Gouverneur Times: GOUVERNEUR, NY – The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. Cathleen Rogers, the Democratic Elections Commissioner [...]
Washington Post: Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu. One is the leader of a great democracy. The other is the head of a repressive regime. But as the two men faced reporters in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Obama deferred to the [...]
CNS News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) declined to say Thursday whether Osama bin Laden, when captured by the United States, should be told he has the right to remain silent and be given a lawyer. Pelosi indicated that is not a question Americans should worry about now. CNSNews.com asked Pelosi at her regular press [...]
The LA Times: Writing From Kabul, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration today will be a somber affair. Gray storm clouds are slowly replacing the blue skies, and the sour tang of charcoal smoke hangs in the air. The mood among the internationals here is similarly gloomy. So many conversations end with the scratching [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with “global warming” and “9/11″ topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency [...]
WASHINGTON – Not a speed reader? Want to get through Sarah Palin’s new book in a flash? A look at Palin’s most frequently used words capture some of the key themes of the former Alaska governor’s memoir: Alaska, campaign, Todd, family, kids, right, governor, government, oil, work, energy. The Associated Press electronically scanned the book, [...]
34 Hours, 2074 Pages. 34×60 = 2040, or there are 2040 minutes in 34 hours. So if a Senator spent then entire next 34 hours not sleeping, eating, drinking or going to the bathroom and reading at the speed of just over a page a minute, they would barely finish the health bill in time [...]
Public Policy Polling: Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat. The Republican base is with him though. PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man stayed in his Barcalounger recliner without moving for eight months until shortly before his death. Firefighters had to cut Tillmon Webb from the chair after his mother called paramedics because he was in pain. Greenwood County deputies say the 33-year-old weighed about 800 [...]
Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama’s $900 billion target. That’s for 10 years of revenue-gathering, but only six years of service, according to the analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. Adding in expenses beyond the [...]
Fox News: President Obama’s approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday. An equal number — 46 percent — disapprove of the job he’s doing. Breaking down the numbers by political party shows how sharply split American voters are over the president’s job performance. While [...]
The Hill: The Senate is headed for a rare Saturday vote to advance its major healthcare reform bill without a guarantee of success, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Thursday. At a rally with supporters of the healthcare reform bill, Reid would not say he had secured commitments from all 60 members of the Democratic [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and personnel policies to how well military bases are secured. Army Secretary Togo West and former chief of [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won’t get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers. The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and [...]
MILAN (AP) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won’t be running for another office. “I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else,” Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The daughter of Sen. John Kerry has been arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk. Los Angeles police say 36-year-old Alexandra Kerry was stopped by officers on a Hollywood street after midnight Thursday and failed a sobriety test. Officer Bruce Borihanh said she was booked at the Hollywood police station and [...]
