The clock is ticking, Saddam to be hanged tonight: An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the…

For the July release of the book! This was one of the top eight news stories on Yahoo. I wonder how many more of these stories we will be getting before July. I predict that it will be one of the top news stories of the year. While the number represents only a fraction of…

Well, I guess it’s good news for those of us who get our exercise this way (when I actually do it): The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport. Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical…

I’m glad to see sanity has returned to Israel, why release prisoners when the Palestinians have one of your men. Israel has rebuffed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ request to free Palestinian prisoners ahead of a major Muslim holiday, insisting that Palestinian militants first agree to release a captured Israeli soldier. The decision was at odds…

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