Anchorage shock jock suspended for broadcating anti-Palin organizers phone nu...

"Radio host Burke suspended for a week By JULIA O'MALLEY | jo'malley@adn.comPublished: September 15th, 2008 05:46 PMLast Modified: September 15th, 2008 10:15 PM Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke was been...

British girl's remains found in suitcase in Brazil

The dismembered body of a British girl was found stuffed into a suitcase in Brazil yesterday, and her British boyfriend was arrested for the crime. Different parts of her body were found in different places, including off the side of a highway and in a nearby river. It is...

Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture

Should the cases be heard in the courts it could expose even more details of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The plaintiff's lawyers keep the door open for more CACI workers being sued and more former prisoners adding to...

Solomon Burke: last of the great soul men

The great Solomon Burke talks to Robert Chalmers about his life as mortician-turned-preacher but most of all as one of the all time great soul men. " "Humility," I ask Solomon Burke, soul legend, mortician and...

Phoenix country club bans women from its dining room

In a strange throwback to the days when men sealed business deals with a brandy in one hand, a cigar in the other, and their wife waiting for them in another room as they were banned from entering the 'men's...

Can Atheists Be Parents?

"After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services—until investigators came...

NYC Suffers a Wee Blackout

Parts of uptown Manhattan and the Bronx were hit yesterday by a blackout -- it lasted less than one hour and was probably fueled by the massive, nasty heat wave the City's experiencing right now. At least the Upper...

Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader

" Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader A major in Saddam's army, believed to have masterminded the London bombings, could have been betrayed in Tehran, reports Jason Burke "

James Lee Burke movie ‘In the Electric Mist’ to start filming in April in...

"Jones plugs ‘In the Electric Mist’ JANUARY 29, 2007 - 12:47 PM Tommy Lee Jones is set to topline the feature film version of James Lee Burke’s novel “In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead,” adapted by Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jerzy Kromolowski. Jones will...

The Danger in Your Water

Fluoride has been tied to bone cancer, lower IQs, and osteoporosis. So why is it still being added to your water? One fall day in 2004, Lea Anne Burke got a call from a neighbor. Had she heard that the city council was talking about adding fluoride to their water supply in...

Tall order for relocated charity fair

PLANS for one of the area's biggest county fairs are being made – with hopes that it will raise thousands of pounds for charity. The 11th Rotary County Fair will be held at Kelmarsh Hall for the first time this year and organisers are busy making sure it will be bigger and...

Los Angeles to Study Trans Fat Ban

"The government war on trans fat, started when New York City banned it from restaurant food, has reached Los Angeles. Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to study the feasibility of banning artificial trans fats from restaurants there, and the City Council in...

Bush Is No Conservative

"Bush Is No Conservative Paul Craig Roberts Lew Rockwell.com Tuesday, December 5, 2006 The conservative movement in the United States has been stamped out, not by liberals but by neoconservatives. Conservative philanthropic foundations, conservative print media, and...

Red In Tooth and Claw

"Blogging Tory; mesopotamia west writes; There is one fact that binds Liberals, Socialists and Communists; a belief in the perfectibility of man, the feeling that somehow, someway, a loving, caring and compassionate humanity can be hammered out of the anger, greed and...

A priest suspended a divinis for heresy by Mons Burke?

Father Selvester at Shouts in the Piazza posts an unconfirmed report that Archbishop Burke has suspended one of his priests for heresy.  "Apparently, the man wrote (or co-authored) a book that ultimately denies the existence of the human soul".  Presuming that the...

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