Sure, the title is oxymoronic, but it's just a matter of time before MINI unveils its beefed-up 'ute. CAR put its crack team of 3D modeling wizards on the job to show what a mud-plugging MINI could look like, and surprising, it's not all that bad.

You could chalk this up to overzealous Obama partisans, except that the Obama campaign put out an inaccurate and sloppy hit piece on Krugman, a clear signal that this guy is fair game. So of course, now liberal villagers are pretending that there is some personal beef between Krugman and Obama, that Krugman simply 'hates' Obama and that's why ..

We should all ask ourselves this question. Do we really want to continue to eat animals, or will their cloned body parts satisfy us? While looking an animal in the eye, I wonder how many of us could really do what is necessary to provide that meat.

If campaign truth in labeling laws were in effect, the "Straight Talk Express" of John McCain would be renamed the "Left Wing Express". McCain has compromised so many conservative Republican party principles that one could easily imagine a Ted Kennedy or Russ Feingold beefing up McCain's campaign coffers. He is the liberals best friend.

Poland is voicing strong reservations about the US plans, demanding security guarantees and beefed up air defence hardware from Washington, worried that the deployment of interceptor missile silos on Polish territory could jeopardise rather than enhance Polish security.