April 03, 2008
WSJ may endorse in ‘08; first time since Hoover!
When Rupert Murdoch spoke yesterday at Georgetown, he indicated that a long-standing Wall Street Journal tradition could be changed in 2008: The paper might endorse a presidential candidate.
The Journal has refrained from endorsing a presidential candidate for more than seven decades.
In a July 2007 editorial […]
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Reuters
NY duck gets “order of protection” after attack
Fri Apr 4, 2008 5:39pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A pet duck named Circles, shot and wounded by a neighbor with a pellet gun, has received an order of protection to keep it safe, the first duck in New York state’s Suffolk County to benefit from such an […]
April 5, 2008
Ohio Hospital Contests a Story Clinton Tells
The New York Times
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by […]
The Trail
THE WASHINGTON POST
Perry Bacon, Jr.
Saturday, April 5, 2008; A04
PENN PUSHED TRADE DEAL
Clinton Aide Admits ‘Error in Judgment’
Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s top political strategist, apologized yesterday for meeting with Colombian officials to advocate for a trade agreement that Clinton opposes.
“The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated, and I am sorry […]
CNN
April 3, 2008
A fishy mystery
1:33 (tape)
A bizarre looking, fanged fish found in a Brigham City, Utah, pond has aquatics biologists stumped.
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In other news…
Keith Richard by Keiran Doherty, Reuters in canada.com
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THROW THEM DOWN THAT HOLE!!
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An artist’s impression of the lowest-mass known black hole belonging to a binary system named XTE J1650-500. The black hole has about 3.8 times the mass of our sun, and is orbited by a companion star.
(NASA/Reuters)
Mini-black hole is smallest ever but still strong
Tue Apr 1, 3:44 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA […]
The fraud named Hillary Rodham Clinton
April 2, 2008 - 7:02am
By DOUG THOMPSON
Hillary Clinton is a fraud, a liar, a cheat and a disgrace to the Senate, her party and the United States of America.
There’s no other way to put it. The woman who would be President inflated her resume, lied outright about being “under fire” […]
Man sentenced over wombat rape claim
Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:13pm AEDT
Updated Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:22pm AEDT
A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking “Australian”.
Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on […]
A-Rod makes more than Marlins roster
By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer 12 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez makes more this year than his hometown Florida Marlins. Boosted by his new deal with the New York Yankees, A-Rod tops the major league baseball salary list at $28 million, according to a study of contract terms […]
Jack sends a portion of Dan Froomkin’s Washington Post’s blog…
Also in October, Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy Newspapers called attention to Bush’s first meeting with Putin in June 2001, when Bush declared that he’d looked in the Russian leader’s eyes, found him “trustworthy” and “was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Landay wrote: “Bush […]
Clinton likens herself to ‘Rocky’
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA - Perhaps the analogy was inevitable: Hillary Rodham Clinton as Rocky Balboa, the scrappy underdog boxer from Philadelphia memorably depicted in the 1976 Oscar-winning film. Even if Rocky did lose his first big fight.
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Images: (Mr. T as Clubber Lang; Rocky […]
April 1, 2008
Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96
By RICHARD SEVERO
Jules Dassin, an American director, screenwriter and actor who found success making movies in Europe after he was blacklisted in the United States because of his earlier ties to the Communist Party, died Monday in Athens, where he had lived since the 1970s. He […]
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Huffington Post displayed the following about
Keith Olbermann’s justified outrage with Wal-Mart:
“Women’s Wear Daily/Memo Pad’s Stephanie D. Smith reports today that Wal-Mart’s corporate communications director, Daphne Moore, has responded with a statement:”This is a very sad case and we understand that people will naturally have an emotional and sympathetic reaction. While the Shank case involves a […]