Mrs. Mozart

BBC: A print of the only photograph of Mozart's widow, Constanze Weber, has been found in Germany. The photograph was taken in 1840 in the Bavarian town of Altoetting when she was 78. She died two years later. The local authorities say detailed examination has proved the authenticity of the image, which is a copy of the original daguerreotype. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Where Men Are Men And Sheep Don’t Call In The Middle Of The Night

A Guardian reporter ponders "Bushlandia". "It wasn't so long ago," a car-rental employee said, half-jokingly, "that if you voted Democrat round here, you'd get shot." Half-jokingly?

Duke Lacrosse Rape Case: Witness Intimidation?

That is what Radley Balko thinks, and frankly it sure looks that way to me. DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) -- A cab driver who has supported an alibi offered by one of the two Duke lacrosse players charged with rape has been arrested on an old shoplifting warrant. The warrant accuses Moez Mostafa of stealing five purses worth about $250 from a ...

Simian Rights In Spain

Robert Duncan, Spero News; After changing the definition of marriage by passing same-sex “marriage” legislation last year, now the Spanish government is bent on changing the very definition of “human.” Once again, the Spanish Socialist government is showing where its true priorities are – and it’s not about Iraq, nor immigration, and it’s certainly not about helping families. Instead, the Socialists are in ...

One Of These Things Is A Lot Like The Other

Uh oh. Matthias Küntzel, in Ahmadinejad's Demons Friday, April 14th ; The Basiji's cult of self-destruction would be chilling in any country. In the context of the Iranian nuclear program, however, its obsession with martyrdom amounts to a lit fuse. Nowadays, Basiji are sent not into the desert, but rather into the laboratory. Basij students are encouraged to enroll in technical and ...

Dress Up as a “Ninja” and…

...get arrested. Our nations finest at work. Apparently the University of Georgia student was coming from a party with the theme of "Pirates vs. Ninjas" and our brave men and women of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms are prepared for anything...including ninjas. So they drew their weapons, pointed them at the young party-goer then put ...

A Dingo Ate My Babies

The tale exploded in the local spotlight Monday when The Examiner in Independence ran on its front page a photograph of the couple holding six one-piece baby outfits and announcing the births. Those who heard the Eversons' sad story of tight finances set up a Web site to solicit contributions -- including a van, washer and dryer, cash and gift certificates. ...

Eight Dead Were Members of Bandidos Motorcycle Gang

Breaking: developments in the worst mass murder in Ontario history - According to a spokesman for the Ontario Provincial Police (news conference is underway) the eight slain men found in an Ontario farm field were all members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang, as is at least one of the five arrested and charged with 8 counts of first degree murder. ...

Toronto Tim Hortons Explosion

CTV; One man is dead following an explosion at a Tim Hortons restaurant in downtown Toronto. The blast occurred in the washroom of the coffee shop located near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor Streets, just after 1 p.m. Emergency crews responded to the scene and tried to help the victim. Fire department spokesman Daryl Fuglerud said the man had burns to his ...

Christian Peacemakers

South Florida style. h/t - The Hate-Filled Diatribess.

LaRouche Heckler at Scalia AEI Speech: Update

The AP story on the Scalia AEI Speech heckling incident was even more misleading than first thought. After the man left, Scalia answered questions for about 15 minutes but repeatedly declined to engage anyone who asked questions, even of an apparently friendly nature, that he felt were not related to his topic - the use of foreign law by U.S. courts. "I ...

Bush Unaware of Ports Deal Before Approval

The White House now says President Bush was unaware of the controversial sale of the company that maintains several U.S. ports to a company owned by the government of Dubai. President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been ...

LaRouche Heckler Disrupt Scalia AEI Speech

AP reporter Elizabeth White reports that Justice Antonin Scalia asked that a heckler be thrown out for no apparent reason during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia grew tired of a persistent heckler Tuesday and asked organizers of a legal seminar to do something about the outbursts - gently. "Don't use force," Scalia ...

Larry Summers Resigns as Harvard President

Larry Summers is stepping down as Harvard's president at the end of the academic year. Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, said today that he would step down at the end of the academic year. Dr. Summers will likely take a yearlong sabbatical and then return to Harvard as a distinguished professor of economics and public policy, ...

Your Name May Be Written In Your Genes

BBC on a new avenue of dna research that may be of some use in crime investigations; The technique is based on work comparing the Y chromosomes of men with the same surname. The Y chromosome is a package of genetic material found only in males. It is passed down from father to son, just like a surname. [...] For the study, ...