Link: Pelosi Stirs Questions With Denial She Was Briefed About Waterboarding

The article goes into the contravercial interrogation techniques that were reportedly used on terrorist suspects.  Nancy Pelosi had claimed that she had never been briefed on these torture techniques being used on the suspects, but later on two anonymous officials were ( Read more... )

Link: Iraq: Deadly U.S. raid breaks security pact

I found this article on MSNBC.com and have found it to be a decent one.  It reports the tension between US and Iraq forces after a raid in southern Shiite city.  The Prime Minister of Iraq claimed that the raid broke the US security pact and it has been called a crime.  US officials deny this claim ( Read more... )

Link: Irritated Obama 'Stares Down' Reporter During Press Corps Visit

The press seems to be looking for anything at all to report about Obama.  This article was written about his first apparent visit to the members of the White House Press corps.  He was apparently irritated by being badgered by questions as soon as he arrived, and whether or not ( Read more... )

Fox news put up this article on Sunday, April 26.  Just one look at the title, and it was not hard to figure out just what I would be finding inside.  The article goes in to the Department of Health's planned actions in response to the public health scare despite a missing chair.  It also talks about the current state of the swine flu, how far it ( Read more... )

Article: U.S. advisers secretly training Pakistani forces

This proved to be an interesting article in terms of how much and how little information it gave all at the same time.  It makes interesting use of the word "secret", and that is the kind of word to raise all kinds of alarms in any viewer's heads.  U.S. military specialists have been training ( Read more... )

Article: Appeals Court Terminates Gov. Schwarzenegger's CA Video Game Law

The defeat of the California state law in regards to violent video games was considered a huge win and a breath of relief for the game industry and other associated parties.  The coverage of this moment, however, seems very bias and one-sided.  It also lacks proper background ( Read more... )

News Link: Vt. Country Store turns racy

When browsing for an article to write about here, I had not been expecting to see something like this on the front page of the Burlington Free Press website and in the most prominent position with other articles that really seemed to be of a superfluous nature.  With all the issues that the Burlington Free ( Read more... )

News Link:  New clashes 'kill 12' in Pakistan

I found an interesting news article that is dated January 26, 2009.  New clashes 'kill 12' in Pakistan.  The article goes into some recent deaths that resulted from the battle between Pakistan and Taleban Militarists.  The details on just who died, though, seem to be a bit murky.  The article quotes two ( Read more... )

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Many mysteries and beauties had been born from The World, and, in return, The World had reached out with claws masked as gentle, loving hands.  It was difficult to escape those claws.  They ripped and tore even as they whispered seductive words in to ears that were desperately seeking answers.

She had never been obsessed or addicted to ( Read more... )

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Reflection

The young Queen and the free-spirited girl stared at each other through the glass.  The two were born from the same soul.  Both were kind, intelligent, beautiful, and had a love for all the people of Alexandria.  That love was only surpassed by love for a certain troublemaking thief with a tail.

That one soul had ( Read more... )