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Karl Rove is reportedly one of the key architects overseeing the “Bush legacy project,” predicting that the President will be remembered as a “far-sighted leader.” In a new interview with Cox News, Rove rails against all the people in America who never “accepted the legitimacy […]
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December 6, 2008
Obama speechwriter Favreau learns the perils of Facebook
Posted: 04:40 PM ET
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This photo of Favreau and Clinton (cut-out) appeared on Facebook Friday.
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(CNN) — Jon Favreau, future White House director of speechwriting, has so far been at a loss for words over Facebook pictures of him at a recent party.
Pictures of Favreau, 27, at a […]
Identify the movie, the scene and the questioner of each of the following examples. 30 points.
1. Well, what the HELL is a jimp?!
2. What’s a mook?
3. What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you?
4. What’s a fugazy?
5. What’s Shabbos?
6. What are these electrolytes?
7. What a dump?
8. What’s a yute?
9. What’s a liger?
10. […]
NASA’s search for Mars life delayed
Will Dunham, Reuters
Published: Friday, December 05, 2008
N ASA said Thursday that it will postpone by two years the planned launch of a major mission to study whether Mars was ever capable of harbouring life, citing development and testing delays.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin said the Mars Science Laboratory mission must be […]
After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»
The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image […]
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Here is George Will on ABC’s THIS WEEK…
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“All will be forgiven if things turn out well. And it’s just possible, Donna, that the economy is not going down the drain. 94, 95 percent of all mortgages in this country are being paid off on time. Ninety-four percent of those who want to work are working. […]
Recession started in December 2007: panel
By Emily Kaiser
Reuters
Monday, December 1, 2008; 4:28 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy slipped into recession in December 2007, the nation’s business cycle arbiter declared on Monday, and the downturn could be the worst since World War Two.
The National Bureau of Economic Research said its business cycle dating committee members […]
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30-mile debris pile becomes symbol of FEMA delays (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer Michael Graczyk,
Associated Press Writer – Mon Dec 1, 3:55 pm ET
Workers watch as a back hoe drop a scoop of hurricane debris, Tuesday, Nov. 25, AP – Workers watch as a back hoe drop a scoop of hurricane debris, […]
AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash
By MATT APUZZO – 14 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, […]
Note to CNN: There is no Assistant Secretary of State for African American Affairs.
A CNN chyron from this morning’s press conference:
Susan Rice, the Obama administration’s new U.N. Ambassador, was not the “Assistant Secretary of State for African American Affairs.” There is no such position at the State Department. From 1997-2001, Susan Rice was U.S. Assistant […]