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WOW!!! (Feb 01 2008 04:12 GMT) |
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- USATODAY.com - In their craving for interest-rate cuts, the financial markets resemble Audrey II, the insatiable carnivorous plant that clamored “Feed Me!” in the cult musical Little Shop of Horrors. |
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- USATODAY.com - John Edwards is articulate, attractive, smart and personally engaging. What’s more, his message of helping the poor and working Americans seemed both heartfelt and extraordinarily well-timed as the economy is showing signs of distress. |
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- USATODAY.com - Close analysis of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s failed campaign leads to the following conclusion: The best way to run for president of the United States is to ? run for president of the United States. |
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- The Christian Science Monitor - Thirty-three weeks pregnant with twins, yet determined to lead her talented University of Maryland women’s basketball team into the national championships, coach Brenda Frese ? known for energetically pacing the sideline ? found a novel way to relieve her aching lower back during a home game this month: She had [... |
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- The Christian Science Monitor - The world saw a ray of light this week that may help Kenya avoid a violent abyss. Mediator Kofi Annan got the two political rivals in this tragedy to sign onto negotiations. But much more is needed to halt ethnic cleansing in this latest African trouble spot. |
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- HuffingtonPost.com - Driving around Fort Riley with a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker on my car was not the most popular or recommended thing to do in the election year of 2004. Most soldiers on the base were still very pro-Bush and supportive of the war in Iraq. Americans had still not come down off [...] |
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- The Nation - The Nation — Things were going swimmingly for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at tonight’s Democratic debate in California until the subject of Iraq came up midway through. |
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- The Nation - The Nation — After the debacle in New Hampshire, I’m reticent about ever posting about polls again. With that disclaimer, check out Gallup’s latest tracking poll. |
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- RealClearPolitics.com - A wave of late-breaking retirement announcements have left beleaguered House Republicans swamped in recent days as five members have told House leaders they will not seek re-election this Fall. The announcements bring to 27 the number of open seats Republicans will have to defend throughout the year, and some believe the end is [...] |
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- RealClearPolitics.com - Two critical moments of the 2004 campaign were the party’s nominating conventions and the momentum - or lack of momentum - they generated for their respective candidates. |
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- The Weekly Standard - America is in the midst of an all-important electoral campaign. But, talking to Europeans, I’ve discovered that there is puzzlement and misinformation on your continent about what’s happening on ours. Europeans feel an understandable confusion when faced with a political system consisting of two houses of Congress and a White House, [... |
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- William F. Buckley - President Bush didn’t give Congress, in his State of the Union address, quite what was expected, especially in the area of taxation. Several high critics of Bush, most of them running for president, spoke vociferously about the need to cut the privileges that flow to the rich through the tax laws. [... |
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- Maggie Gallagher - He strode to the stage with all his loose, geeky charisma intact, looking like a cross between a rock star and an accountant. |
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- The Weekly Standard - West Palm BeachJohn McCain spoke through gritted teeth. “I respect Rush Limbaugh,” he said, days after America’s most influential talk radio host proclaimed that his nomination would ruin the Republican party. |
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- AP - 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,” |
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- AP - A civilian State Police employee was accused of sneaking into a church to look at pornography on a nun’s computer. Police arrested Thomas G. Findler Wednesday and charged him with burglary and theft. |
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- AP - Longtime friends Chase Torgerson and Cody Charpentier were driving along a northwestern Minnesota highway near Wilton when they saw a car fly through the air and crash into a median. |
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- AP - What are the odds? Leo Fiyalko, 92, a legally blind golfer with macular degeneration, scored a hole-in-one at a Clearwater country club. |
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- AP - A woman who told police she had been stunned with a “cattle prod” by a man impersonating a police officer made up the incident, officials said Thursday. |
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- Reuters - Retired hospital porter Steve Smith, who is suffering from a potentially fatal heart defect, won almost 19 million pounds ($38 million) on Britain’s National Lottery – but said he would give it all up if he could spend a few more years living with his wife Ida. |
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- Reuters - Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least $500,000 a year or have a minimum of $4 million in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement. |
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- Reuters - With beers in hand, hundreds of former patrons Tuesday protested the closing of Mexico’s oldest cantina, where Cuban President Fidel Castro, revolutionary Che Guevara and Mexican leaders all once drank. |
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- Reuters - Rather than file tax returns on an estimated $38 million in income, actor Wesley Snipes flooded the U.S. tax agency with correspondence that his lawyer admitted on Tuesday was sometimes “kooky, crazy and loony.” |
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- Reuters - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm. |
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- Reuters - Tourists coming to Britain often rave about drinking in traditional English pubs. Now they’ve got another type to choose from — the traditional Polish pub. |
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- Reuters - “Darke County Dave,” a local hog, will opine — or oswine — on America’ |
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- Reuters - German authorities were able to pin a burglary committed in April on a suspected serial thief after he left a half-eaten slice of salami carrying a sliver of his DNA at a crime scene, police said on Thursday. |
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- Reuters - The Dutch interior minister wants police officials to stop using soft drugs when they are off-duty as it tarnishes the image of the force. |
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- AP - German police have charged a robbery suspect after matching his DNA to that found on a piece of salami spat out at a crime scene. |
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- Reuters - A team of experts has unearthed an 800-year-old cellar under a central Berlin car park which they say dates the city back to the 12th century, earlier than previously thought. |
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- AP - Cody Young parked his bike in the wrong place at the Goodwill store, where the rule is that anything on the floor goes. He didn’t have a lock, but friends said they had parked inside the store before. On Sunday, though, the black BMX bike was sold. |
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- AP - A proposal to make walking the official exercise of Maryland could get the boot ? again. A bill sponsored by Sen. Verna Jones was introduced Thursday, but some lawmakers question what makes the activity so special to Maryland. A previous attempt at the designation was vetoed several years ago by then-Gov. |
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- AP - President Bush said Thursday he will not jeopardize security gains in Iraq by withdrawing U.S. forces too fast, another signal that troop reductions could slow or stop altogether this summer. |
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- AP - As of Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, at least 3,942 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. |
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- AP - PRESERVING OPTIONS: The United States wants to preserve the right to hunt down top foreign fighters, as it negotiates a long-term security agreement with the Iraqis, according to a working draft described to The Associated Press. |
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- AP - Britain’s military is investigating allegations that 22 detainees died in its custody and nine others were tortured after a battle in Iraq, officials said Thursday. |
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- AFP - The US command in Iraq appears leaning toward freezing further troop reductions this summer as security gains in the country remain fragile, despite the deep unpopularity of the five-year-old war. |
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- McClatchy Newspapers - MOSUL, Iraq? Iraq’s third-largest city looks like Baghdad did a year ago. |
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