The unnamed boy allegedly shot dead his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, their lodger, at the family home in St Johns, Arizona, with a .22 rifle as they were coming home from work at a local power plant.....Link
THE HAGUE (AFP) - "Magic mushrooms" will be banned in the Netherlands from next week after a court ruling Friday, in the latest sign of a hardening stance on recreational drug use by the traditionally liberal Dutch......Link
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra spoke to two Texas television stations Wednesday night regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment by a Texas grand jury of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, along with other officials....Link
Austrian School economists advocate the strict enforcement of voluntary contractual agreements between economic agents, the smallest possible imposition of coercive (especially government-imposed) commercial transactions and the maximum openness to individual choice (including free choice as to the voluntary means of exchange). The role of the state should be confined to the provision of public goods and the regulation of common goods, and little else.link
abcnews.go.com — The credit bailout will be the most expensive single expenditure in American history, potentially costing around $7.5 trillion -- or HALF THE VALUE EVERYTHING PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES LAST YEAR. In comparison, the total U.S. cost of World War II adjusted for inflation was $3.6 trillion...link
PRAGUE — In the 1980s, a Communist secret police agent infiltrated clandestine economics seminars hosted by Vaclav Klaus, a fiery future leader of the Czech Republic, who had come under suspicion for extolling free market virtues. Rather than reporting on Marxist heresy, the agent was most struck by Mr. Klaus’s now famous arrogance........link
US President George W. Bush believes the Iraq war was a success and is "very pleased" with what is happening there, he said in a pre-recorded interview broadcast on a Japanese television network Sunday.link
money.cnn.com — The U.S. federal government on Sunday announced a massive rescue package for Citigroup, saying it would guarantee more than $300 billion in company assets, while injecting an additional $20 billion in capital into the embattled bank.link
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STUART, Fla. -- A student at a Florida school has been arrested after authorities say he was "passing gas" and turned off his classmates' computers. Link
uk.news.yahoo.com — Weird freak accident. Brazilian Marciana Silva Barcelos, 67, was on her way to the cemetery when the hearse she was travelling in was hit by another car. The coffin was thrown forward by the impact and slammed into her head, killing her instantly......Read more
A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.