- A Paris soccer team comprised of practicing Muslims refused to play a game against another soccer team comprised of gays. The Muslim coach refused the game declaring, “due to the name of your team, we cannot play against you. Our beliefs are far more important than a football match.” The Muslim team now faces being expelled for discrimination from the city-sponsored league.
- One in six Japanese live in poverty, which is one of the highest rates among developed countries and puts it on par with the United States.
- 48% of Republicans think that Obama does not love America.
- The parents of Nevada’s Republican Senator John Ensign have contributed the maximum legal amount to the state’s other Senator, Harry Reid, who happens to be a Democrat.
- The German Federal Constitutional Court has outlawed electronic voting.
- Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper was asked what the Congressional Sportsmen Caucus does and responded, “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.”
- In what is supposed to be get-tough legislation, Canada is proposing locking up white-collar criminals who rip off $1 million or more for at least two years. They may even have to pay it back.
- Republican staffers in the House Oversight Committee will have to ask Democratic staffers for keys to the room. The Democrats changed the locks and kept the new keys for themselves. This is all about a partisan argument over the Countrywide VIP loan scandal.
- With 25 Chinese being held by Somali pirates, China is preparing for the furthest projection of force from its navy in modern times.
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