoughts and actions not solidarity of some parties or individuals.
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This group shares the same ideology and world view with Hamas of Palestine,Lebanese Hizb’ullah and Jaysh Al […]

Nationwide Parental Alert

Popular PC game contains sex scenes!
A US media monitoring group has issued a “nationwide parental alert” after hidden pornographic scenes were found in the popular game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The organisation, National Institute on the Media and the Family, issued the warning after it was revealed that a software modification allows players […]

“So Who Are the Activists?” by Paul Gewirtz and Chad Golder contains a survey of decisions by Supreme Court Justices and concludes that Conservative Justices are the most activist.
Central to their argument is their key premise - their understanding of what consititutes judicial activism.

Declaring an act of Congress unconstitutional is the boldest thing a […]

A document, “Options for future UK force posture in Iraq” by British Defence Secretary John Reid, which was leaked to a newspaper says:
The United States and Britain are considering the withdrawal of more than 100,000 troops from Iraq next year as one of many options but no decision has been made.
Sources: Matt Drudge and Aljazeera.
That […]