What Do You Get When You Cross Auto Racing with Teams that Normally Play with Funky Looking Round Objects Constructed of 32 Pentagon Shaped Black & White Panels?

What do you get when you cross auto racing with teams that normally play with funky looking round objects constructed of 32 pentagon shaped black & white panels? You could get yet another successful open wheel racing series.

Memphis: Lessons to be Learned

Not every double-wide trailer is inhabited by a ignert chain-smoking, beer swilling couples with tattoos. Some, like the one in the infield of Memphis Motorsports Park, are home to NASCAR officials.

North Korean "Utopia" Grounded

The nineteenth century resort that is North Korea seems to be in a spot of trouble when it comes to getting a major portion of it's air force off the ground. A large part of it has been grounded for want of a few gallons of cheaper gas. Read the rest.

Special Delivery for CoT Haters

Or maybe it's a Candygram. At one time Tony Stewart didn't think much of the CORN, in fact early in the year he described it's looks as "something that SCCA has loaned NASCAR and I feel like we should give it back to them." But things have changed since then...

Garth Tander Scores Triple V8 Supercar Win in Perth

Holden's Garth Tander had a perfect round at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway, winning race two and three yesterday to add to his race one win in the V8 Supercar Championship second round.

The "New Schumi" Doubles up in Australia

Nico Hulkenberg now has six A1 Grand Prix wins, at the age of 19, the German racer has placed Team Germany in a dominant role — now 82 points in the 2006/'07 season.

Kiwis on Aussie A1GP Front Row

Nico Hulkenberg continued his command performance today on the 3.93km Eastern Creek circuit for this weekend's A1 Grand Prix round in Australia.

A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid? - Los Angeles Times

It's hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre. But now-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a longtime friend decided to sell property owned by the employee pension fund that he controlled.

Will Al Gore Melt - If not, why did he chicken out on an interview?

Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Last week he was in Denmark to disseminate this message.

GOP hits Pelosi's 'hypocrisy' on wage bill

House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week.

New U.N. Chief Defends Death Penalty for Hussein

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Tuesday that Iraq and other countries have the right to impose the death penalty, adding that the world should never forget Saddam Hussein's "heinous crimes."

The Boom Outside Baghdad By Amir Taheri

WHILE the American political elite is using Iraq as an excuse for fighting internal political wars, a different reality is taking shape in parts of this war-torn nation.

Courts Side With NSA On Wiretaps

Defense lawyers who had hoped that the public disclosure a year ago of the National Security Agency's wiretapping program would yield information favorable to their clients are being rebuffed by the federal judiciary, which in a series of unusually consistent rulings has rejected …

Banking Data: A Mea Culpa - New York Times

Via the New York Times' public editor, Byron Calame: Banking Data: A Mea Culpa

Shock and Awe in Lebanon - Early Warning

The southern neighborhoods of Beirut bear a resemblance to some primitive terrain: rubble strewn, broken and scarred Entire city blocks are devastated. Ten-story apartment buildings are gutted and reduced to concrete stacks.

Beware the Truthers. Don't Ignore Them.::By Mary Katharine Ham

Last night, I was headed home from the city around 9 p.m. I was driving over the 14th St. Bridge when I saw, on the other side of the Potomac, hundreds of fingers of light reaching for the sky. As I got closer, I saw they were coming from the center of the Pentagon.

The Calgary Sun - Sept. 10 people wrong

Are you a September 10th person or a September 11th person? September 10th people think the world hasn't fundamentally changed since the terror attacks of 9/11. September 11th people know it has.

Iraq to take control of armed forces - Yahoo! News

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq will take control of its armed forces command on Thursday, a major step on its painful path toward independence and an essential move before international troops can eventually withdraw. ADVERTISEMENT

Prosecutors Want Lawyer Punished

Prosecutors seeking a 30-year prison term for a lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists have called her behavior "flagrant abuse of her profession" ahead of next month's sentencing hearing.

Democrats for Worker Exploitation

Alex Scherer-Jones began working for Grassroots Campaigns to fight the Bush administration and elevate the fortunes of the Democratic Party. The 21-year-old MATC student left feeling exploited and sour: "I went in there being very idealistic and it kind of ruined my idealism."

Katrina: Forget everything you thought you knew - Examiner.com

WASHINGTON - If you've only gotten your news about Hurricane Katrina from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is probably wrong.

Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami

For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami for talks during his visit to the United States starting this week.

Davis' Tamil trip scrutinized | Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON -- Chicago congressman Danny Davis and an aide took a trip to Sri Lanka last year that was paid for by the Tamil Tigers, a group that the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Who Presided Over Government NSA Case May Have Had Conflict of Interest

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and judicial abuse, announced today that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who last week ruled the government's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional, serves as a …

Military upbeat on Baghdad clampdown

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Baghdad has declined in the past two weeks and all but ended in some formerly deadly neighborhoods, the U.S. military said in a cautiously upbeat report on Tuesday on a major security clampdown in the city.

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