- Toledo’s mayor, known for his support of red-light cameras and running down red light runners in his own city vehicle, has been ticketed four times for running red lights himself. One of those times involved passing a car that had slowed to stop at a red light. The mayor has only paid two of the four tickets. The other two were mysteriously dismissed.
- A children’s book on gay penguins has drawn the ire of neo-Nazis after Polish schools in Gdansk refused to remove it from the curriculum.
- Al-Qaeda is in its weakest financial condition in years.
- Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have attacked Pakistani nuclear bases three times in the last two years.
- Barney Frank called gay marches “a waste of time at best.”
- With half its budget gone, Ophir, Colorado, is considering growing marijuana to balance the budget.
- Interest on the national debt will consume 40% of income tax revenue.
- A proposed Canadian law would allow authorities to enter homes and seize unauthorized and anti-Olympic signs.
- Japan has begun a campaign to prevent groping, which is a widespread problem in Japan.
- Lyndon LaRouche has his followers trying to recruit on college campuses and doing what they can to ruin everyone else’s good day.
- Miss Indonesia is a Muslim, and Muslim clerics are aghast that she does not wear a hijab.
- Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has accused Iranian leaders of using inquisition-style techniques on reformers.
- Hillary Clinton said she will never run for President again.
- Syria is the latest tobacco-loving Arab country to ban smoking in public.
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is going to pay $19,000 for going over his expense limits.
- The British have arrested a nuclear scientist with al-Qaeda connections.
- Osama bin Laden’s first wife and fourth son have published a book, Growing Up bin Laden. Bonus: It includes Osama taking his four wives and fourteen children on a desert camping trip.
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