October 23, 2009 - Be sure to click the red "A1A News" header at top of the page to see all the news from the past 24-48 hours

America's real quagmire: the Media owned by or in bed with the Military Industrial Complex

Big Picture Blog looks at Hindu's "Diwali 2009"

White House panel says NASA should skip the moon and fly elsewhere in 155 page document

Rapper Lil' Wayne to serve one year in prison on gun conviction

Coming to the end of the $8,000 first time homebuyer's credit, NAR says sales rose 9.4% in September for the biggest rise in home resales in 26 years

FCC vote unanimously for open Internet rule with "reasonable" net management

Pelosi: House health bill will include public option

Jet Overshoots Airport by 150 Miles

Over 1,100 law enforcement agents take over South LA and beging locking up members of the Rolling 40s Gang

Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record

10 animals on the verge of extinction

Average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage edges up to 5%, Freddie Mac reports

WSJ: Photos for the Day - 22 Oct 09

The Most Dangerous Global Warming Deniers

U.S. Drones Aiding Pakistani Military Offensive

The Apple of Nokia's Eye

The high, the awakening, the unraveling & the crisis: the turnings in Anglo-American history

Attending community college does make you richer, study says

Ice-Skating Bear Kills Trainer

Bill making violence against gays a hate crime headed to White House

US Deaths in Afghanistan reach 806

U.S. maps protected Alaska habitat for polar bears

Consumer advocates cheer, FIRE Economy leaders jeer advance of new Consumer Protection bill

Congressman Grayson (D-FL) amends "Names of the Dead" website

Strong earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan

White House tells Dick Cheney to stuff his "dithering" charge about Afghanistan

Phillies repeat back to back NL Pennant wins and soon to be 2nd World Series appearance in a row

Body in Georgia is missing Florida girl, sheriff says

October 22, 2009 - Be sure to click on red "A1A News" header at top of the page to refresh your news

300 plus Mexican drug cartel suspects arrested in 19 states over past 2 days by the Feds

Newsday switches to subscription model online at $5.00 per week starting next Wednesday

Propane tanker explodes on an Indianapolis ramp, closing Interstates 69 and 465

WSJ: Photos for the Day - 21 Oct 09

WSJ: Waiting for the Next McMansion to Drop

Madoff's office had 'wild' sex, drug parties: suit

Sweat Lodge Witness: Ray "Just Stood There"

Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment

'Missing Link' Primate Fossil Debunked

Venezuela: Chavez Urges 3-Minute Showers to Conserve Water

Google and Bing Race to Search Social Media

Police: Man ran down 'too Westernized' daughter

CBS News Exclusive: Mexican Drug Cartels in Atlanta

The Big Picture Blog: "2009 UN World Drug Report"

China’s Economy Grows 8.9%, Fastest Pace in a Year

Israel 'met Iran' at atomic talks

Barron's Alan Abelson: "Homebuyers' Handout -- Worse Than Cash for Clunkers"

John Kerry's Comeback

Investigators say couple tied to religious cult may have sexually assaulted more women

Fattiest Franchise Burgers

The nation's first "white spaces broadband" network goes live in a rural Virginia town, bringing high-speed Internet to a 900-person town that has struggled for years to get access.

How Mormonism Created Glenn Beck

Bahamas judge orders retrial in Travolta extortion case, citing possible juror misconduct

10 Signs It's Time To Quit Your Job

Woman in W.Va. Torture Case Now Says She Lied

Apple Magic Mouse wows without wires, wheel

Feds say Massachusetts man conspired to help terrorists planning to hit mall entrances and first responders

Thirteen Senate Democrats joined Republicans in rejecting a $245 billion 'doc fix’ to prevent cuts in payments to Medicare doctors

Microsoft's Bing search engine lands deal with Twitter and Facebook

Cops searching for missing 7 year old Northern Florida girl find body of young girl in Georgia landfill

Federal government about to slash the pay of the top 25 employees at the 7 biggest firms which accepted Federal bailout funds

Legislation to regulate derivatives passes House panel, next to go to full House vote

October 21, 2009 - Be sure to click on the red "A1A News" header at top of the page to refresh your news

Fiserv says housing in the USA to get much cheaper . . . expects Miami, Florida to drop another 30% by next June

Video timeline for last night's Frontline show "The Warning"

Are Baby Boomers higher cancer risks because of Atomic testing between 1951 and 1962?

WSJ: Photos for the Day - 20 Oct 09

The Battle Against Letting Wall Street Continue to Make a Killing on Derivatives

21 killed in Indian train crash

Va. Tech student missing since Saturday after attending a Metallica show in Charlottesville

Easy Sales of Hydrogen Peroxide Questioned in Beauty Parlor Bomb Plot

Three states may sue FedEx for labor violations

How to Do Speedy Math, Make Fast Food Fancy, Pwn Craigslist

This is the bust in the boomtown that banks built: Beneath Charlotte's shiny skyline, 'a new humility'

Oprah hopes Sarah Palin's appearance on her show will win back viewers

Did Brinkmannship, Not Reagan or Gorbacev, Fell Berlin's Wall? Brinkmann Says It Did

Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month

Why Women Have Sex

Time: A Fight Over Doctors' Reimbursement Rates Is Latest Threat to Health Reform

Video shows Toronto 18 convict testing bomb trigger

Steve McNair case finds that Sahel Kazemi knew man who sold gun to her
Text messages show details of McNair's final night with Kazemi

Something Rotten in the State of Texas

The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind

‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’

California sues State Street, the huge Boston Bank, for $200 million, accusing it of mis-handling two pension funds

Ex-Fed chief, Paul Volcker, 82, says investment banking needs to be broken off from commercial banking. His plea is falling on deaf ears

A New Old Freebie: Restaurant Matches Return

How Skype Is Changing the Job Interview

NYT: "A Drone Strike And Then Dwindling Hope"


Meteor shower tonight! Orionid meteor shower begins at 1 am

Commentary: Retirement hasn't been easy for Miami Heat's Tim Hardaway

The Curious Case of Meghan McCain

Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty

4th teen this year commits suicide by standing in front of a Palo Alto Caltrain

With real unemployment at 20%, that sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

Catholic Church to allow more Western clergy to marry

Housing Starts in U.S. Increased Less Than Forecast

The Race to Save Lehman Brothers

Layoffs: Sun Microsystems cutting 3,000 jobs

Newborn child found in a bag in Chesterfield, VA yard

October 20, 2009 - Be sure to click on the "A1A News" header at top of the page to see all of the past 24 to 48 hours of recent news

The 2008 Bailout vs. Other Large Government Projects (click on image above to enlarge)

Bankruptcy filings rise 51% in last 9 months

32 planets discovered outside our Solar System

20 wardrobe mistakes you do not want to make on a job interview

American healthcare on parade . . . Attorney: CA nurse assistant in vegetative state denied care after being attacked at hospital

Microcosm of America: Virginia's Governor Race

PM Gordon Brown says world leaders have 50 days to save world from Globabl Warming

Man stabbed son over clogged toilet

The Big Picture Blog looks at "Saturn at the Equinox"

ABC News-Washington Post Poll: 57 Percent Support Public Option

Public Option gets new life in the Senate

The Internal Revenue Service is examining more than 100,000 suspicious claims for the first-time home-buyer tax break

China's auto output sets record as more than 10 million cars have been manufactured this year already

S.C. GOP chairmen: Sen. DeMint like a ‘Jew’ who is ‘watching our nation’s pennies’

Mexican Police find 9 dismembered bodies

New word in the lexicon . . . "sideshow" . . . means dangerous driving practices resulting in 3 deaths and 3 injuries in Oakland this past Saturday

Financial Armageddon in Alabama Proves Parable for Local U.S. Governments

Gold at $2,000 Becomes Inflation-Adjusted Bullseye for ‘80 High


WSJ: Photos for the Day - 19 Oct 09

Peter Schiff: "Ignorance Is Bliss"

What happens if the dollar crashes?

Five technologies which could change it all

State Tax Revenues Falling Off a Cliff

Gates Says ‘Encouraged’ by Pakistan’s Campaign Against Taliban

Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters

Oil up for 9th day, moves above $80 a barrel and hits 1-year high on weak dollar

Singing the Home Builders Blues

Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, Says Housing Market is Getting Worse

From health-care reform to Afghanistan, Joe Biden has bucked Obama—as only a good Veep can

WSJ: Photos for the Week, Oct. 12 - 17, 2009

How Evangelical Christianity is wreaking havoc on innocent children in Africa: Churches are involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches

Newsweek looks at the 6 myths about China in "Everything You Know About China Is Wrong"

Op-Ed in the NYT by Bono of U2: "Rebranding America"

For a healthy retirement, keep working

Basic Medicare premium to rise 15% next year

NASA: Largest airborne study of Antarctic ice cap melt is taking place now

Which is worse, nuclear waste or climate change?

Is Jay Leno ripping off Howard Stern?

3 risk factors for going blind

For 3 months CBS News investigated former Tennessee Titans Steve McNair's death. They have discovered many mistakes by Law Enforcement detectives

October 19, 2009 - Extra Edition - Be sure to click on the red "A1A News" header at top of the page to refresh news

Jim Kunstler: Marching Toward Zombieland



Tom Brady and Patriots set records in their snowy 59-0 whomping of the Tennessee Titans

Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold

Other scores from around the NFL

Barking dogs explained

Three people die while running Detroit Marathon

This global recession will turn into a "full-blown depression," Nicu Harajchi, CEO of N1 Asset Management, said Friday

University of Conn football player stabbed to death at party celebrating Homecoming Victory

Recession drives uptick in speeding tickets and sales of Escort fuzzbusters

October 19, 2009 - Be sure to click on the "A1A News" header at the top of the page to refresh your news

The Big Picture Blog looks at "World Animal Day 2009"

U.S. Said to Target Wave of Insider-Trading Cases After Galleon

Pakistan Army vs. the Taliban goes to Day 3 in fierce fighting in Wazirstan and other Northwestern areas on Afghan border

For-profit prison operators are gaining as demand for cells outstrips supply

Atlantic Monthly: "Does the Vacine Matter?"

GOP bigwigs in Georgia accepting stimulus money they derided in the beginning

Chris Martenson: "Exponential Money In A Finite World"

Rodger Rafter on Michael Moore's latest film "Capitalism - A Love Story"

What goes on behind reporters' backs