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Two Democratic Senators Say
HUD Secretary Should Resign
By DAMIAN PALETTA
March 21, 2008 2:21 p.m.
WASHINGTON – Two top Democrats on Friday called for the resignation of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, citing questions about his leadership and his agency’s operations during the national housing crisis.
Mr. Jackson, through a spokeswoman, said he planned to remain […]
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Tibetan protesters burn motorcycles, cycles and goods from shops belonging to Chinese residents as they give vent to their frustration and anger against Chinese rule in Lhasa, China, Friday March 14, 2008.(AP Photo/Jonathan Brady )
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My correspondent in Katmandu, Nepal sent this communique.
“I always felt that among their incredible historical record and national skills, the Chinese […]
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In my estimation, Cindy McCain is the only reason to vote for him.
She would certainly bring an attractive gravitas to the White House.
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By Steve Holland […]
5.1 million displaced Iraqis is the equivalent of 55.7 million displaced Americans. Nevertheless, Dick ‘n W are only doing what they do best.
Metropolitan Statistical Areas of the United States of America
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Yahoo ‘In the News’
As of 8:20 a.m. EDT
• Dalai Lama says he will step down if violence in Tibet worsens
• Fed poised to cuts rates to combat weak economy, credit crisis
• Explosion near U.S. embassy in Yemen kills guard
• Obama seeks to quell controversy over pastor’s rhetoric
• N.Y. governor and wife admit they had affairs […]
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The New York Times
March 17, 2008
Bush, Praising Fed’s Intervention, Faces Criticism
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — As President Bush welcomed the Federal Reserve’s sweeping intervention in the financial markets, his administration faced accusations Monday that it supported the bailout of a prestigious investment bank while […]
The New York Times
March 17, 2008
JP Morgan Pays $2 a Share for Bear Stearns
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
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In a shocking deal reached on Sunday to save Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a mere $2 a share to buy all of Bear — less than one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday.As part of the […]
Friday, Mar. 14, 2008
Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
By Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board […]
Lack of sleep may affect obesity, memory and sex drive
CBS 60 Minutes
Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Science of Sleep
Tired of being tired? You’re not alone. On average, Americans say they get less than seven hours of sleep each night. Still, we spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep, so it’s not surprising that a great many […]
Capitol Hill Blue
Bush’s legacy: An America in decline
March 17, 2008 - 5:55am
President Bush’s unilateral decision to invade Iraq five years ago has not only cost America power, influence and prestige but has also plunged the nation into economic chaos and left America with lagging morale and hope for the future.
That’s the conclusion of an increasing […]
Think Progress
March 16, 2008
One Year Later, Market Where McCain Strolled ‘Freely’ Is Controlled By Sadr,
Too Unsafe For Americans To Visit
On April 1, 2007, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) strolled through the open-air Shorja market in Baghdad in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. In […]
Because ‘brackish’ is the national color of the Kosovodians?*
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off the Emerald Isle.
*W-Speak for Kosovars.
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Two unemployed transvestites secure a WPA grant to tour the Depression Era United States as hoofers for New England shoe-making factories. During their journey, they experience the hardships and joys of self-discovery after they hook up with a traveling band of sharecroppers who write lyrics for the Oklahoma Department of Tourism public relations’ office.
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So it wasn’t some fraternity hazing ritual?
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They could have saved their shovels and rock brushes.
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A wealthy San Francisco psychiatrist is haunted by his past life of poverty which had forced him to work as a high wire rigger for the Moravian Circus Duplicitous. A patient who arrives in his North Beach office one day causes him to agonize on the memories this stranger, an out-of-work clown make-up […]
Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer 43 minutes ago
DAKAR, Senegal - The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.
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Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world’s Muslim nations are considering taking legal […]
heck, Hill should be working for
Parker Brothers or Milton Bradley–
not wasting our time and hers by running for President.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Greg Craig
National Journal’s Linda Douglass sat down with Greg Craig for the March 14 edition of “National Journal On Air.” This is a transcript of their conversation.
Q: I want […]
Clinton’s foreign experience is more limited than she says
By William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton claims that her experience in dealing with foreign affairs qualifies her to handle a crisis call at 3 a.m. and be commander in chief.Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign accuses Clinton of exaggerating […]
That still doesn’t explain the high prices, but I shall lay off the tear-stained marble. It seems Eliot Spitzer–like millions of men and women who know nothing of Sophocles–wanted some ’strange.’ The difference between Eliot of Fifth Avenue and Vic of Troy, NY is that the former could drop $4,300 for it.
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I don’t deny that many dogs like to run, but they also like to smell things which prevents them from having the time
to run 1,100 miles on ice and snow.
If sled dogs could speak, I am almost certain they would offer,
“Let us mush for awhile and you pull.”
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(AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Lance Mackey wins 2nd […]
Slaughterhouse exec defends himself
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago
The head of the Southern California slaughterhouse at the center of the largest beef recall in U.S. history said Wednesday no unsafe beef was processed at his plant but that his company is ruined despite no evidence of contamination.
Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. President Steve Mendell […]
McCain advisers lobbied for Airbus
March 11, 2008 - 5:57am
By JIM KUHNHENN and MATTHEW DALY
Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more […]
“I hate people like that,” the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.
Gareth Porter, Asia Times, September 14, 2007
March 11, 2008
Top U.S. Commander in Mideast to Retire Early
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON — Adm. William J. […]
Obama fury over Clinton backer Ferraro’s race remark
Tue Mar 11, 1:07 PM ET
Barack Obama’s White House campaign lashed out in fury Tuesday after a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter attributed his stunning march through US politics to his race.
Obama aide Susan Rice called for Clinton to fire Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman yet to run on […]
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The Contestants…
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Tuesday, March 4, 2008. (AP)
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It looks like Hillary, but Barack seems to have better balance.
and their method will save oil by substituting
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AP water probe prompts Senate hearings
By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
March 10, 2008
Two veteran U.S. senators said Monday they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of […]