Politico
April 29, 2008
Lurita Doan finally forced out at GSA
Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according to an e-mail she sent out this evening.
Doan was appointed in late May, 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as GSA Administrator. With 12,000 empioyees and a $20 billion annual […]
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home”
April 28, 2008 09:16 PM
When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.
Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq […]
Huffington Post
Bob Cesca
Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?
Posted April 29, 2008 | 03:29 PM (EST)
If the corporate media had been as diligent about watchdogging President Bush as they have been about watchdogging Reverend Wright, it’s very likely we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq.
If the corporate media had spent as much time exposing the obvious flaws […]
Candidates deserve the heat which comes from bringing religion into the race.
Maybe, they’ll be more circumspect next time.
Yeah, right…Dave!
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The Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club event Monday, which was organized by Reynolds. Somodevilla/Getty
Errol Louis
New York Daily News
Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama […]
Several reasons make this move sensible and dangerous.
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In 1962, Topps Bubble Gum cards introduced MARS ATTACKS.
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These warrior creatures wanted to rule Earth.
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Humans received no mercy during the conquest.
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In 1996, Tim Burton brought the Topps concept to the silver screen in
MARS ATTACKS.
Without protective suits and helmets, the Martians were only able to […]
If the vandalism bothers them, they should change careers.
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Owners trash, strip their foreclosed homes
Fixtures, cabinets, tubs, sinks, even stairways face wrath of dispossessed
By Jerry Kronenberg
Boston Herald
Monday, April 28, 2008 -Jack O’Leary has seen foreclosed homes where ex-owners put paint on the carpets, anti-bank graffiti on the walls or took everything but the kitchen sink - […]
West Virginia University dean resigns in degree scandal
By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The dean of West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics is resigning in the wake of the scandal over a master’s degree awarded to the governor’s daughter, the school announced Monday.
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R. Stephen Sears is […]
NY cardinal criticizes Giuliani for taking Communion
41 minutes ago
NEW YORK - New York Cardinal Edward Egan says Rudy Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion during the pope’s visit because he supports abortion rights.
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Egan says he had “an understanding” with the former presidential candidate and New York mayor that he is not to receive the […]
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April 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Bowling 1, Health Care 0
By ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Chapel Hill, N.C.
FOR the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?
Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money spent was covered. But in Pennsylvania, as in the rest […]
Los Angeles Times
McCain backer John Hagee tempers Hurricane Katrina comments
Pastor John Hagee has revised his view of God’s wrath, and chances are John McCain couldn’t be happier.
Without fanfare, in an e-mail sent the latter part of Friday, Hagee backed off his assertion that Televanglist John Hagee has endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona […]
Afghan president safe after fleeing gunfire at Kabul event
By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president on Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover.
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(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Images: (Main) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (Samsung robot vacuum) technovelgy.com
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CNN Sued For $1.3 Billion Over Cafferty Remarks
Huffington Post via Reuters | April 25, 2008 08:36 AM
Jack Cafferty set off a firestorm in China after his remarks (seen here) that the the nation is full of “goons and thugs” and that their exports are “junk.” The Chinese government demanded that CNN […]
raq’s Sadr tells fighters to observe truce
By Wisam Mohammed 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled back from confrontation with the government on Friday, asking his followers to continue to observe a shaky ceasefire and not to battle government troops.
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Sadr, whose call for calm was read out in a […]
Only she could possibly lose to this quick to rage, economically-challenged, conservative, flip-flopping Iran-baiter.
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McCain picks failing Ohio factory to laud free trade
By Matt Stearns | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Standing before a nearly shuttered factory pocked with broken windows in a city devastated by the erosion of its industrial […]
While I was somewhat distressed by this story emailed by Vincenzo Kochak, I must commend him for including an excerpt from the chapter on her literary influences.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The multi-hyphenate teen (15-year-old) star has signed a book deal to tell the story of her […]
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Image: (Lou, Nancy & Jimbo) cnn.com; (Bill) cnn.com via thingkprogress.org (Glenn) cnn.com via newsbusters.org;
118 years after
Jacob Riis’ HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
&
42 years after
Michael Harrington’s THE OTHER AMERICA.
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This is the true obscenity of unrestrained greed
with its consorts of arrogance and stupidity.
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ABC NEWS
April 22, 2008
Life Expectancy Slips in Poor Parts of America
New Study Shows Drop in Life Expectancy in Deep South, Parts of Midwest, Texas […]
The Holy Father stayed at the East 72nd street residence of
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the papal nuncio to the United Nations.
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Archbishop Migliore snarled to the assembled press,
“I won’t make that mistake again!”
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While he had heard rumors about the pope’s destructive tendencies,
Archbishop Migliore was at a loss when confronted by
a two-year old hyena fresh […]
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AT&T to cut about 4,600 jobs, sees $374 million 1Q charge
Fri Apr 18, 10:58 AM ET
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. on Friday said it plans to cut about 4,600 jobs, or 1.5 percent of its work force, to shift resources to growing parts of its business.
The nation’s largest telecommunications provider said most of the layoffs […]
April 20, 2008
New York Times
Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!
By FRANK RICH
Op-Ed Columnist
(Excerpts)
…When a Washington doyenne like Mary Matalin, freighted with jewelry, starts railing about elitists on “Meet the Press,” as she did last Sunday, it’s pure farce. It’s typical of the syndrome that the man who plays a raging populist on CNN, Lou Dobbs, […]
Nepal authorizes use of deadly force to stop protests of Olympic torch on Everest
The Associated Press Published: April 20, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal: Nepalese soldiers and police guarding the slopes of Mount Everest are authorized to shoot to stop any protests during China’s Olympic torch run to the summit, an official said Sunday.
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Chinese climbers plan to take […]
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This is an artist’s conception of Blowhard Newt
in four years of conservative, hypocritical aging.
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Image: (Actual New as he now appears) as7.dsi.go.com via abcnewstore.go.com
The story is here.
Anti-US cleric al-Sadr threatens new uprising in Iraq
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 20, 3:20 AM ET
BAGHDAD - Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a “final warning” to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare “open war until liberation.”
A full-blown uprising by al-Sadr, who […]
Oregon cop battles 12-foot python to save pet store owner
Sat Apr 19, 3:00 PM ET
AP
A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.
Teresa Rossiter had reached into a cage Thursday to show the […]
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