Staples Hughes, a North Carolina lawyer, was on the witness stand and about to disclose a secret he believed would free an innocent man from prison. But the judge told Mr. Hughes to stop. "If you testify," Judge Jack A. Thompson said at a hearing last year on the prisoner's request for a new trial, "I will be compelled to report you to the state bar."
read moreThomas L. Friedman: If there is one overwhelming hunger in our country today it's this: People want to do nation-building. They really do. But they want to do nation-building in America. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm accused of killing 17 civilians in Baghdad that fears a loss of favor in Washington, is seeking a financial backer after talks with Cerberus Capital fell through. The North Carolina-based private army said that it needed financing to expand its operations and is thought to be looking for about $200 million. "Theirs is nearly all US government work," a defense industry source said, "and if that goes they are in trouble."
read moreIn October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers. Because of flawed electrical work by contractors, the bulletin stated, soldiers at American bases in Iraq had received severe electrical shocks, and some had even been electrocuted.
read moreAl-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Friday after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "I've been dreaming of this moment for the past seven years," he said in an interview with the Qatar-based Arabic news network.
read moreA CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president -- setting a new record low. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
read moreDozens of children seized from a West Texas polygamist sect had broken or fractured bones in the past and some of the boys may have been sexually abused, state officials said today.
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Rev. Wright did us a favor by exposing Sen. Obama as just another politician, and thus his statements could be called lies as well; better not to open that jar of crap.
Rev. Wright and Sen. Obama are One in the Same........
My God I never realized!