Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the Senate needs more time to review the record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor after new material surfaced from her time with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. “Just a day or so ago, we discovered that there are 300 or so boxes of additional material that has just been discovered from her time working with the... 

That’s the essential message from the 111th Congress to you and me: “eat dirt and die, peons”. The cap and trade bill passed in the House, 219- 212. More than forty Democrats voted against it, but a half dozen or so Republicans crossed over, enough to give them a majority. Here’s where you can read the roll call results to find out how your Congressman voted. Those suckers passed on it... 

The ACLU is demanding that schools in Michigan stop expelling violent out of control students. Claiming that it has to be white people’s fault that some black students are committing violent crimes and getting kicked out of school! Schools are not using enough discretion under Michigan’s zero-tolerance expulsion law and are disproportionately kicking out black students who ultimately end... 

Nine former SS men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Rome military court on Saturday for allegedly massacring more than 350 civilians in Tuscany in 1944, as the Nazis fled from the advancing Allies. The nine men are all aged between 84 and 90, and they are therefore unlikely to serve their sentences. A tenth defendant was acquitted and another died during the trial. In cases of... 

This weekend’s gay pride parade in Chicago will have a new group participating – students and parents from a local elementary school. Parents from Nettlehorst Elementary – both gay and straight – approached organizers and asked to march in the parade on Sunday, which goes right past the school in East Lakeview. Parade coordinator Rich Pfeiffer says he thinks the inclusion of... 

Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won’t serve jail time, ending a case that thrust a small Louisiana town into the national spotlight and sparked a massive civil rights demonstration. State District Judge Tom Yeager then sentenced the five, standing quietly surrounded by their lawyers, to seven days unsupervised probation and fined $500.... 

At age 88, John Kalymon is a man stuck in the past. He lost his U.S. citizenship two years ago after the government said he shot Jews while working in a Nazi-controlled police unit during World War II. Now, Poland is conducting a criminal investigation into what happened nearly 70 years ago in a town called L’viv. The Justice Department has agreed to help Poland by questioning Kalymon about murder,... 

Con woman: Joann Wood A lesbian, who conned users on gay website chatrooms out of over £90,000, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Joann Wood, 53, trawled online dating agencies for victims, telling them that she was terminally ill with cancer and needed money for treatment. Today, victim Catherine Wheldon told St Alban’s Crown Court how she had lost her life savings of £28,000, and... 

A Roma mother from Republic of Moldova tried to sell her child for 12 lei (1 US Dollar). All this happened at Briceni, announces the Internal Ministry of Kishinev. “I will kill him if you don’t buy him. I got 3 other children and I don’t have money for this one so I’m selling it”, declared Oxana Elinciuc which is suspected of selling her own child. She is 29 years old... 

The Holodomor (Ukrainian: translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies that forced farmers into collective farms. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest national calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history. Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine... 

Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide ‘racial balance’ to statistics, it has been revealed. They are targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice, said terror law watchdog Lord Carlile. But their tactic of ‘self-evidently unmerited searches’ was a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and ‘almost... 

Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two 40-page booklets entitled “Love, Body and Playing Doctor” by the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung – BZgA) are aimed at parents – the first addressing... 

The adoption agency headed by Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic churchman declared yesterday that gay rights laws have forced it to stop trying to find potential homes for children. The Catholic Children’s Society, whose president is Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, announced that it will no longer assess individuals or couples as prospective adoptive or foster parents. The... 

Every day we open our newspaper, switch on the television news or trawl the internet, we learn of yet another monstrous but mistaken decision by Gordon Brown and his demoralised rabble of a government — and each decision is yet more proof of his extraordinary talent for preaching like a Presbyterian elder while acting like a dodgy hedge-fund manager. After newspaper revelations about MPs’ outrageous... 

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been caught out once again blatantly lying with image manipulation over recent events in Iran, claiming that a crowd which had rallied in support of the controversial incumbent president was in fact rallying in support of his opponent. The blatant deception has become typical not only for the BBC but for many media outlets in Britain, and has brought shame upon...