Day July 20, 2004

Nader says he’ll now accept signatures collected by GOP In an about-face, Ralph Nader decided Monday to accept thousands of petition signatures collected by Michigan Republicans if that was the only way he could qualify for the state’s presidential ballot.…

Sharon’s call for Jews to flee outrages France When Israel’s prime minister on Sunday urged the Jews of France to flee immediately to Israel to escape anti-Semitism at home, the reaction was swift, angry and unified. French officials, lawmakers, commentators…

Arnold’s drops mask, gets smacked down. Schwarzenegger’s homophobic, insulting comment calling California legislators who dare disagree with him, “girlie men”, has backfired. As I write this, the story is front page on Google News, with 367 links, the overwhelming majority of…

New terrorist weapon? Blast turns drink machine into chemical weapon United States Homeland Security officials were notified after an exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I.