- South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is facing 37 ethic violations for travel and finance expenses that he claimed.
- There are more driving violations for the Schwarzenegger family. After Maria Shriver was caught talking on a cell phone while driving and parking in a red zone, Arnold Schwarzenegger was seen getting into a silver Porsche parked in a red zone in Beverly Hills.
- The Philippines’ presidential election is next year, and there are some interesting characters preparing to run.
- A world survey found that 57% oppose a proposed UN resolution banning blasphemy. Support for the resolution extended throughout Muslim countries and India. Africa was split; most north Asians opposed it; Europe, Latin America and North American were dead set against it.
- Two groups applying international humanitarian law to video games found a widespread “absence of rules or sanctions.” The worst offenders were 24, The Game; Army of Two; Call of Duty (4 and 5); Tom Clancy Splinter Cell Double Agent; and World in Conflict.
- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for money laundering. It is the first U.S. prosecution of a one-time foreign leader since Manuel Noriega.
- Nepal’s former King Gyanendra, now just a commoner, has received his first passport, a year after being dethroned in a vote by his country’s people.
- Iraq’s elections, scheduled for January, “might slip” to a later date.
- Even before Honduras votes on Sunday, no one has anything good to say about the elections.
- There is enough evidence to charge five government ministers in Afghanistan with embezzlement and fraud, but President Hamid Karzai refuses to sign the arrest warrants.
- Republican leaders are developing a 10 point issues statement to identify which Republican candidates deserve party funds or endorsement. If a candidate disagrees on more than three issues, that candidate can expect no help from the national party.
- Iran has banned its largest newspaper for running a photo of a Baha’i temple.
