Cave Near Chicago Full of Ancient Wonders
Corey Binns
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Fri May 18, 6:30 PM ET
North America’s oldest conifer tree and some ancient scorpion parts are among the fossil treasures found in a newly discovered cave in Illinois.
The new discovery also unearthed fossils of plants that may be new to science and revealed evidence of […]
The Sunday Times
May 20, 2007
Decline and fall of the neocons
Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington
Sarah Baxter
As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president. Allies […]
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Gore Blasts Bush in ‘The Assault on Reason’
Former Vice President’s Book a Searing Assault on the Bush Administration
By JAKE TAPPER
May 21, 2007 —
When former Vice President Al Gore hosted “Saturday Night Live” in December 2002 he appeared in a skit that compared his vice presidential selection process from two years before to the dating reality […]
The reactionary radio yahoos were wailing against French products because the Gauls realized early that W and his henchmen were morons. Meanwhile, the Red Chinese have been shipping any number of grotesquely tainted foodstuffs into the country. The next time Krusty the Klown says “flied lice,” he may not be joking.
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Richard Guthrie, 92, was tricked into giving banking data to telephone callers, who then stole money from his account, investigators say.
(Photograph) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
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Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist
By CHARLES DUHIGG
The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone […]
why did we ever abandon it? Newt will put us back on the correct path to paradise.
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Gingrich Assails ‘Radical Secularism’
In Speech, Ex-Speaker Praises Falwell, Offers No Hints About His Political Plans
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 20, 2007; A04
LYNCHBURG, Va., May 19 — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried a “growing culture […]
the bear idea was soon abandoned because the ursine tutors refused to allow the astronauts to eat, drink and leave their children at home while in the various spacecraft.
Astronauts Get a Tip from Hibernating Bears
Jeanna Bryner
Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Fri May 18, 6:30 PM ET
WASHINGTON—Stretch. Yawn. Ahhh. Black bears are just waking up from their winter […]
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Gun Control Debate Heats Up in Virginia
Families of Va. Tech Victims Stand Outside Rally
May 19, 2007
As Sean McQuade, the final victim of the Virginia Tech massacre to be released from the hospital, wakes up in his own bed, the national struggle over gun control continued this week as two Virginia gun shop owners decided […]
May 18, 2007
Wolfowitz Resigns From World Bank
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 17 — Paul D. Wolfowitz, ending a furor over favoritism that blew up into a global fight over American leadership, announced his resignation as president of the World Bank Thursday evening after the bank’s board accepted his claim that his mistakes […]
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Controversial CEO to Leave Smithsonian Business Ventures
By James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 17, 2007; Page A01
Gary M. Beer, the founding chief executive of the Smithsonian’s business unit and architect of a controversial deal with Showtime Networks Inc., has announced plans to leave amid internal and congressional inquiries into his management, […]
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Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner. Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner.Photo Credit: By Susan Walsh — Associated Press
Ashcroft and the Night Visitors
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; Page A02
As if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn’t have enough trouble, now comes word that, before coming to the Justice Department, Gonzales preyed […]
Whoever resigns takes the card and the blame.
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Gonzales: Deputy was pointman on firings
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he relied on his resigning deputy more than any other aide to decide which U.S. attorneys should be fired last year.
His comments came a less than […]
Tony may have said “No comment.”
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Snow: Ashcroft Wasn’t That Ill, It Wasn’t Like ‘His Brain Didn’t Work’
In March 2004, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-chief of staff Andrew Card attempted to go around acting Attorney General James Comey and get John Ashcroft, who was debilitated with pancreatitis, to sign off on an extension […]
Two New York radio hosts fired for Asian slur
Mon May 14, 11:52 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - The CBS network has fired two “shock jocks” over an on-air slur against Asians, US media reported Monday, weeks after another radio host was sacked for making a racist remark.
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Yep! It is!
Photo by: Monty Brinton / CBS
Survivor to […]
Angry Wolfowitz in four-letter tirade
Richard Adams in Washington
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night.
Under fire for the lavish package given to Shaha […]
May 14, 2007
Bank Files May Undercut Wolfowitz, Critics Say
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 13 — Documents circulating at the World Bank suggest that Paul D. Wolfowitz, the bank president, understood that his role in ordering a pay increase and promotion for his companion in 2005 might be seen as a conflict of interest […]
The 2007 New York Auto Show
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Voters in Dallas suburb OK ban on renting to illegals
May 13, 2007
BY ANABELLE GARAY
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas — Voters in this Dallas suburb Saturday overwhelmingly approved a measure banning landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants.
More than 90 local governments nationwide have proposed similar measures, but Farmers Branch was the first to put the issue to […]
Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals
By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 14, 2007; A04
Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions of election- […]
A fake ‘come to Jesus’ meeting with Bush
May 10, 2007 - 8:39am.
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The meeting was just a staged ‘cover their ass’ event
By DOUG THOMPSON
According to a carefully-orchestrated campaign of planted news leaks by the Representatives who attended the meeting, a group of 11 “moderate” Republicans confronted President George W. Bush in a “come to […]
Photo Credit: By Victor Caivano — Associated Press Photo via Washington Post
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In Private Sector, Giuliani Parlayed Fame Into Wealth
Candidate’s Firm Has Taken On Controversial Executives, Clients
By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, May 13, 2007; A01
On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made […]
but I wonder if this a little of the “pot/kettle” analogy. Has not the so-called “opiate of the masses” caused more deaths during the reign of humans than all the meth, smack and coke in the world?
Pope hears drug addicts’ tales, scolds traffickers
By Terry Wade and Philip Pullella Sat May 12, 12:39 PM ET
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Bush aides berate GOP members
By Jonathan E. Kaplan
May 11, 2007
Top Bush administration officials lashed out at a pair of House Republicans at the White House yesterday after details about a contentious meeting between President Bush and GOP legislators were leaked to the media earlier this week.
The confrontations are the latest indications of an intensifying rift […]
Thankfully, there are those who want to tell the truth.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
By Murray Waas, National Journal
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove […]