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Fossella's Biggest Obstacle
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| The New York Sun, by Alicia Colon
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| Posted By: tinnyanko
- 5/9/2008 12:11:21 PM
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| Ever since my congressman, Vito Fossella, was arrested on a DWI last Thursday, the local papers were spreading gossip about Fossella's love child with the woman who bailed him out of jail. He was finally forced to acknowledge his daughter yesterday and it bodes ill for his re-election to Congress in November. However, the biggest obstacle to his political career is neither his arrest nor his infidelity, but the fact that he is a Republican |
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From Their House to the White House
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| Wall Street Journal, by CHRISTINA S.N. LEWIS
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| Posted By: JoniTx
- 5/9/2008 12:08:06 PM
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| Like millions of Americans, the three presidential candidates rode the real-estate wave. But for them there's been no hard landing, and well-timed home purchases in prime neighborhoods have left two of them -- Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton -- with millions in real-estate gains.The McCain family owns at least seven properties, including a spread in rural Arizona. In the past four years .. |
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Russia Parades Military Might
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| New York Times, by C.J. CHIVERS
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| Posted By: mcclir
- 5/9/2008 12:03:15 PM
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| MOSCOW — Nuclear missile launchers and columns of tanks rolled through Red Square Friday in a display of martial hardware not seen in front of the Kremlin since the waning days of the Soviet Union. The parade, smaller in scale than similar commemorations in the Soviet period but laden with significance and mixed messages, marked the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which is observed in Russia as a solemn state holiday. |
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Gag on 2nd Amendment
Is City’s Aim in Guns Suit
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| New York Sun, by Joseph Goldstein
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| Posted By: mc squared
- 5/9/2008 11:40:34 AM
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| Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity. |
Study: Stay-at-Home Mom
Worth Nearly $117,000 a Year
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| Associated Press, by Staff
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| Posted By: kono
- 5/9/2008 11:35:08 AM
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| BOSTON - If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year. That's according to a pre-Mother's Day study released Thursday by Salary.com, a Waltham, Mass.-based firm that studies workplace compensation. (Snip) Working moms reported an average 54.6 hour ''mom work week'' besides the hours they spent at paying jobs. |
Bernie Ward admits to
child porn in plea deal
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| San Francisco Chronicle, by Bob Egelko
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| Posted By: Hermoine
- 5/9/2008 11:28:52 AM
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| Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years. Ward, 57, a former Roman Catholic priest, was a fixture on KGO-AM 810 for three hours every weeknight, known in recent years for his fervent denunciations of President Bush... |
Plame seeks to resurrect
lawsuit in CIA leak case
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| Associated Press, by Staff
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| Posted By: FLgator
- 5/9/2008 11:25:27 AM
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| WASHINGTON — Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally outed her as a CIA operative in 2003. Plame says her CIA cover was blown as retribution for her husband's criticism of the Iraq war. She says that violated her constitutional rights. A federal judge dismissed Plame's lawsuit last year on procedural grounds. Her lawyers asked a federal appeals court Friday to force the judge to consider the merits of the case. |
Desperate Hillbillies
Threaten to Break up Party
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| New York Post, by Charles Hurt
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 11:24:53 AM
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| Washington - First it was Bill Clinton dismissing Barack Obama as just another black candidate winning South Carolina. Now comes Hillary Rodham Clinton, splashing moonshine onto those smoldering embers by telling West Virginia voters that ''hardworking Americans, white Americans'' support her, not Obama. This, she argues, is why superdelegates should strip the nomination from Obama and give it to her, even though she trails him by every legitimate measure. Is this really how Democratic Party bosses talk in smoky back rooms? |
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My 'Racial Harassment' Nightmare
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| New York Post, by Keith John Sampson
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 11:16:16 AM
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| In November, I was found guilty of ''racial harassment'' for reading a public-library book on a university campus. The book was Todd Tucker's ''Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan.'' I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library. Tucker recounts events of 1924, when the loathsome Klan was a dominant force in Indiana... |
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In Fairness to Hillary
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| Creators Syndicate, by David Limbaugh
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 11:10:14 AM
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| The question, my fellow election watchers, is not, ''Why won't Hillary do the honorable thing and quit?'' but ''Why won't Democrats do the honorable thing and quit trying to force her to?'' Did Democrats make Ted Kennedy quit when he fought Jimmy Carter through the Democratic convention in 1980 in an effort to dislodge pledged delegates though Carter had already secured a majority? That was far worse than anything Hillary is doing. |
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Class ring, memories recovered 51 years later
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| Seattle Times, by Haley Edwards
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| Posted By: maggie2u
- 5/9/2008 11:00:17 AM
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| It was 1957. Eisenhower was president, Elvis Presley was taking the nation by storm, and David Perry — now 77 and living in Maple Valley — had just lost his gold college class ring, somewhere off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. |
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Clinton camp willing to go beyond June 3
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| The Hill, by Sam Youngman
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| Posted By: FLgator
- 5/9/2008 10:53:07 AM
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| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) senior advisers said Friday they are willing to push the nomination fight beyond the last contests on June 3 if neither candidate reaches the delegate requirement that includes Michigan and Florida. While most analysts have determined that Clinton’s chances are all but nil, Geoff Garin and Howard Wolfson, two of Clinton’s senior advisers, told a group of reporters over breakfast that if frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) does not reach 2,209 delegates by June 3, the campaign will continue. |
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Georgia: McCain 53% Obama 39%
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| Rasmussen Reports, by Staff
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/9/2008 10:49:29 AM
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| John McCain continues to enjoy a solid lead over both potential Democratic opponents in Georgia. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Peach State found McCain leading Barack Obama 53% to 39% and Hillary Clinton 48% to 37%. (Snip) McCain is viewed favorably by 59% of Georgia voters, down from 64% in March. Obama's favorable ratings are at 43% while Clinton's are at 39%. |
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Iran Shouts “Nuclear Apartheid”
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| Commentary Magazine, by Gordon G. Chang
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| Posted By: Jbny
- 5/9/2008 10:37:47 AM
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| On Monday, Iran’s Ali Asghar Soltanieh said Tehran would not submit to extensive U.N. inspections of its nuclear program while Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran is a signatory to the NPT, as the global pact is called, and, as such, is not permitted to build or hold nuclear weapons. Israel, which maintains a small arsenal of nukes, has not joined the NPT. |
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Oil price jumps above $126 for first time
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| Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/9/2008 10:29:36 AM
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| LONDON — Oil prices hit a record high above 126 dollars on Friday, driven by speculative interest amid concerns about tight global energy supplies, analysts said. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, spiked as high as 126.20 dollars in mid-afternoon London trading hours. |
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Obama Needs a History Lesson
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| Real Clear Politics, by Jack Kelly
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 10:19:40 AM
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| In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon. In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: ''I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did... |
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A Secular Market Nightmare
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| FrontPage Magazine, by Alyssa A. Lappen
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 10:14:08 AM
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| The global sub-prime mortgage mess would have been ''unthinkable in the Islamic capital markets sector,'' Malaysian Islamic finance scholar Mohammed Mahmud Awan told Arab News on April 24; Islamic law, or ''shari'a principles'' would prohibit selling ''a debt against a debt,'' Awan said at a Bahrain university globalization conference. Trading trillions of dollars in debt without assets backing them caused the crisis, Awan claimed, adding that the ''Islamic finance model...would have easily prevented... |
Unhappy With 'Confrontational' Image,
U.S. Panel Wants King Statue Reworked
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| The Washington Post, by Michael E. Ruane
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| Posted By: Gazoo
- 5/9/2008 9:54:22 AM
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| A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts thinks "the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries," ... |
LatAm foreign investment record
$106 bln in '07-UN
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| Reuters, by Simon Gardner
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| Posted By: PageTurner
- 5/9/2008 9:52:11 AM
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| SANTIAGO - Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean hit a record of over $100 billion in 2007, the U.N. Latin American Economic Commission said on Thursday.
The increase was driven by transnational companies seeking to expand into new markets and capitalize on demand growth for both goods and services, and in search of natural resources, the commission said in an annual report.
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Democrats tout shift in Hispanic voting
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| Miami Herald [FL], by Beth Reinhard
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| Posted By: PageTurner
- 5/9/2008 9:37:59 AM
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| Hispanic voters registered as Democrats have overtaken Hispanic Republicans in Florida, signaling a trend that, if it continues, could have far-reaching implications for the 2008 election and U.S. foreign policy.
Until now, the politically influential, mostly Republican Cuban-American community in Miami-Dade made Florida the only state in the country where, among Hispanics, Republicans outnumbered Democrats.
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Chávez Aided Colombia Rebels,
Captured Computer Files Show
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| Wall Street Journal, by JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
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| Posted By: PageTurner
- 5/9/2008 9:21:28 AM
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| BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- A cache of controversial computer files closely tying Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez to communist rebels seeking to topple Colombia's government appear to be authentic, U.S. intelligence officials say.
The trove -- found on a dead guerrilla leader's laptops during a military raid in March -- is likely to ratchet up pressure for the U.S. to impose sanctions on one of its most important oil suppliers.
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UN halts aid to Myanmar after
junta seizes supplies
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| AP, by Staff
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| Posted By: PageTurner
- 5/9/2008 9:07:16 AM
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| YANGON, Myanmar - A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country.
He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved.
WFP spokesman Paul Risley said Friday that all "the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated." The shipment included 38 tons of high-energy biscuits.
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Obama: No sprout-eating Volvo-driver
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| Chicago Tribune , by Mark Silva
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| Posted By: JoniTx
- 5/9/2008 8:41:08 AM
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| Barack Obama talked about his lousy bowling, his on-again, off-again flag pins and neck-ties and what he's trying to prove with any of this -- nothing -- in that interview with NBC News that aired last night and exists in longer form at the network's Web-site.
With "due respect,'' NBC's Brian Williams told Obama, "I'm not guessing you've had a lot of bowling experience. ... But you .. |
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Sen. Clinton and the Campaign
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| The New York Times, by Editorial writer
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/9/2008 8:40:48 AM
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| There is a lot of talk that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now fated to lose the Democratic nomination and should pull out of the race. We believe it is her right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so. That is the essence of the democratic process. |
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Shiite Militias Seize Beirut Neighborhoods
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| The New York Times, by Nada Bakri & Graham Bowley
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| Posted By: Dreadnought
- 5/9/2008 8:36:16 AM
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| BEIRUT, Lebanon — Shiite militia fighters commandeered the television station and newspaper and political offices of the Sunni parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri, on Friday and took control of several Beirut neighborhoods. But the Lebanese capital had mostly returned to calm on Friday morning after fierce clashes Thursday and overnight between the Sunni supporters of the government and loyalists of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group. |
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