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Dust Bowl from the Great Depression The Swamp: The “economic slowdown,” as President Bush calls it, has not turned negative yet. The nation’s Gross Domestic Product grew by a meager 0.6 percent during the first quarter of the year, the Commerce Department reports this morning. That equaled the sluggish growth of the final quarter of [...]
People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term ‘Lesbian’ ATHENS, Greece (AP) – A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women. Three islanders from Lesbosâ€â€home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between womenâ€â€have taken [...]
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Wash. Times: President Bush blamed the Democratic Congress for blocking bills he said would have lowered gas prices, marking a coordinated strategy with congressional Republicans to shift responsibility for the nation’s economic woes to Democrats. They, in turn, were quick to strike back. “I’ve repeatedly submitted proposals to help address these problems. Yet time after [...]
BADEN-BADEN Germany (AP) – Former SS doctor Aribert Heim tops a list of most-wanted suspected Nazi war criminals released Wednesday. He is a man so brutal that witnesses remember him as the worst they saw, though he was only at Mauthausen concentration camp for two months. Heim would be 93 today, but “we have good [...]
I would say Iran was tied with AQ. WASHINGTON – Nearly seven years after the September 11 attacks, al Qaeda remains the biggest terrorist threat to the United States and its allies, the U.S. State Department said in an annual report on Wednesday. The country-by-country survey of terrorism trends and incidents in 2007 said al [...]
Politico: From Annapolis to Vietnam and back to the Pentagon, John McCain and Jim Webb trod the same paths before coming to the Senate. Iraq divides them today, but there’s also the new kinship of being anxious fathers watching their sons come and go with Marine units in the war. So what does it say [...]
GENEVA (AP) – Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspiredâ€â€and arguably corruptedâ€â€millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement [...]
Previous “Deep Thoughts” 4:08 A.M. Hey, everybody. I had some health issues over the last couple of days…still dealing with it, still not even close to 100%, BUT, back to work… 5:06 A.M. “The judge is considering a psychological exam.” – Gretchen Carlson on teen who wanted to blow up his High School so he [...]
NEW YORK – First it was Barack Obama. Now Hillary Clinton’s appearing on Fox News Channel. Clinton will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” for the first time, sitting down for a two-part interview that will air Wednesday and Thursday. She and host Bill O’Reilly will talk in South Bend, Ind., where Clinton is campaigning ahead [...]