- Imelda Marcos is going to run for the Philippine Congress.
- A Canadian minister had a bag of confidential documents stolen from a friend’s car after it was left running and unlocked while he ate dinner at a restaurant.
- Sarah Palin thinks the public deserves some answers about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. In reality, it looks like she is just mad that people questioned who Trig’s mother was.
- A California city councilman was defeated for reelection. He has now collected over $11,000 in unemployment. A bill has been introduced in the state legislature to prohibit defeated politicians from collecting unemployment.
- Public sex tents in San Francisco?
- 70% of Arkansas’ voters do not think that a governor should have the power to reduce a felon’s sentence. This follows the fallout from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s release of police-killer Maurice Clemmons nine years ago.
- A Swiss politician has backtracked on his call for a ban on Jewish and Muslim-only cemeteries.
- There are 104,100 private contractors in Afghanistan – a euphemism for mercenaries. That exceeds the 98,000 American soldiers who will be there once the Obama administration’s surge is completed.
- Poland is considering banning communist symbols and penalizing those who display them by up to two years in prison.
- Mohamed El-Baradei, the outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, may run for President of Egypt.
- Hugo Chavez took over three more banks in Venezuela.
- Silvio Berlusconi is being accused of having made a deal with the Sicilian mafia in the 1990s.
- Jody Trautwein, the pastor who tried to talk Sacha Baron Cohen’s character “Bruno” out of being gay, is running for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
