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Liberals go INSANE over new cash

Just when you thought liberals couldn’t get any more sensitive, now they are refusing to touch money because it offends them! The Bank of England’s new plastic 5-pound note is stronger, cleaner and safer — but apparently not acceptable for vegetarians. Vegans and vegetarians are calling for the new bank notes,… Read More

Shoe bomber can’t pay $250K fine

The British man sentenced to life in prison for trying to detonate explosives in his shoe on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 says he can’t afford the $250,000 fine that was part of his sentence. Richard Reid has asked a federal judge in Boston to declare him bankrupt. The Boston… Read More

Pilot audio tapes leaked from Brazil soccer team crash

The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight. In the sometimes chaotic… Read More

Tragic! Middle school dorm fire kills 12

A fire at a middle school dormitory for girls in southern Turkey left 12 people dead and 22 injured Tuesday night, a Turkish governor and state-run media said. Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtas said one teacher and 11 students were killed in the fire in the town of Aladag and the… Read More

Horror! Brazil soccer team killed in plane crash

A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 76 people and leaving just five survivors, Colombian officials said Tuesday. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline with roots in… Read More

U.S. students falling behind internationally

In a globally competitive world, American students have strides to make when it comes to math and science, where they lag behind a solid block of East Asian countries as well as Russia and Kazakhstan. Eighth graders in the United States improved their scores in math over the last four… Read More

Castro funeral procession to retrace history

After his band of bearded rebels won power in 1959, Fidel Castro embarked on a victory tour delivering speeches to cheering crowds stretching from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago to Havana. Starting Wednesday, his ashes will retrace that journey in a solemn procession to his final resting spot. The… Read More

Lawmaker SLAMS Obama for Castro sympathy. “Pathetic!”

President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy has long been the subject of fierce scorn from conservatives — and his sympathetic statement on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was a step too far for Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American whose parents fled Castro’s murderous regime. Rubio called Obama’s sympathetic… Read More

Millions of angry protesters swarm streets of U.S. ally (pics)

Millions of protesters are swarming the streets of South Korea following the revelation of a secret, shadowy cult figure named Choi Soon-sil secretly controlling the South Korean president for years, manipulating public policy behind the scenes for her own personal gain, reports say. Now South Koreans are demanding the resignation of… Read More