Archive for February 16th, 2008

Makes case ideology is mental disorder
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were...
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Family members dispute official death toll from tainted medications
PANAMA CITY, Panama - Panama’s government has vastly underestimated the number of people who died from taking medications tainted with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid, family members and a lawyer for the victims said.
The official death toll, set late last month in a...
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By OMAR SACIRBEY
Muslim Americans and political observers heralded the 2006 elections as a sort of debutante's ball for the Muslim voter, when anger and organizational heft pushed unprecedented numbers of Muslim citizens to vote and get involved with U.S. politics.
The 2008 election cycle, however, isn't quite working out that way.
Many Muslim Americans...
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U.S. group appeals to Saudi king to spare her life, prosecute religious police
President Bush with King Abdullah
A Saudi Arabian court's decision to execute a woman for witchcraft has drawn the protest of international human rights groups.
The trial and conviction of Fawza Falih is a "miscarriage of justice," said Human Rights Watch in an...
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