November 30, 2009
Police say that 15-year-old Bustamante confessed to the gruesome murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, whose throat was slashed and who endured multiple stab wounds; that Bustamante planned the crime in advance; that she hid the body; and that, as the AP summarizes, she did it “without provocation because she wanted to know what it felt like.”
Source:
http://gawker.com/5408975/
November 30, 2009
Swiss voters go to the polls later to decide on a proposal to ban the building of minarets in their country.
A symbol of Islam.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384835.stm
November 29, 2009
Crude oil prices tumbled Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, falling to nearly $74 per barrel on doubts of a strong economic recovery…
Source:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/11/27/Crude-oil-prices-tumble/UPI-15851259330940/
November 28, 2009
At a recent stop on her “Going Rogue” book tour, Sarah Palin told Canadian comedian Mary Walsh that Canada should get rid of its public health care system.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/26/palin-tricked-by-comedian_n_371698.html
November 28, 2009
the President issued Executive Order 13490, which bars anyone appointed by the President who has been a federally-registered lobbyist within the past two years from working on particular matters or in the specific areas in which they lobbied or from serving in agencies they had lobbied.
The aspiration we are announcing today builds on this
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/27/obama-pushes-lobbyists-of_n_372070.html
November 28, 2009
The impression left by the Climategate emails is that the global warming game has been rigged from the start.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574559630382048494.html?mod=wsj_share_digg
November 27, 2009
First the good news: The number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are actually worth is not as high as many thought.
In August, First American CoreLogic reported that about one third of U.S. borrowers had mortgages that could be called “underwater.”
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/underwater-mortgages-1-in_n_368782.html
November 27, 2009
It became clear early in his administration that Barack Obama’s White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”
Source:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29896.html
November 27, 2009
British policing has lost its way amid Government targets, initiatives and new laws, the chief of inspector of police has said.
November 27, 2009
“The opening of Iraq Channel on YouTube through this institution, the National Center for Information, will be one of the methods that we will adopt to connect with people globally and show the situation developing in Iraq,” he said.
