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Associated Press
Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill a few weeks later, she was floored. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Beam said. “I was like, ‘What are they thinking?’”
Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland residents for equipment […]
John Edwards to quit presidential race
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago
DENVER - Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies, The Associated Press has learned.
1790–1862
10th President of the United States
In office
April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
Vice President(s) none
Preceded by William Henry Harrison
Succeeded by James K. Polk
Children
By Letitia Christian Tyler
Mary Tyler (1815-48); Robert Tyler (1816-77); John Tyler (1819-96); Letitia Tyler (1821-1907); Elizabeth Tyler (1823-50); Anne Contesse […]
Capitol Hill Blue
The Clinton cabal
January 30, 2008 - 7:16am
The Clintons are a threat to Democrats and the country
By DOUG THOMPSON
Hillary Rodham Clinton is in trouble. Her husband is out of control, Obama is gaining momentum and her once-inevitable run for the White House is stuck in a sea of political mud.
So Hillary wants to do […]
Louisiana takes that statement to its logical conclusion, but it’s not the only state.
This story is followed by my post of October 2, 2006
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
January 29, 2008
Sidebar
Looking Anew at Campaign Cash and Elected Judges
By ADAM LIPTAK
Vernon Valentine Palmer, a law professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, could not understand how justices of […]
He also played Howard Cossell and Zoolander’s Pop.
When we will he start modeling
Everlast boxing robes?
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Gossip
January 20, 2008
Jon Voight is the midnight cowboy on Rudy Giuliani’s campaign caravan through Florida. The Oscar winner hailed Giuliani for cleaning up New York, The News’ David Saltonstall reports. “The miracle happened,” Voight told a […]
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Editor’s Note
The negative responses by the animals are totally in keeping with scientists’ past experiences. The marine life of Antarctica hates the cold weather,
but they cannot afford to move to a more pleasant climate.
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On the whole, I would have to say that is preferable to having Red Savina habeneros rubbed in one’s eyes along with nightly injections of battery acid.
Strange Creature Immune to Pain
Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.comMon Jan 28, 8:31 PM ET
As vulnerable as naked mole rats seem, researchers now find the hairless, bucktoothed rodents are invulnerable […]
STUDENT LIFE
St. Louis University
Students mobilize to counter Gonzales’ visit
Kat Zhao
Issue date: 1/28/08
Student Union (SU) approved the College Republicans’ proposal last semester for Gonzalez to speak, in an effort to draw more well-known though perhaps more controversial speakers to the University’s lectern.
Rhoads and Guthorn agree that while they enjoy the polarization and politicization on campus, they […]
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Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD
From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]
Reuters
Clinton seeks to smooth relations with Obama
Fri Jan 25, 8:56 AM ET
Former President Bill Clinton said he might have gone too far in attacking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said on Friday, adding that both Democratic presidential campaigns should focus on issues.
“He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away,” Hillary […]
OPINION
From the Los Angeles Times
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Is the right right on the Clintons?
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Hillary’s campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.
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Jonathan Chait
January 26, 2008
Something strange happened the other day. All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing: They’ve suddenly developed […]
New York Times
January 26, 2008
Memo Details Objections to Command Center Site
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
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The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in […]
Opinion
THE NATION
Reid Clears Hurdle for Bush-Cheney Spying BillThe Nation Thu Jan 24, 3:24 PM ETThe Nation — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cleared a key hurdle for the FISA Amendments Act on Thursday, advancing President Bush’s preferred version of the spying bill, a move opposed by the majority of Reid’s Democratic colleagues. The vote, 60-34, […]
NBC confronts Hillary with ’slum lord’ photo
01/25/2008 @ 7:49 am
Filed by Michael Roston and David Edwards
RAW STORY
On Friday morning’s episode of the Today Show on NBC, host Matt Lauer discussed Monday night’s testy debate between presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL). In particular, he focused on her allegation that Obama had […]
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is lashing out at what he calls Western “intellectual arrogance” toward his country, angrily dismissing claims that rising unpopularity has undermined his authority. He also dismisses allegations that he cannot be trusted to hold free and fair elections as “totally absurd.”
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“You see?! You see?! Brains we got.
Arms and money we need.
You […]
So what?!
Stalin had not thought Hitler to have been crazy enough to open
a second front by invading the Soviet Union in 1941.
Life would be a lot more difficult if one had always to consider another party’s acting in an irrationally self-destructive manner.
Prosecutor Prepares Statement On Sex Text, Perjury Scandal
AP
35 minutes ago
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could face charges of perjury after new revelations that he lied under oath when he testified last summer that he did not have an extramarital affair.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is planning a news conference at 10 a.m. Friday to make an […]
False Pretenses
The Center for Public Integrity-
Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
January 23, 2008
Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice […]
No Questions On Global Warming Asked At CNN’s Coal Industry-Sponsored Presidential Debates
In Democratic presidential debate last night, CNN once again failed to ask any questions about global warming(promo is also here).Perhaps not surprisingly, last night’s debate was sponsored by the coal front group Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC).
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Fred Thompson quits presidential race
Associated Press
January 22, 2008 2:28 pm
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson quit the Republican presidential race on Tuesday, after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.
“Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from […]