By Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosen­berg (WSJ) KABUL—The top U.S. com­man­der in Afghanistan said the planned burn­ing of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of Amer­i­can troops in dan­ger and dam­age the war effort. Gen. David Petraeus said the Tal­iban would exploit the demon­stra­tion for pro­pa­ganda pur­poses,...
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By Andrea Christina Nill (LAPro­gres­sive) Tues­day, the Fed­eral Reserve Bank of San Fran­cisco released a report essen­tially debunk­ing the right wing myth that immi­grants steal jobs from U.S. cit­i­zen work­ers. In fact, the study con­cluded, “immi­grants expand the U.S. economy’s pro­duc­tive capac­ity, stim­u­late invest­ment, and pro­mote spe­cial­iza­tion that in the long run boosts pro­duc­tiv­ity.”...
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By Rick Hamp­son (USA Today) After that cruel day nine Sep­tem­bers ago, Talat Ham­dani felt twice vic­tim­ized: first by fel­low Mus­lims who killed her son, then by fel­low Amer­i­cans who doubted that a Mus­lim like her Salman died a hero at the World Trade Center. “It’s worse now than it was then,” says Ham­dani,...
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Bruce Lisker, who was accused of killing his mother in 1985, should be sent back to prison because the U.S. 9th Cir­cuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in another case that inmates should not be allowed to file late peti­tions for release even if they can prove they are inno­cent, accord­ing to the attor­ney...
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By Peter Hecht (Sacra­mento Bee) Ran­cho Cor­dova is ask­ing vot­ers to make the city the first in Cal­i­for­nia to approve a tax on home-​​grown pot for per­sonal use. Advo­cates for med­ical mar­i­juana and a state ini­tia­tive to legal­ize pot for recre­ational use say the pro­posed tax is so pro­hib­i­tive that vir­tu­ally no one could...
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By Dex­ter Filkins and Alissa J. Rubin (New York Times) One of the country’s most senior pros­e­cu­tors said Sat­ur­day that Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai fired him last week after he repeat­edly refused to block cor­rup­tion inves­ti­ga­tions at the high­est lev­els of Mr. Karzai’s government. West­ern offi­cials con­firm reports that Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and...
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By John Lauinger, Jonathan Lemire, Melissa Grace and Bill Hutchin­son (NY Daily News) Michael Enright, 21, of upstate Brew­ster, was charged with felony attempted mur­der as a hate crime — among other crimes — after the sick attack on Ahmed Sharif, 43, Tues­day night. Enright slashed Sharif across the face, arm and hand after ask­ing...
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By Ryan Abbott UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (CN) — A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misiden­ti­fied as a can­cer patient claims secu­rity guards at Prince George’s Hos­pi­tal beat him up when he tried to leave the hos­pi­tal to avoid chest surgery he didn’t need “to have a poten­tially can­cer­ous mass...
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First of all, does anyone know why the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform even held a hearing about steroid usage among baseball players? Was there a dry spell and the Committee couldn't find anything in the government that needed to be reformed? This is the Congress that in 1994 didn't ask for...
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By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty sol­diers, sta­tioned at Fort Eustis while attend­ing a train­ing course, were pun­ished for opt­ing out of attend­ing one of these Chris­t­ian con­certs. The head­liner at this con­cert was a Chris­t­ian rock band called Bar­low­Girl, a band that describes itself as tak­ing “an...
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