Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer  —  Legal Battles, Technical Difficulties Delay Required Transfer to Archives  —  The required transfer in four weeks of all of the Bush White House's electronic mail messages and documents to the National Archives has been imperiled by a combination …

Bush attacker ‘incensed by bullet-riddled Koran’  —  THE young Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W Bush had been incensed by a story he covered about an American soldier who used a copy of the Koran for target practice, according to his family.

Obama Expands Stimulus Goals  —  As Economic Outlook Grows More Dire, Early Target for Job Growth Is Bolstered  —  President-elect Barack Obama has expanded his goals for a massive federal stimulus package to keep pace with the increasingly grim economic outlook, aiming to create or preserve …

Making Congress Moot  —  A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters.  The center is supposed to enhance the experience of visitors to Congress, although why there are visitors is a mystery.

Biden to oversee efforts aimed at middle class  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President-elect Joe Biden will oversee a task force that will make recommendations on how to build the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment …

Latin America: Summits and Crisis  —  Leaders of Latin American countries met last Tuesday and Wednesday for the first Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development.  Like political junkets everywhere, the leaders congregated at a resort area, this time at Costa do Sauípe in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

One of my sources died in a plane crash last night...  UPDATED BELOW (1, 2, and 3)  —  I don't usually reveal sources, but I think this is incredibly important.  Michael Connell died in a plane crash last night.  He was a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case that I have been reporting on.

China to the Rescue?  Not!  —  I had no idea that many of those oil paintings that hang in hotel rooms and starter homes across America are actually produced by just one Chinese village, Dafen, north of Hong Kong.  And I had no idea that Dafen's artist colony — the world's leading center …

Opponents file suit to annul gay marriages in California  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Opponents of same-sex marriage in the US state of California, who won a referendum blocking the unions last month, filed suit to annul thousands of gay marriages conducted in the state this year.

Cyber Jihad of Frustrated Losers Issue Fatwas Against Facebook  —  Well, ya know Facebook started a little counter offensive since al-Qaeda supporting terrorist sympathizers vowed to use Facebook to spread Jihadi propaganda.  —  What was the reaction?  They are getting Fatwas!