Chirac’s off the tab
An investigation into French President Jacques Chirac’s 2.2 million euro ($3.7 million) food bill while he was was mayor of Paris has been dropped after the current mayor admitted he had exhausted all legal options in the case.
A Paris appeals court last week dismissed the case against Mr Chirac and [...]
U.N. Obstructs Justice by William Safire
“I’m angry that we find the U.N. proactively interfering with our investigation,” Senator Norm Coleman, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, informed Lou Dobbs on CNN, “by telling certain folks not to cooperate with us.” He repeated for emphasis his sharp response to Secretary General Kofi Annan’s “interfering [...]
Police: Driver Tried to Run Over Katherine Harris
A Florida motorist was arrested on Wednesday on charges of trying to run down U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris at an intersection where the controversial former state elections chief was campaigning for re-election to Congress.
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No one was hurt. Witnesses noted the car’s license tag number and [...]
Suspected burglar found dead in store’s air duct
A man who was found dead in a ventilation shaft at a Fort Bend County convenience store apparently became trapped while trying to burglarize the building, authorities said Monday.
The unidentified man was found about 8:30 a.m. Monday by an employee of the Amigo Express Drive-In Market [...]
Marijuana ‘petition’ actually voter registration form
Students, who last month signed a petition that was being circulated on the Blue Bell campus to legalize marijuana for primarily medicinal purposes, now are finding out that they are registered Republicans.
Soros-supported voter-registration drive probed
Billionaire currency trader George Soros, in his quest to unseat President Bush, has [...]
Saddam’s Sugar Daddy
CIA chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer may not have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but he sure found information enough to blow the lid off the simmering scandal of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. As it turns out, Oil-for-Food pretty much was Saddam Hussein’s weapons program.
As Duelfer documents, Oil-for-Food [...]
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