Judge Cornelius Moriarty refuses to reverse his decision to bar ...
Union-News & Sunday Republican
SPRINGFIELD - Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius J. Moriarty II will not reverse his decision to bar evidence in a controversial drug case, a move that may force the state's hand to pursue the case in federal court. In a decision docket...
Arizona State University refuses to give Obama honorary degree
American Thinker
President Barack Obama may be delivering a commencement address at Arizona State University this Spring - one of three campuses where the president will send off the graduating classes of 2009 - but he won't be coming home with any degree. ...
Green shoots
bbc
Do you remember one of the most notorious quotes of the last recession? The claim in 1991 by the former Chancellor, Norman Lamont, that he was seeing "the green shoots of economic spring". Well, the woman who is Gordon Brown's most importan...
Obama moves to block abortion 'refusal' rule
Raw Story
The administration of US President Barack Obama moved Friday to rescind a rule that would allow health care workers to deny medical care such as birth control or abortion to patients if it clashes with their morals. The Department of Health...
Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?
OpEdNews.com
But the Taliban, reported CNN, "refus[ed] to hand over bin Laden without proof or evidence that he was involved in last week's attacks on the United States." The Bush administration, saying "[t]here is already an indictment of Osama bin Lad...
Judge declines to dismiss charges against Alaska senator
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal judge Thursday rejected a motion by defense attorneys asking him to either to declare a mistrial in the criminal case against Sen. Ted Stevens or dismiss the indictment against him. Instead, Judge Emmet Sulliva...
French ‘Vogue’ Twitters and We LOVE IT
Nymag.com
... French, you can probably figure out the gist of things. Plus, they're on top of the Bruno runway invasions like the bouffant on Sarah Palin's head. A taste: "Tentative d intrusion. Borat en marin a jeté l'ancre chez vanessa bruno mais ...
Lieberman more dangerous than Ahmadinejad
Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu reconfirmed his determination to form a broad coalition, despite the apparent refusal of Barak and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to join a Likud-led government. "[I do] not plan giving up on efforts to form a unity government in face ...
Labour trying to undermine rival HBOS bids–Salmond
Scotsman
ALEX Salmond increased the pressure on the UK government over the HBOS takeover yesterday, accusing Labour politicians of "leaking and briefing" in an attempt to undermine rivals to the Lloyds TSB bid. He also accused Gordon Brown, the Prim...
Increase in Medicare, Medicaid Managed Care Plans Has Led to 'More ...
Kaisernetwork.org
However, according to the Journal, "[m]anaged care fraudsters profit by ... shortchanging patients or physicians to cut costs while collecting preset fees from the government," as well as by "refus[ing] to enroll unhealthy people, skimp[ing...
Ragsdale blasts Knox audit, calls for outside investigation
Knoxville News Sentinel
Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale returned fire Thursday at the county auditor’s review of his administration’s community grants program, alleging auditor Richard Walls violated the county charter by failing to do his job correctly and that W...
Denis Paradis adheres to REFUS TOTAL and supports up-and-coming ...
CNW Group
ORFORD TOWNSHIP, QC, Oct. 4 /CNW Telbec/ - The Liberal candidate in Brome - Missisquoi, Denis Paradis, today showed his support for tomorrow's artistic talents. "We don't recognize ourselves in the Harper government's cultural policy. We ha...
Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan wins $25,000 Iskowitz Prize
CBC News
Sullivan studied modern dance in New York and later signed the Refus Global, a manifesto for dance innovation, widely considered a foundation of modern dance in Quebec. Her artwork today "goes back to that creative coalescence," but is "pro...
