This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
March 4, 2010
Fifty years ago in Houston, John F. Kennedy declared in a famous speech to Protestant ministers that his Catholic faith would not influence the public policy decisions he made as President. But Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput told an audience at Houston Baptist University on Monday that Americans of all faiths are still “paying for the damage” from a speech that was “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.”
“Real Christian faith is always personal, but it’s never private,” sai
Source: AP
March 4, 2010
The son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said he was "horrified" when he learned earlier this week that clothing that his father was wearing when he was assassinated in 1968 was being displayed at an exhibit in Las Vegas.
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy criticized the Los Angeles Police Department in a commentary prepared for Friday's Op-Ed page in the Los Angeles Times.
Maxwell Kennedy, a former assistant district attorney who lives in Los Angeles, called the displa
Source: Gettsyburg Times (PA)
March 3, 2010
Two local municipalities have agreed to support a Journey Through Hallowed Ground project that aims to plant one tree along Old U.S. 15 for every soldier killed in the American Civil War.
The proposal has generated unanimous support from the Cumberland Township Board of Supervisors and Gettysburg Borough Council’s Community Development Committee.
“They’re not looking for any money, so it’s at no cost to taxpayers,” explained Cumberland Township Supervisor Randy Phiel.
Source: Homer Tribune (AK)
March 3, 2010
Seldovia’s St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, sitting atop its hill as it has for more than a century, is currently in transition because its members are so few in Seldovia that services are seldom held there.
However, contrary to speculation, the church is not for sale, said Russian Orthodox priest, Father Michael Oleksa. Apparently the rumor started because land around the church is listed for sale, after a trailer court nearby has overflowed onto church property, creating a “squatt
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
A letter written by Adolf Hitler in 1931 hoping for a "truly cordial relationship" between Britain and Germany in place of the present "unhappy war-psychosis" is to be sold at auction.
Hitler wrote the one-page letter, in German, to Sefton Delmer, a British journalist, 16 months before he became Chancellor and seized power in 1933.
In it, he wrote: "I hope..that out of this crisis a new readiness will grow up in Britain to submit the past 12 yea
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 3, 2010
A best-selling book about atom bomb survivors in Japan has been pulled from shops following claims sections of it may have been based on false accounts made up by an imposter.
Charles Pellegrino's Last Train from Hiroshima has been dropped by its US publisher, Henry Holt and Company, which said it had doubts over facts in the book.
After publication in January, it emerged that a source who claimed to have been on the US bombing mission over Hiroshima had invented his st
Source: ANI
March 3, 2010
Washington, March 3 (ANI): Reports indicate that a collection of Hellenistic coins dating back to the era of Alexander the Great in northern Syria have been found by a local man.
Buzz up!
According to a report in Global Arab Network, a local man found the coins near Najm Castle in the Manbej area in Aleppo governorate, as he was preparing his land for construction
, uncovering a bronze box that contained around 250 coins.
He promptly delivered the co
Source: AP
March 3, 2010
French archaeologists announced Wednesday the discovery outside Cairo of the burial chamber of a mysterious queen from Egypt's Old Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago.
The necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo has yielded a string of new discoveries as 10 different teams excavate a previously untouched area of these burial grounds were used continuously for more than 2,000 years until Roman times.
French mission head Philippe Collombert said the mummy of Queen Behenu was d
Source: BBC News
March 3, 2010
A large space rock may have exploded over Antarctica thousands of years ago, showering a large area with debris, according to new research.
The evidence comes from accumulations of tiny meteoritic particles and a layer of extraterrestrial dust found in Antarctic ice cores.
Details of the work were presented at a major science conference in Texas.
The event would have been similar to the Tunguska event, which flattened a large area of Siberian forest in 1908
Source: WTKR (VA)
March 2, 2010
Virginia's first commercial wind farm has cleared its final regulatory hurdle.
The State Corporation Commission has dismissed a complaint that the wind farm in Virginia's Highland County would ruin the view from a Civil War battlefield in West Virginia. The commission posted its ruling late Monday....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 3, 2010
A war veteran who thought he had arthritis only to discover his discomfort had actually been caused by a German bullet which had been lodged in his hip for the last 66 years.
Fred Gough was told by doctors told that he had been unwittingly been carrying the memento since his time battling on the front line in World War II.
The 83-year-old pensioner, from Darlaston, West Midlands, had been referred to hospital for an x-ray after suffering from an ache in his right leg.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 3, 2010
Irish president Mary McAleese is reported to be hopeful the first state visit would take place during her term in office, which ends next year.
It would be the first time a British monarch has set foot in the Irish Republic.
A visit has been mooted for several years as the Ulster peace process brings closer ties between London and Dublin, lowering the hurdles.
Such an event would have been inconceivable prior to the IRA pledging to hand over its weapons; th
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (AU)
March 4, 2010
Thirty-odd little strands of hair, one big mystery.
Nobody knows how a tawny-coloured lock of hair, apparently snipped from the head of Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed, found its way into the bowels of Sydney Town Hall.
Attached to a letter claiming it was a cut from the ''illustrious dead'', the tuft has sat in underground storage for decades among the kitsch international gifts and relics accumulated by the City of Sydney, while councillors debated suburban develop
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
March 3, 2010
The first train whistled into Flagstaff on Aug. 1, 1882, touching off a "noisy and rough celebration," according to an account by the late historian Platt Cline. All the men in town were armed, and many shot off their firearms to mark the event.
On Tuesday, more than a century later, there was another celebration at the train station in Flagstaff, and in keeping with the theme, it turned out to be even quieter than planned.
Mayor Sara Presler picked up one of
Source: Radio Free Europe
March 3, 2010
Belarusian officials, foreign diplomats, and former inmates of Nazi concentration camps gathered in Minsk to mark the 68th anniversary of a massacre of Jews, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
The ceremony was held March 2 near Minsk's Yama (the Ditch) memorial to commemorate the more than 5,000 people from the city's Jewish ghetto who were killed by Nazis on March 2, 1942.
Leanid Levin, the chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Association in Belarus, told RFE/RL that d
Source: Sky News
March 2, 2010
"We don't think that's necessary," the Prime Minister's spokesman said after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated Washington's readiness to step in if required.
"We welcome the support of the Secretary of State in terms of ensuring that we continue to keep diplomatic channels open but there is no need for that (direct involvement)," he told reporters.
He spoke after Foreign Secretary David Miliband updated the Cabinet on the latest develop
Source: Independent (UK)
March 3, 2010
The criminal record of one of Britain's most notorious villains has been discovered gathering dust in a police headquarters.
More than 40 years after he was jailed Ronnie Kray's police record has been uncovered during an office move at Durham Police HQ.
In the document, which dates back to the 1950s, the murderous twin is described as a dog breeder, wardrobe dealer and club owner who will kill in any circumstances.
Source: Times (UK)
March 3, 2010
Like everything to do with the celebrated murder trial, O.J. Simpson’s courtroom clothing is a part of American history — or is it?
The suit that the former American football star was wearing in court when he was acquitted on October 3, 1995, is now to be donated to a museum.
A bitter legal battle over the tan suit, patterned tie and white shirt ended in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a deal to preserve the clothes for posterity.
Fred Goldman had been tryin
Source: Times (UK)
March 3, 2010
A co-producer of the low-budget Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has been barred from this weekend's Oscar ceremony for denigrating the film's main rival for the Best Picture award.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Nicolas Chartier was being banned from Sunday’s awards show for "violating Academy campaigning standards" by sending e-mails to voters disparaging the 3D blockbuster Avatar.
The decision means that if, as widely expecte
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 3, 2010
The Prince, who hosted a reception a his London home to celebrate the work of the country's only national stammering centre, was joined by Michael Palin and Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary.
Before the event Mr Balls pledged £500,000 to a national appeal for a new institution in the north of England to assess and treat youngsters with the speech problem.
His department has already made half a million pounds available to the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children
