MICHAEL McGurk left behind him a tangled web of financial woes when he was gunned down in the driveway of his upmarket home.
McGurk investigation snares ministers
SENIOR ministers will give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of lan deal corruption, stemming from the murder of Michael McGurk.
Kyle's career hangs in the balance
Kyle Sandilands is facing career uncertainty again after he was suspended from his radio show for controversial remarks offending Holocaust survivors and their families.
Man charged over wife's cliff fall
A man has been charged with the murder of his wealthy wife, who fell to her death from a cliff during a camping trip four years ago.
Two arrested over five hour terror spree
Two teenagers who allegedly went on a five-hour spree of terrorising Newcastle university students will face court on attempted robbery charges.
Congressman Yells 'You Lie' at Obama During Speech
The outburst from Rep. Joe Wilson came directly after the president said, "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." Later, Wilson apologized.
$44,000 found in car visiting prison
More than $44,000 dollars in cash has been found in the boot of a car of two women visiting a Bandido bikie inmate at Silverwater jail.
Fees up, as are bank boss salaries
BANK bosses give themselves pay rises of up to $2.7m, while customers fork out record fees.
Hackers attack Prime Minister's website
KEVIN Rudd's website was shut down as a protest over proposed internet censorship reforms.
Steve Jobs returns for Apple event
APPLE boss Steve Jobs has bounced back from a liver transplant to reveal new music products.
Troops free kidnapped NY Times reporter
NATO troops have released a reporter from Taliban captors in a commando raid, but his Afghan colleague was killed.
Media ignore government failure and focus on Hockey's twittering
FEDERAL MP Joe Hockey has come under fire for using his Blackberry during parliamentary proceedings.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Wash. Post = Hypocrites?
Last night we told you (ON THE RECORD at 10pm) to check to see if the Washington Post ran the same type of article about President Obama and his speech to students that they ran in 1991 when President Bush 41 spoke to students ... did they? First, watch this ... and then go investigate the Post and see
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President's Address to Congress
First at 4p et -- Before the president's speech, Neil is LIVE from D.C.!
Then at 8p et -- As Obama pushes his health care plan at a joint session of Congress, we bring it to you fair and balanced!
After the Speech -- Don't miss our primetime lineup!
- 9p et - The O'Reilly Factor
- 10p et - Hannity
- 11p et On the Record
=== Comments ===
Eight years on from 9/11, Rudd learnt exactly zilch
Piers Akerman
EIGHT years after 9/11, the Rudd Labor Government doesn’t seem to have learnt anything about the nature of terrorism. - I don't feel that the ALP cares that it is seen to be self interested rather than working for its constituent voters. It is almost as if it is a point of pride that the ALP can ignore what is required for the well being of the state in favor of squeezing a quick buck. Examples of which need only be found by naming a sector and seeing what the ALP has done. Education has seen curriculum compromised to force willing teachers to spruik for socialism. An education revolution where computers are given to year 9 by first paying developers that are ALP friendly. Where pork barrels are rolled into polling venues specifically naming and praising ALP figures.
Environment has seen cheap water dams spurned in favor of expensive desalination plants. Water has been taken from farmers and given to rivers for green votes. Expensive solar power projects have been trumpeted and then dropped after elections. Democratic nations like India have been denied access to nuclear material but corrupt and compromised nations like China have been given access.
Law and order has seen corruption watch dogs neutered and in NSW, under justice O'Keefe, the ICAC has been publicly slapped for doing its work, and subsequently seen to be compromised. Not one but several senior ALP identities have been exposed as pedophiles, either forced to serve custodial sentences or known to have suicided.
I'd go into more .. but I have to go to work, where I am paid below the minimum wage and have no conditions or job security for working full time hours, many thanks to ALP industrial relations policy. - ed
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Putting American CIA Agents in Danger
By Bill O'Reilly
You'll remember the Valerie Plame situation, where the former CIA operative was publicly named in a weapons of mass destruction controversy. Led by NBC News and The New York Times, the left-wing media went nuts, and ultimately Scooter Libby, a top adviser to Vice President Cheney, was convicted of a crime.
Now we have a situation that is far worse, and the left-wing media is totally silent.
A group calling itself the John Adams Project, affiliated with the ACLU, is secretly photographing CIA agents and showing the pictures to suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, among others. Activist lawyers Joshua Dratel, Edward MacMahon and Nina Ginsberg are just three members of the Adams group who are putting CIA agents in grave danger. "Factor" producer Dan Bank caught up with Ms. Ginsberg:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DAN BANK, "FACTOR" PRODUCER: Hi, Ms. Ginsberg? Dan Bank with FOX News Channel with "The O'Reilly Factor." I have some questions about the John Adams Project. You know, you're putting CIA agents' lives in danger.
NINA GINSBERG, JOHN ADAMS PROJECT: You need to talk to the people at the John Adams Project. That's not at all true.
BANK:You're…
GINSBERG: CIA agents put a lot of people in danger. They put this country in danger. They put American soldiers overseas in danger.
BANK: You're showing pictures of CIA agents to terrorists, Al Qaeda terrorists. That's just despicable.
GINSBERG: That's not true.
BANK: What are you doing then? What is the John Adams Project?
GINSBERG: And why are you following me around into a drugstore?
BANK: Ma'am, you've hired researchers to follow CIA agents around all over the place and then show them to Al Qaeda terrorists, the same people who organized September 11th.
GINSBERG: What they did was try and find out who the names and the identities of the people who tortured, illegally tortured people because the government won't turn over that information, and people in this country have a right to defend themselves. Sir, get out of my way.
BANK: Ma'am, hold on one second.
GINSBERG: Sir, get out of my way.
BANK: Because there are federal laws prohibiting sharing classified information like that.
GINSBERG: It's not classified. If there's a person walking in the street who has a picture taken of himself, that is not classified information.
BANK: So Valerie Plame…
GINSBERG: And there are laws against public — people putting their microphones in people's faces. Valerie Plame's identity was disclosed by the vice president of this country. The people who took pictures found the information in public source information and tried to find out who the torturers were in this country.
BANK: Torturers or the people trying to keep us safe? Some people…
GINSBEG: Sir, you are making me feel threatened. Get out of my face.
BANK: Some people may wonder whose side you are on.
GINSBERG: Get out of my face.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
"The Factor" is asking Attorney General Holder to step up the investigation of the John Adams Project, and we are asking President Obama to publicly condemn their campaign.
Forget about the elite media investigating this. It is far too corrupt to do that.
We do not expect the Obama administration to comment at all because they have been pandering to the far left. But if the president continues to allow attacks on the CIA, it will come back to hurt him, the same way the saga of Van Jones has hurt him.
Over the Labor Day weekend, Jones was forced to resign as a White House employee overseeing so-called "green jobs," employment tied to improving the environment. Jones is a radical guy who signed a petition questioning whether the government knew about the 9/11 attacks beforehand. How he could wind up working for the Obama White House is simply astounding.
Whether it is fair or not, President Obama is now viewed by some as sympathetic to the radical left. To get rid of that perception, he should condemn the John Adams Project immediately. We will update this story on Thursday.
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SLEEPY TIMES
Tim Blair
The New York Times explains why it missed the Van Jones Commie Truther story:
One reason was that our Washington bureau was somewhat short-staffed during the height of the pre-Labor Day vacation period.
The bureau evidently remained short-staffed for some considerable period.
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SHOULD’VE SPENT MORE ON SECURITY
Tim Blair
The Prime Minister’s $170,000 website has been hacked.
UPDATE. Liberal Andrew Laming on the government’s net nannyism:
With access to leading technology, families are perfectly capable of protecting their children online without having to sacrifice their freedoms to a paternalistic Labor Government hardwired to believe that they know best and can do it better.
Not to condone the above-mentioned hacking, but it doesn’t exactly leave the government looking like the nation’s leading authority on internet security, does it?
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LANDS OF HOPE
Tim Blair
Former British PM Tony Blair on western freedom:
It’s a great test of a country. Are people trying to get into it or out of it?
Good call.
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TWO GOOD MEN
Tim Blair
Peter Davies might be the finest mayor on earth. Also, Alfonzo Rachel should be made a czar. Not in any particular field; just a general czar of some type.
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