Benazir Bhutto: A Tale of Two Legacies

One person,  Benazir Bhutto, one death, two Posts, Washington and New York  and two completely different takes.  

David Ignatius, Washington Post, came to laud the late Benazir Bhutto, via RCP:

Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding

The Telegraph:

 A Chilean prostitute has become an instant celebrity in the Roman Catholic country after auctioning 27 hours of sex to raise money for a disabled children’s charity.

Maria Carolina has made headlines and appeared on talk shows since

CLIO-MI (AP)- A police officer checking on a truck that got stuck in the mud at a city park was startled to find a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel. The boy’s father, who was sitting in the passenger seat, told

Hands down, the strangest line I’ve ever seen, from a local paper in Anderson SC

 About 3 p.m. Nov. 3, the woman, who is divorced from the 60-year-old man’s son, reportedly accused her new husband of hiding “five

Say Anything:

Despite all their protestations of piety and clean living as well as their condemnation of anything they deem to be “Unislamic” it seems that our friends from the Religion of Peace have a keen desire to dive right

Sky News –A teenage schoolboy was pulled around his classroom on a lead and spanked by a stripper after a birthday surprise blunder. The pupil’s mum had ordered an agency to give her son a “surprise” on his 16th

WBBM-TV is reporting:

CHICAGO (CBS) ? You may have seen him stubbornly standing up to an invasion of evil robots this summer in “Transformers,” but if you were in downtown Chicago early Sunday, you may have seen him stubbornly standing

From the UK comes word that Santa has been ordered to slim down.

Santa is being told to shift the pounds before Christmas – because the obese saint is failing to set a “good example” for children.

The traditional children’s

Captain Ed says:

Those darn Puritans in New York just can’t let anyone have fun, even middle-school students. Can you imagine that people might have considered having strippers as volunteers at a Halloween celebration for Middle School 51 inappropriate? Why,

Usually, I just ignore this kind of garbage.  But this one, no… I can’t do it.

TPM says

In Shirley MacLaine’s new book, the actress and longtime friend of Dennis Kucinich makes an interesting claim: During a visit to her

Jawa Report:

(Mexico City) On October 8th, Mexican writer of horror stories, Jose Luis Calva (pic), was arrested after fleeing from police who were investigating strange smells coming from his apartment.

Police were looking into the disappearance

MOSCOW (FOX)—  A small Russian city just got a really big addition: its resident has delivered her 12th baby at 17.05 pounds — the biggest on the nation’s record.

Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesarean section at a

According to Simon Kennedy, the UAW and the GM have settled their strike:

LONDON (MarketWatch) — The United Auto Workers reportedly reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday with General Motors Corp. that will end a two-day strike and

Des moines Register –A Des Moines man went to jail Wednesday afternoon for allegedly throwing an onion at his wife.The police report begins: “(The victim) states her husband had been drinking and they got into an argument.”James Izzolena, 54,

OMG… Ya know, there are times when one wonders what people initially see in each other, that gets lost enough to get into this kind of thing:

SPARTANBURG —(Charlston.Net)  A dispute between a husband and his estranged wife Monday ended