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War Gaming Decriednew

Some Montreal residents question Ubisoft's contracts with the U.S. military.

Montreal Mirror | Jesse Rosenfeld | 07-02-2007 | Video Games

Pat Buchanan's Silence Was Goldennew

It isn't often that the former presidential candidate gives someone else the chance to speak, but he clammed up when forced to consider truths of what many Americans share with undocumented immigrants.

Pasadena Weekly | Kevin Uhrich | 07-02-2007 | Immigration

Tags: illegal, Immigration, immigrant

Rose Parade Float Sparks Human Rights Questionsnew

Persecuted for their beliefs by the Chinese government, Falun Gong practitioners decry that nation's inclusion in the New Year's parade.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 07-02-2007 | International

Tags: international

Roland Hernandez is Passionate About Baseball Batsnew

Hernandez, who has worked for the Forest Service for 17 years, has started his own bat operation, turning rock-hard sugar maple billets into Rock Bats.

Isthmus | Jason Joyce | 07-02-2007 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness

Gov. Don Siegelman's Squandered Legacy of Promisenew

Siegelman can deny charges against him all he wants, but he cannot refute that his administration allowed the foulest elements of Alabama politics to hold sway in Montgomery.

Birmingham Weekly | Kyle Whitmire | 07-02-2007 | Politics

American Paranoia Creeps North with Canada's No-fly Listnew

The no-fly list introduced this month by the Canadian government is a result of "American pressure" and "is not good" for Canadian security services, says a government intelligence official.

Montreal Mirror | Samer Elatrash | 07-02-2007 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties

Reunited Blue Mountain Reinvents the Same Old Songnew

It's all love between former husband and wife Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirrat and the ghost that hovers just out of sight in all their songs: The South.

Birmingham Weekly | Daisy Winfrey | 07-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Blue Mountain

Going Fissionnew

As the government continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize nuclear power with all its drawbacks, it sets aside only a pittance for research into and development of truly renewable energy sources -- perhaps that's because our national power policy is to sustain only the coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy providers.

Birmingham Weekly | Courtney Haden | 07-02-2007 | Commentary