The most important news for Monday, February 8th, 2010....
Sarah Palin says that she "would be willing" to run for president in 2012, but that no formal decision has been made.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that he believes that the obliteration of Israel "is certain".
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered his country's nuclear agency to begin the production of higher enriched uranium.
An Iranian air force commander said on Monday that Iran will soon unveil a domestically-made air defense system with at least the same capability as Russia's S-300 anti-aircraft hardware.
Iran has begun producing advanced unmanned drones capable of carrying out assaults "with high precision".
In addition, Iran officially started production of two new missiles on Saturday.
There are even rumors that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
According to one new report, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf.
One Syrian government official says that Syria is ready for peace or war.
Remember this one - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved his country’s new "first strike" military doctrine which allows preventive nuclear strikes against potential aggressors.
Uh Oh - More than half of Chinese people questioned in one new poll believe that China and America are heading for a new cold war.
The mid-Atlantic was absolutely devastated by 2 to 3 feet of snow over the weekend, and now there is word that another half a foot of snow could be coming on Tuesday.
15 months ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote that the Washington D.C. area rarely gets snow anymore because of global warming.
The government of India has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it says that it "cannot rely" on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The economic crisis in Greece threatens to throw the globe into financial turmoil unless something is done right away.
Social Security's annual surplus nearly evaporated in 2009 for the first time in 25 years and it looks like there are huge financial problems ahead for the Social Security program.
The debt problems of the United States government continue to get worse.
Churches throughout the United States are being urged to prepare for another lean year as Americans continue to grip their wallets.
More than one out of every 10 Americans is now on food stamps.
Some good news - the U.S. government has announced that it is abandoning the National Animal Identification System - at least for now.
It has now come out that the U.S. State Department wanted to keep underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab out of the U.S., but that intelligence agencies insisted that Abdulmutallab be let into the country.
Arapahoe County will become the first law enforcement agency in that state of Colorado to begin identifying criminals, missing children and seniors using biometric analysis of the human iris.
5 former spy chiefs, 4 police state hacks, and a former Goldman Sachs executive stand to make a ton of money when the U.S. government orders more of their intrusive full body scanners for airports across the United States.
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and to retain those logs for two years.
One high school student in New York was recently arrested for doodling on her desk.
A U.S. soldier recently waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
The Pentagon's advanced research division has set aside 6 million dollars from its next budget for research on the creation of "synthetic organisms" whose DNA can be altered to make them live forever.
There is an epidemic of rapes and sexual assaults among survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.
Is a deadlier "third wave" of the H1N1 swine flu about to hit the United States?
An underwater volcanic eruption was detected on Wednesday morning close to Minami-Iwoto island in the Pacific Ocean and there is speculation that the eruption could form a permanent island.
Is a lot of the stuff that you buy being made by slave labor in the third world?
One new survey has revealed that less than 18 percent of Americans say that church is the friendliest place in town.
Lastly, the "Green Police" ad that Audi ran during the Super Bowl is actually what our society is going to become if we are not careful.
