Daily Dish

When election workers were executed by Islamists in Iraq recently, AP photogrphers were right there. The folks over at The Belmont Club have been asking questions about how this came about; just luck or were they forewarned? Turns out, as Powerline reports it was the latter. And the Belmont Club explores truth, lies, reporting and the right to know.

US marines say they have captured two leaders of a militant group linked to Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Ramadi.

More high level "retirements" at the UN.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promised that Israel will work to ensure the Palestinian presidential election is both free and fair. Which is more than any Arab nation has pledged. Meanwhile, prominent Palestinian figures urge  an end to violence.

The US is ready to hold back military technology from European allies over EU steps to revoke its arms embargo on China, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

The government and the southern rebels in Darfur will sign a peace agreement on Jan. 10 end more than 20 years of civil war. This after the UN admitted defeat and Bush signed a bill threatening US sanctions of the Sudanese government.

A first hand account of Rumsfelds recent visit to Iraq. The Media won't tell you this stuff.

"Washington voters, confused by the bizarre turn of events in the excruciatingly close race for governor after more than seven weeks of vote counting, legal wrangling and partisan battling, are starting to sound quite flustered." No doubt.

The odds for an astroid strike on Earth are getting worse.

A man walked into the Samaritan House homeless shelter in Denver with a thick roll of $100 bills and began passing them out to each resident. Before disappearing in his Black SUV, he had distributed $35,000.

A Victoria University professor wants randy mountaineers to stop having sex at Mount Everest's base camp.

Firefighters rescue lemur

A man wearing a tight mini-skirt is found trapped halfway inside a St Vincent de Paul clothing donation bin.