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Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
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| AP, by Matt Apuzzo
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| Posted By: wnaegele
- 5/9/2008 4:21:31 PM
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| WASHINGTON - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity. A federal judge dismissed Plame's lawsuit last year, saying there was no basis to bring a case. Plame's lawyers asked a federal appeals court Friday to send the case back before the judge and force him to consider its merits.
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U.S. Economy: Trade Deficit
Narrows as Imports Fall
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| Bloomberg News, by Bob Willis
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 4:19:13 PM
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| U.S. demand for imported goods slumped in March, overwhelming the impact of the first export decline in more than a year and causing the American trade deficit to shrink more than forecast. ''Consumers have cut back significantly in just about every area but necessities, and we're seeing clear evidence of this'' in imports (Snip) Imports dropped the most in six years as purchases of furniture, cars and telecommunications gear fell |
Bollea gets 8 months in jail,
probation for reckless driving
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| Tampa Tribune, by Elaine Silvestrini
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| Posted By: Hazymac
- 5/9/2008 4:16:03 PM
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| Clearwater - A judge sentenced Nick Bollea to five years probation and eight months in county jail after the 17-year-old pleaded no contest this afternoon to reckless driving. His attorneys had asked Circuit Judge Philip J. Federico to spare the 17-year-old the state prison sentence. "Something has to be done to show this is not acceptable," the judge said, in imposing the jail sentence. |
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Dem Leader: It's Not 'Practical'
to Stop War-Funding Vote
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| CNS News, by Josiah Ryan
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 4:09:48 PM
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| House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told Cybercast News Service Thursday that he does not think it would be ''practical'' to stop the war in Iraq simply by not allowing a war-funding bill to come up for a vote on the House floor, something that it is within his power as Majority Leader to do. Hoyer also said that the troops in harm's way in Iraq need support from Congress. |
Bulletins at Obama's Church
Carry Their Own Controversy
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| CNS News, by Fred Lucas
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 4:04:54 PM
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| Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) recently said his relationship with his long-time pastor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright ''changed'' after what Obama called the clergyman's ''divisive and destructive'' remarks at the National Press Club. Later, however, Obama stressed his loyalty to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where he has been a member for many years. (Snip) the Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin in 2007 carried controversial comments written by people other than Jeremiah Wright. |
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Stolen laptop leads victim to alleged thieves
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| Journal News [White Plains, NY], by Richard Liebson
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:59:42 PM
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| White Plains - Smile, you're busted. A tech-savvy White Plains woman whose apartment was burglarized solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said. (Snip) signed onto another computer and used the ''Back to My Mac'' program to determine that her stolen MacIntosh laptop indeed was signed onto the Web and that someone was using it to shop online. She then activated the stolen computer's camera, allowing her to ''see'' what was in front of the laptop. |
Congress: Al-Qaeda Using Internet
to Recruit Terrorists in the US
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| CNS News, by Penny Starr
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:52:18 PM
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| Using a video montage showing mass executions, bomb-making, and a promise to ''slit the throats of Americans and Jews,'' two U.S. lawmakers unveiled a report that says homegrown violent Islamic extremism poses an increasing threat to the safety of the American people. The bipartisan report by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was unveiled by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) at a press conference |
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Goons In Rangoon
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| Investor's Business Daily, by Staff
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| Posted By: MsFalconersCabanaBoy
- 5/9/2008 3:51:35 PM
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| Burma's regime signals that allowing aid to its cyclone-stricken people isn't an obligation. As thousands die, why does the U.N. coddle this junta when the only humane response is to throw it out? That's not a pipe-dream of ours, but United Nations doctrine. The 2005 "responsibility to protect" civilians resolution, passed in the wake of genocides in Africa, requires the United Nations to intervene when governments cannot or will not protect their citizens, even if it means violating a nation's sovereignty. In Burma's case, it's appropriate. |
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Once a Marine ...
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| Washington Times, by Gary Anderson
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 3:51:34 PM
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| Jeremiah Wright Jr. had quite a month for himself in April. He singlehandedly left the campaign of his long-time friend and parishioner Barack Obama with damage-control problems that the captain of the Titanic might have recognized. But his bridge burning did not stop there. Mr. Wright also alienated the United States Marine Corps. He hides behind the fact that he once wore the uniform of the Corps when people impugn his very questionable patriotism... |
Nevada judge accused of
demanding royal treatment
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| Associated Press, by Ken Ritter
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:45:21 PM
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| Las Vegas - - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen. Her former bailiff, for example, says Halverson made him feel like a ''houseboy.'' He says the judge - who is obese and uses a motorized scooter to get around - made him put her shoes on her feet, massage her back, cover her with a blanket for naps and make sure her oxygen tank was filled. |
Has Big Media Global Warming
Bias Begun to Endanger the Public?
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| American Thinker, by Bill Tate
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| Posted By: Another_Fred
- 5/9/2008 3:38:05 PM
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| When Maine officials tried to warn residents of the dangers of this winter's near-record snowpack, Big Media slanted the story, hampering efforts to warn folks of the danger. "This winters [sic] near-record snowfall has created a flood potential that is above normal," began a news advisory released by the Maine River Flow Advisor Commission on March 6th. (Snip) However, the lead in the Associated Press story in the next day's edition of the major regional daily, the Boston Globe, downplayed the threat posed by the snowpack... |
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Small-scale farmers demand land
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| South African Press Association, by Staff
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:31:30 PM
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| Cape Town - Small-scale farmers from the Western and Northern Cape provinces marched to Parliament on Friday in protest against government's ''sluggish'' land reform programme. Chanting pro-Zuma slogans, the more than 200 protesters accused government of turning a deaf ear to their grievances, that included land deprivation and lack of state support. |
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Mbeki, Mugabe meet in Zim
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| Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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- 5/9/2008 3:29:45 PM
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| Harare - SA President Thabo Mbeki on Friday held intensive talks with veteran counterpart Robert Mugabe over Zimbabwe's post-election crisis as doctors reported a dramatic rise in violence. Mbeki, the southern African region's chief mediator on Zimbabwe, went straight into talks with Mugabe after arriving in Harare for his first visit since the announcement of presidential election results. |
In Visit to Israel, Bush Can
Prevent A War With Iran
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| Roll Call, by Mort Kondrake
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:22:53 PM
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| When President Bush visits Israel next week, he should offer to bring that ally fully into the U.S. missile defense network - a step that might forestall an Israeli attack on Iran this year. Two of the most strategically minded Members of Congress I know - Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.) - have enlisted 63 colleagues to urge the move as Bush prepares to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding. |
Obama picks up 5
superdelegates, union endorsement
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| Associated Press, by Joan Lowy
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:18:37 PM
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| Washington - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign. Obama picked up the backing of five superdelegates, including Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who had been a Clinton supporter. In addition, the American Federation of Government Employees announced its support for Obama. |
Government asks court to
block wider testing for mad cow
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| Associated Press, by Sam Hananel
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| Posted By: Photoonist
- 5/9/2008 3:15:45 PM
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| Washington - The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority. The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Arkansas City, Kan.-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere. |
'Blue Dog' Democrats Join
GOP in Opposing War Bill
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| Washington Post, by Paul Kane
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- 5/9/2008 3:08:14 PM
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| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday postponed consideration of a bill that would continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bloc of conservative Democrats balked at the high cost of including several of Pelosi's favored domestic spending programs. Pelosi (D-Calif.), who also faces Republican stalling tactics in protest of unusual parliamentary procedures, predicted that the complaints of ''Blue Dog'' Democrats would be addressed and that the bill eventually would receive unanimous support from Democrats. |
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The ''Non-Judgmental'' Michael Moore
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| FrontPage Magazine, by Humberto Fontova
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| Posted By: stjohnswood
- 5/9/2008 3:04:18 PM
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| Last week on the Larry King Show, Michael Moore took the high road. He simply could not bring himself to pronounce judgment on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's tirades. ''I'm a white guy,'' explained the rotund film-maker. ''And I mean, you have to ask yourself, Larry, what's it like to be black in America? ....And I do not believe, as a white guy, that I am in any position to judge a black man who has had to live through that.” Michael Moore's non-judgmental scruples apply only to celebrity victims of Jim Crow Lite. |
UN halts aid to Myanmar
after junta seizes supplies
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| Associated Press, by Staff
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- 5/9/2008 2:26:50 PM
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| YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments headed for hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, prompting the world body to suspend further help on Friday. (Snip) "All of the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated," U.N. World Food Program spokesman Paul Risley said. "For the time being, we have no choice but to end further efforts to bring critical needed food aid into Myanmar at this time." Myanmar's government acknowledged taking control of the shipments... |
Obama Unlikely to Pick Clinton
as Running Mate, Kennedy Says
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| Bloomberg News, by Kristin Jensen
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| Posted By: FLgator
- 5/9/2008 2:18:17 PM
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| Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. ``I don't think it's possible,'' Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital With Al Hunt,'' airing this weekend. Kennedy, 76, without naming names, said Obama should pick someone who ``is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.'' |
Mountain State's an
uphill climb for Obama
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| USA Today, by Kathy Kiely
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/9/2008 1:52:31 PM
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| WAYNE, W.Va. — The location of Democrat Barack Obama's just-opened headquarters here says a lot about the challenges facing him and this community as voters prepare to go to the polls in Tuesday's primary. His office is across from the courthouse and next to a thrift shop. The torn awning over its door indicates the storefront used to be a restaurant.
Though the bell tower atop the courthouse gleams with a fresh coat of paint — the state colors of blue and gold — the rest of the town has the faded look of a community that has seen better days. |
Charity work shows another
side to Sadr's movement in Iraq
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| McClatchy Newspapers, by Shashank Bengali
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/9/2008 1:47:56 PM
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| BAGHDAD — When Ali Ateya was killed last month at the age of 23_ a victim of an American airstrike on a block of concrete tenements in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, according to his family — there was no money for his burial. Within days, two officials from Sadr City's main humanitarian organization showed up at the family home. (Snip) Then they handed the parents an envelope. It was stuffed with 500,000 Iraqi dinars — about $400 — and on it was printed: "A gift from Sayyid Muqtada al Sadr." Sadr, the fiery anti-American Shiite cleric... |
Canadian train in
quarantine after death, illness
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| Reuters, by Staff
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| Posted By: NorthernDog
- 5/9/2008 1:41:07 PM
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| TORONTO - One person died and several others were taken to hospital after a mystery illness hit passengers on a Canadian long-distance train, local media said on Friday. Canadian Press said the train had some 290 people on board and was on a cross-Canada route between Vancouver and Toronto. One person died, and several were ill with flu-like symptoms. The train was in quarantine in the small northern Ontario community of Foleyet, and nobody except emergency personnel were being allowed aboard. |
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Mosques: We will not bury this Muslim
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| Philadelphia Daily News, by Kitty Caparella
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| Posted By: Zalmon
- 5/9/2008 1:40:06 PM
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| The leadership of the Germantown Masjid has refused to conduct funeral services for Howard Cain, the bank robber who killed Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski with a Chinese-made semi-automatic rifle. "No, we will not bury him at Germantown Masjid," said Tariq El Shabazz, managing director of the mosque. "We don't want one slight scintilla hinting that we condone his behavior." (Snip) "Their actions are not from Islam. You don't dress like a woman, you don't rob people or transgress against them or commit murder. On all three grounds, they are dead wrong. |
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Sky's the limit for floating logos
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| Orlando Sentinel, by Scott Powers
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| Posted By: Sparkycat
- 5/9/2008 1:14:57 PM
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| If Francisco Guerra has his way, cloud-like Mickey Mouse figures the size of small table tops will one day drift into the sky above the Magic Kingdom, along with Harry Potter clouds over Universal Orlando or perhaps Shamu phantoms above SeaWorld Orlando. Guerra, president of Alabama-based SnowMasters Special Effects Inc., is talking with the region's theme parks, notably Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, about using a new promotional technology he has created that makes helium-filled, foam-bubble figures he calls "Flogos." |
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