HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: "HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing."

CNN.com - Bush: Amnesty report 'absurd' - May 31, 2005

CNN.com - Bush: Amnesty report 'absurd' - May 31, 2005: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush called a human rights report 'absurd' for criticizing the United States' detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said Tuesday the allegations were made by 'people who hate America.'

'It's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world,' Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.

In a Rose Garden news conference, Bush defiantly stood by his domestic policy agenda while defending his actions abroad. With the death toll climbing daily in Iraq, he said that nation's fledging government is 'plenty capable' of defeating terrorists whose attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers have intensified"

LCN - R�gional - Heurt�e par un train, elle s'en tire miraculeusement!

LCN - Régional - Heurtée par un train, elle s'en tire miraculeusement!: "Lac-Mégantic

Heurtée par un train, elle s'en tire miraculeusement!

Mélanie Lachance a un nom prédestiné: la fillette a échappé par miracle à la mort après avoir été heurtée par un train samedi à Lac-Mégantic."

GCC Urged to Peg Its Currency to Gold

GCC Urged to Peg Its Currency to Gold: "SHARJAH, 29 May 2005 — The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should peg its proposed currency to gold rather than the American dollar or euro in view of the currency fluctuations in the international market, says an expert in currency and gold."

HP Announces New National Identity System Solution Built on Microsoft .NET Platform

HP Announces New National Identity System Solution Built on Microsoft .NET Platform: "The HP NIS solution allows governments to build and quickly deploy at an affordable price a complete, standards-based and technologically agile infrastructure that meets their changing needs for security and identity management.

Going beyond simple secure identification and authentication functionality, the solution enables modern national identification systems to allow citizens to access e-government services and conduct secure transactions. The solution also provides citizens with improved secure and intelligent identity documents.

For example, with heightened security awareness at national borders, the solution fulfills the new requirement to ensure traveler and citizen credentials across an entire country or region."