Debbie Riddle A Texas lawmaker says she plans to push for a law similar to Arizona’s get-tough immigration measure. San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle report Wednesday that Republican Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball says she will introduce the measure in the January legislative session. The new Arizona law would require local and state law enforcement to question people about their... 

Nazi black man robber A black man wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Adolf Hitler on the shirt is sought by Oklahoma City police in connection with the robbery of a convenience store. Surveillance video of the man taken just before the April 20 robbery at Prime Foods Store, 3914 N Pennsylvania Ave. was released by police. The robber wore khaki shorts and stood in line with a bottle of Gatorade. The... 

Lloyd Blankfein As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were “like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor.” “I’m trading a product which a month ago was worth $100 and today is only worth $93,” wrote Fabrice Tourre, who was charged along with the... 

Stacy Jurich (top left) and Natasha McShane were attacked near this viaduct on Damen early Friday morning. Both were beaten unconscious and were in intensive care later Friday. They were two young women out on the town and celebrating success. One was 24-year-old Stacy Jurich, a recent college grad who earned a glowing work review. The other was Natasha McShane, 23, an exchange student from Ireland... 

Criminals There was so much blood on scene it was originally thought Carlos Castillo had been shot. But authorities said tonight that the Miami-Dade Police detective was struck in the head with a cinder block, beaten, and then run over with his own car after a routine traffic stop Friday in Liberty City. Castillo was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center, where the 37-year-old married father of two remains... 

Arizona finally fighting aginst Illegal Immigration The Arizona legislature has now passed the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country, authorizing local police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 70% of likely voters in Arizona approve of the legislation, while just... 

Israeli message: let Gaza starve to death or get shot Israeli troops shot and wounded three Palestinians and a Maltese woman in the Gaza Strip on Saturday during a protest near the border with Israel, witnesses and medical sources said. The four were shot after they entered a 300-metre- (-yard) deep no-go zone previously declared by Israel on the Gaza side of the frontier. The incident occurred when... 

Ring ‘exploited desperate condition of sick people’, say Israel police. Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering. The indictment says that the ring exploited the desperate... 

A Florida businessman with a penchant for luxury cars, philanthropy and socializing with professional basketball players was charged in federal court today with orchestrating an $880 million Ponzi scheme authorities say bilked at least $80 million from investors in New Jersey and elsewhere. Nevin K. Shapiro which is Jewish of Ashkenazic origin, 41, surrendered to agents from the FBI and the Internal... 

You've got killed? It was all your fault! Why did you exist in the first place? Didn't you know white people don't have the right to exist? It’s farmers’ fault that many farms are unsafe, ANC MPs said on Tuesday. André Botha, chair of Agri SA’s policy committee on rural safety, said during a presentation to the portfolio committee on police that the derogatory statements... 

Goldman Sachs Group was charged with fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product, igniting a battle between Wall Street’s most powerful bank and the nation’s top securities regulator. The civil lawsuit is the biggest crisis in years for a company that faced criticism over its pay and business practices after emerging from the global... 

This aired on South African TV last night. It is deeply touching and moving. I don’t know how this could not move anyone with common sense.  Read More »

Interpol is looking for Israelis International laws are making it increasingly difficult for Israeli diplomats, intelligence officers, generals and even former top military officers to travel the globe without being arrested on international warrants. Judging by the sheer number of outstanding warrants, any Israelis deemed to have committed crimes against Palestinian civilians are now at a higher... 

Four civilians were killed when US soldiers fired on a bus in Afghanistan on Monday, sparking furious protests and an expression of regret from the military alliance. About 200 men took to the streets of Kandahar to protest at the killings on a highway outside the southern Afghan city, burning tyres and shouting “Death to America, death to Karzai, death to this government”. Hours later,... 

Newly elected South African president sings a song called “Bring me my machine gun” which clearly instigates to violence. Even though the song “Kill the Boers” (kill white South Africans) is banned in South Africa, ANC leader Julius Malema says he will sing the song even from exile. He also says he has no respect for Terre’Blanche. But this type...