Flight passengers across the country are incensed over the introduction of new anti-terrorism screening procedures introduced by Homeland Security.
These procedures which include choosing between a full-body scan by image detectors and consenting to a probing pat-down, have not only fueled outrage among passengers, but also among airline workers.
Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano has reiterated that the measures are necessary to combat terrorism and are a worthwhile sacrifice towards achieving this end. Senior federal security officials insist they had prepared passengers for the institution of these measures, but judging from the …

The FBI did arrest a man court had declared dead over 16 years ago in Mississippi. The man is said to have kidnapped and killed a girl before damping her body in Central Louisiana woods.
The arrest of Thomas Steven Sander, 53, is a culmination of a long manhunt; the arrest was done on Sunday at a truck stop in Mississippi.
The man is said to have been involved in a series of crimes after abandoning his family before court declaring him dead. To the amazement of many he lived unnoticed despite …

Gunmen have attacked security offices in Yemen in an assault that was seemingly coordinated, in Abyan, a southern province.
Reports from witnesses said that there were heavy clashes about the intelligence and security agency offices in Zinjibar, a coastal town.
The gunmen in large numbers came in motorbikes and continued to open fire, where they left about two police officers dead. Police source indicate the belief is that al-Qaeda could have caused the attacks.
Reports from eyewitnesses also indicated there were many bodies spread across the street after the gunmen attacks, believing the …

An Appeals court in the US has ruled that the rule to ban profanity broadcasting was unconstitutional and thus struck it down.
Through the policy that came up in 2004, broadcasters were under the threat of being fined in case there were indecent words aired by them. In the judgment, the court expressed that the Federal Communications Commissions or FCC did have a rather “chilling effect” to many broadcasting entities.
Media outlets that had been challenging the 2004 rule were very happy and satisfied that the appeals court did that.
The appeals court …

In news that would be a bitter pill to Sarah Palin, Senator Lisa Murkowski is showing a strong hold on a lead in a Senate race in Alaska, still undecided, as workers in the election are preparing to continue counting additional write-in ballots.
By Tuesday, 8,800 ballots would have been tallied. However, on Monday, officials from the election had expressed that Murkowski was emerging strong after long days of serious counting to wield a lead of 1,706 over Joe Miller, a GOP nominee.
After losing a GOP nomination in August, Murkowski had …

On Sunday the US President praised the move to freeze on settlements in West Bank as the best move to have the Israeli and Palestine peace talks back on track.
The overjoyed Barack Obama was confident of talking to the parties of what he planned when he first called the talks when he took office, including being impartial and selling his ideals to the American population and was ready to have a change of policy and approach after loosing the mid term elections.
Speaking from the air base from a long Asian …

Sarah Maynard, a 13-year-old girl who went missing along with her mother, brother and a third woman, was found on Sunday in a basement, bound and gagged. The basement belonged to Matthew J. Hoffman who was taken into custody on Sunday after being apprehended at his Mount Vernon Home.
According to the County Sheriff in Knox, the girl was hospitalized and is in a stable condition. Although he did not establish what led his team to find the girl, Barber explained that Hoffman had listed as a second address, a house …

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, last week held a meeting with US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that lasted 7 hours. The meeting resulted in the formulation of a plan to revive talks in the Mideast that was tabled before the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday. The plan is based on the assumption that Israel and Palestine will draft and agree on a border between them in the West Bank within a period of three months.
However, three months is being deemed as a short time to accomplish what decades of spontaneous …

Friday December 5th is the date that the European Union proposes to meet with Iran so as to discuss Tehran’s nuclear program. This is after Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief turned down Tehran’s preference to have a meeting in Istanbul, a refusal attributed to the fact that the country would be backed by Turkish allies on the sidelines.
In a letter that contained the rejection of the Turkish capital as a venue, Ashton stated that after deliberations with a six-nation contingent of negotiators, acceptable venues would either be Vienna …

Evolutionaries still turn a deaf year to what the voter is saying.
A century has passed since the “progressive” movement took hold in the US. From that time the movement has tried as much as possible not to have a coup de etat to the nation using “revolution” but have chosen to use “evolution.” The movement has been taking slow but sure baby steps. A new entitlement is awarded one place and a liberty withdrawn in another place.
The final result is to have a socialist state take the place of …