A report at the Independent by Ben Lynfield focuses on Palestinian activists who are “scathing about the Pope’s plans to make the first visit by a pontiff to the tomb of Theodor Herzl” – the founder of Zionisism. Zionism is the political movement, Lynfield explains, “that established Israel and displaced the Palestinians.” Lynfield continues: Omar Barghouti, a Ramallah-based member of the Boycott, ...

A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg, New York officials $15,000 to change the town’s name to Veggieburg.  “The town’s name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows,” said Joe Haptas, spokesman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), in a letter faxed Monday to Hamburg Supervisor Patrick Hoak.  PETA offered to supply area ...

Fishkill Upstate New York Welcome to the small, upstate New York town of Fishkill, or should it be called Fishsave? All was quiet in Fishkill until an animal rights group, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, took issue with the town’s centuries-old name.  PETA wants the town to change its name, claiming it suggests cruelty to, well, fish.  ...

Phoenix police have arrested a 21-year-old woman accused of sexually abusing a 2-year-old relative and then trying to blame it on another child.  [1] According to Officer James Holmes, police were called to Rickesha Burns’ home at 67th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road on Sunday afternoon for an “unknown trouble” call.  When police arrived on the scene, Burns was holding ...