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Who told the worst political untruth of 2005? It’s a shame the list of contenders is so long. See this article from the Newsweek for the rest of the story and please let us know what you think!

BBC writes here: The niece of Osama Bin Laden has posed for provocative photographs for an American magazine. Wafah Dufour, an aspiring musician and model, is the daughter of the al-Qaeda leader’s half-brother Yeslam. She appears stripped to ostrich feather lingerie, and in a bubble bath, in photos for American GQ magazine. US-born, she says she is an American, and distances herself from her uncle. "Everyone relates me to that man, and I have nothing to do with him," she says.

You can find this story by Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer here: "Lawmakers have feuded over drilling in Alaska’s wilderness for a quarter-century, ever since Congress in 1980 passed a law saying only it could determine whether drilling was permissible in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." What is your take should drilling be allowed in Alaska or should it remain untouched?

Janko Tietz reports here in Spiegel Online: "As Ebay continues to grow, so too do security problems. A new wave of hackers has found an innovative way to hijack user accounts. All you need is a program to rapidly test possible passwords, and a little bit of patience." See also this page: Consumer Information, from the FTC on issues related to E-Commerce & the Internet.

You can read this article by Marion Kraske and Jan Puhl at the Spiegel Online website here: "Accepted into the European Union last year, the former eastern bloc countries are the latest to capitalize on globalization. Followed by Slovenia and Slovakia, the Baltic States have set a cracking pace with their radical economic reforms. Their fervor is alarming its old-school neighbors in the West."

So asks George F. Will in this article at the Washington Post’s website: "The president’s authorization of domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency contravened a statute’s clear language. Assuming that urgent facts convinced him that he should proceed anyway and on his own, what argument convinced him that he lawfully could?"

How to Exit Iraq, by Henry A. Kissinger, you can find this interesting article here at the Washington Post website with the title: "At First, Iraqi Soldiers Should Augment U.S. Forces, Not Replace Them." Please let us know what you think is the best exit strategy.

Found this story here at Wired News: Religious conservatives are threatening lawsuits and boycotts to insist that store clerks and advertisements say "Merry Christmas." Countering are those who argue they are being inclusive and inoffensive with the secular "Happy Holidays."
Heck wish they would solve the real problems of this world first before making up new ones!

Found here at the Washington Post: This year has been one of the hottest on record, scientists in the United States and Britain reported yesterday, a finding that puts eight of the past 10 years at the top of the charts in terms of high temperatures.

Three studies released yesterday differ slightly, but they all indicate the Earth is rapidly warming. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has concluded 2005 was the warmest year in recorded history, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.K. Meteorological Office call it the second hottest, after 1998. All three groups agree that 2005 is the hottest year on record for the Northern Hemisphere, at roughly 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the historical average.