ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
Brian Ross, ABC News, Denver
Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
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Law May Allow Homeowner To Shoot Intruder
Fox News, Las Vegas
There’s a popular phrase that says "A man's home is his castle." One Valley lawmaker is trying to get a new law passed that goes even further to protect homes and homeowners’ rights.
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Judge orders release of Rosenberg trial evidence
Reuters, New York
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a further eight grand jury transcripts from the 1951 espionage prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a lawyer for the National Security Archives said.
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Protesters at Democratic convention fly the ‘cage’
Ariel Sabar, Christian Science Monitor, Denver
They’re outside city offices, in parks, on the capitol steps and near the US Mint. But the one place most protesters here are avoiding is the official demonstration zone, a fenced-in parking lot near the Democratic National Convention that activists here mockingly
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Alan Keyes: Voters should say 'no'
Bob Unruh, World Net Daily, Washington
Ambassador Alan Keyes, who at one point sought the Republican nomination for president, now says the leading candidates for president – Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and GOP Sen. John McCain – both represent the kind of government colonists founded the U.S. to escape.
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Best Western rebuts claims of massive data breach
Jordan Robertson, Yahoo News, San Francisco
Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it? Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western International Inc.?
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Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers over Fitna film
Dancho Danchev, Zero Day
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL — this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June — managed to successfully hack a couple
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FLORIDA ELECTRICITY COSTS SKYROCKET AS UTILITY INVESTS IN SOLAR
James M. Taylor, Environment & Climate News, Tallahassee
Florida Power & Light (FPL) customers are being hit with a 16 percent hike in electricity prices as the utility company invests more heavily in solar power. FPL's ongoing solar investment appears to violate a state law requiring utilities to provide power from the least-expensive available source.
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Alabama hits obese workers with fee/ Is it big brother or paternalistic government?
Money Central, Alabama
Alabama already charges workers who smoke -- and has seen some success in getting them to quit -- but now has turned its attention to a problem that plagues many people in the Deep South: obesity
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Moderates Reject ‘Misguided Benevolence’ for Immigrants
Gates of Vienna, Copenhagen
The group argues that a misdirected benevolence has led to a permissive situation where people of working age, regardless of ethnicity, live on benefits for extended periods of time instead of supporting themselves. This hits immigrants particularly hard, they claim.
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More blacks choosing to teach their own children
Renate C. Lee, Houston Chronicle
Once seen by many blacks as something only whites do, home schooling has steadily gained momentum in the black community in the past eight years and is expected to continue to grow, say home school experts.
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Contaminated by 'evil' of political correctness?
Midhurst and Petworth Observer
"I was saddened to read it for I never thought for a moment our district council of all local authorities would become contaminated by the repulsive evil of political correctness. If only Gilbert and Sullivan could see it, they would have a field day with it," Mr Colpoys told the Observer.
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Denied right to steal land through eminent domain, county officials try again
Indy Star, Noblesville
Hamilton County officials have decided they want a judge to reconsider his ruling in an eminent domain lawsuit that would provide additional parking in downtown Noblesville. Superior Court 1 Judge Steve Nation ruled against the county in July in its attempt to obtain land through condemnation of McMillan's Auto Care in the 500 block of Conner Street.
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Bill Protecting Researchers From Animal Rights Groups Passes Californian Senate
Short News, Sacramento
California: AB 2296, a bill which makes it illegal to publish the photographs or personal information of researchers or their families with the intent to harm or intimidate has passed the state Senate 29-0
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Animal rights activists sabotage infectious disease centre
The Local, Stockholm
A group of 50 animal rights activists forced a gate at the entrance to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control(SMI) in Stockholm on Monday morning. Institute staff were able to prevent the activists from entering the main buildings.
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You Can't Have Your Cake
Samantha Booth, Daily Record, UK
BAKING competitions are the latest innocent pleasure to fall foul of the politically correct brigade. The Scottish Women's Rural Institute have banned the consumption of cakes and scones entered in competitions, insisting that all baked goods are destroyed immediately following judging.
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Spokane woman sentenced in 2001 UW firebombing
Washington State News, Seattle
Lacey Phllabaum, 33, is one of five members of an ecoterrorism group called the Earth Liberation Front who were accused by federal prosecutors of firebombing the building. Prosecutors say the ELF cell believed a scientist at the UW was doing genetic engineering work, which they deemed dangerous
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Home-schooling parents get children back
Charlie Butts, One News Now, Germany
Some good news has surfaced for a German home-schooling family.
Home schooling is illegal in Germany. Earlier this year, police in that country stormed a family home while the parents were away and seized six children, although a three-year-old was later released. Attorney Mike Donnelly of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) gives an update on the
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Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts
Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., Cato, Washington
Will the U.S. Treasury repudiate its obligations to its creditors, be they citizens or investors around the world? Most observers would answer "no" without hesitation. But Congress, with the complicity of the White House and the Fed, has arguably embarked on a stealth repudiation.
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Georges Bank drilling weighed
Beth Daley, Boston Globe, Halifax
Canadian government officials and some fishermen are considering the once unthinkable: drilling for oil and gas on the fabled Georges Bank fishing ground their nation shares with the United States
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Lone Accountant Takes On IRS in Tax Dispute and Wins
Fox News, Washington
It took seven years, but Charles Ulrich did something many people dream about, but few succeed at: He beat the IRS in a tax dispute.
Not only that, but tax experts say potentially millions of other taxpayers could benefit from his victory.
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Despite court order, minister doesn't leave his home
Carol Gorga Williams, APP, Long Branch, NJ
When the Rev. Kevin Brown learned Aug. 15 from Superior Court Judge Lawrence M. Lawson that he must move on and that his property, owned intermittently by him and by his church, would be acquired by eminent domain, city officials agreed to give Brown some time.
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