July 4, 2009

Mish: More Idiocy From the SEC: Reinstatement of Short-Selling Restrictions

NYPD rookie arrests robber minues after graduation

Loud sex mistaken for assault; girl's pals beat mom's lover

Judge TentativelyAcquits Missouri Motherin MySpace Hoax Case

1 Dead, 4 injured in Ocracoke Island, NC fireworks truck explosion

Little Taliban resistance early in operation

Feds' corruption probe looks at top Florida officials

India Joins Russia, China in Questioning U.S. Dollar Dominance

Boston Globe's "The Big Picture Blog" looks at the recent Honduran coup d' etat

Boehner Reaches Into Bag of Tricks to Disrupt Democrats

Gov. Corzine joins legal fight to overturn federal ban on sports betting

U S Marshalls kick Ruth Madoff out of her penthouse suite

SC serial killer conjures memory of 60s murderer

How Sanford spent state money on last year's Argentina trip

Iran plans to put British Embassy staffers on trial

Two US soldiers, 32 Taliban killed in Afghanistan fighting

Honduras Pulls Out of OAS

Palin resigning as Alaska governor on July 26

July 2, 2009

WSJ: Photos For The Day - 1 July 09

Barron's: Checks for greener cars are unlikely to overcome consumers' newfound thrift

Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini, Has Some Good News

McDonald’s unveils a bigger burger priced around $4.00

Asteroids, the arcade game from the 1970s, is officially in development as a movie. Yup, you read that right.

US Soldier Captured in Afghanistan

Chamber of Commerce Launches $100 Million Campaign to Protect Wall Street's Power at Our Expense

Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code

New Class of Black Holes Discovered

467K Jobs Cut in June; Jobless Rate at 26-Year High

Stocks Skid On Payroll Data

French: Air France plane hit sea vertically

FBI: Saddam Feared Iran More Than U.S., Said He Never Cooperated With Al Queada, Called Osama bin Laden "Zealot"

Al Jazeera gaining favour in Canada

Suit tries to block Tennessee's guns-in-bars law

Sputnik Solar Lamp Brings Free Light to Your Yard

'Wednesday - July 1, 2009

Breathtaking Rescue: Construction Worker Pulls Trapped Boater From Roiling Waters Below Dam (Video and Photos)

Python strangles girl, 2, in Florida home

Duke University official offered adopted son for sex

ATF Saturates Houston With Door To Door Investigations For Guns Run To Mexico

Greece has introduced a ban on smoking in hospitals, schools, vehicles and all public places

Teen plane crash survivor 'didn't feel a thing'

The Big Picture Blog Looks At The International Space Station's Latest Photos

The Wipe Out Begins For Million Dollar McMansions

Reversal of a Ten Year Treand: American Cities Begin to Grow Again During the Great Recession

The Five Worst Jobs For Teens

Ticketmaster Pays $50,000 Fine, Closes More Than 100 Deceptive Web Sites

Florida offers help to some with home down payment

Woman being questioned in murder investigation had squirrel pop out of her blouse during interrogation

GE announces invention of threshold micro-holographic storage material that allows 500 Gigabytes to be stored on one DVD sized disc

Will California Grind To A Halt If No Deal Is Made?

Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World Cartoon On Healthcare Titled "Here We Go Again"

Years of investigation into 4 Seattle area stripclubs finally leads to indictment of 92 year old owner and five others on prostitution, rackateering, money laundering and other charges

Bird-brain Dinosaurs Stumbled into Death Trap

Rhode Island marks its 30th year of legal indoor prostitution

The Longest Election: Senator Al Franken (D-Minn)

Man arrested for driving a bulldozer while intoxicated . . . and digging up the lawn and knocking down trees on his neighbor's property

FDA to crack down on Tylenol?

WSJ: Photos For The Day - 30 June 09

Consumer confidence in jobs and Economic Recovery falls again in June

Citi raises rates on millions of credit cards: report

San Diego and California Housing Sales Data for May Lower Than Previously Reported Due To A "Glitch In San Diego MLS Reporting"

Panics R' Us: Why Obama's financial 'reforms' won't prevent future crises

Many With Insurance Still Bankrupted by Health Crises

Obama Administration fires opening 150 page salvo at bankers, credit card operators, and mortgage lenders with its proposal for a Consumer Protection Agency

Prisoner jailed for stealing jail's computer

72 Year Old Ex-Boxer Beats Up Knief Wielding 23 Year Old Punk

Tuesday - 30 June 09

Delinquency rates on the least risky U. S. mortgages more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier

Yale’s Shiller Sees ‘Improvement’ in Rate of Home-Price Decline

Child Survives Crash of Yemeni Jet Carrying 153

15 people die from car bomb blast in Kirkuk, Iraq today

Two Chatam, Mass beach homes pulled out to sea by fierce storm

Housewife finds £250,000 treasure with metal detector

General Butt Naked confesses to nude killings

Mike Richardson - He rode Dark Horse comics to fame, his way

Finally, and may this spread to the USA: Standardized mobile phone charger coming to EU—iPhone, too

Report: botnets sent over 80% of all June spam

Bill Fleckenstein takes aim at the Real Estate lobbyists (National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Mortgage Brokers) who are trying to trying like hell to blow bubbles in Real Estate prices again

Supreme Court quashes 9/11 lawsuit against Saudis

EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites

Fireworks over Baghdad as Iraqis take over cities

Journalists briefly detained by troops in Honduras

Child Frozen In Time: Size of a toddler with a toddler's brain, 16 year old "non-aging" girl baffles doctors

Mountains of paperwork stop foreclosure/loan remodifications dead in their tracks

"Starface" fesses up

WSJ: Photos For The Day - 29 June 09

Why Iran is not having a 1989 moment

China's Relationship With America

Michael Jackson 'bald, riddled with needle holes'

Paul Krugman: "Betraying the Planet"

3 Men Die in Toxic Well in Queens

United States leads the world in teen pregnancies

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk talks with Ken Edelstein about the infamous Obama fly swat, their reaction and why PR matters

Yemeni plane crashes in Comoros with 150 passengers on board

The Florida Keys are ill-prepared for rising sea

Vengeance runs rampant among Vancouver, British Columbia's young drug gang outlaws

New Florida law makes driving without buckling up an offense with a $114 fine

Fired Fox Entertainment Columnist Roger Friedman Files $5.2 Million Lawsuit Against Fox News

Obama: Ouster of Honduras President Was an Illegal Coup

Financially strapped Michigan offers to imprison California inmates to earn revenue

Yao Ming's NBA Career May Have Ended Due To Foot Injury

White firefighters lawsuit backed up by U.S. Supreme Court . . . overturning nominee Sonia Sotomayor's appeals court decision

Toy factory race riot in China leaves 2 dead, 118 injured

Monday - 29 July 09

India's first "sea bridge" to open this week

New York to launch mortgage probe

Ahmadinejad: Neda's death is 'suspicious'

Hookers hurt by Recession in Nevada

Four floors of Atlanta car park collapse

Baghdad set for US pullback party

Jim Kunstler: "Man In The Mirror"

Will scandals inspire evangelicals to stray from Republican Party?

Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison

Foreclosures: The poor pets are getting left behind

Does USA 2009 = Argentina 2001? Part I: Falling economy reaches terminal velocity

Sears to Let Jobless Customers Stop Payments, Still Keep Fridge

U.S. Companies Seek New Tax Havens

Air Force test fires missile from Calif coast

Who moved my 'Delete' key? Lenovo did. Here's why

IEA says world oil demand to drop by 3.7%

In Iran: Imams vs. Imams, Mousavi vs. The Supreme Leader, Ahmadinejad & the Revolutionary Guard

Facebook vs. Google, how the social network plans to wall out the biggest search engine and steal its dominance on the Internet

Va. Man commits family homicides and suicide


The Big Picture Blog looks at "A troubled week in Iran"

15 Ways To Fix The World

Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability

Nigerian rebels raid Shell Oil facility, claim to have to have killed 20 soldiers

Riot police clash with 3,000 protesters in Iran

San Diego deputies arrest 2 and pepper spray many at Democratic fundraiser

U.S. beef recall expanded, 18 illnesses suspected

Seven year old boy dies from Father's Day beating by mom's boyfriend

WSJ: Photos For The Day - 26 June 09

Nearly completed 13 story Shanghai high-rise falls over

Brazil rallies to defeat U.S. in soccer final 3-2

Hondurans torn over military coup

New Honduran Leader Sets Curfew

Latin America Calls Summit to Try to Restore Zelaya

Honduras' president ousted in military coup

Madoff can expect at least a life term at sentencing

Billy Mays, the OxiClean Pitchman on TV, dies

5 More Banks Closed This Past Weekend