The Sacramento Bee: In 2100, Fisherman’s Wharf would become Fisherman’s Bay, the baseball diamond at AT&T Park would flood and two major Bay Area airports would better serve seaplanes under a climate change model unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Google. The governor released a new report determining that global warming, left unabated, would [...]
WTSP: PALMVIEW, Texas – President Barack Obama’s approval rating may be hovering in the 50 percent range, but that doesn’t mean America’s Commander-in-Chief isn’t catching on with new constituents. There is now a line of Ecstasy pills made in the image of the 44th president of the United States, according to Texas police who have [...]
CBS: NEW YORK (CBS) – These days, more than half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, and while Tiger Woods apologized for his transgressions, some are wondering whether he’ll beat the odds and save his relationship…and the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost him otherwise. Many people CBS 2 HD [...]
Roaring Republican: “The United States and Russia do not intend to, and cannot, create the future government of Afghanistan. It is up to the Afghans themselves to determine their future.” – Joint US/Russia release on Afghanistan – November 13th 2001 The comedian Sam Kinison had a routinue that described succinctly and almost eloquently, in its [...]
The Hill: Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon. Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government is wading into deliberations over the future of journalism as printed newspapers, television stations and other traditional media outlets suffer from Americans’ growing reliance on the Internet. With the media business in a state of economic distress as audiences and advertisers migrate online, the Federal Trade Commission began a [...]
CBS: During the Senate Armed Services hearing today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was pressed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. on whether the July 2011 date for beginning to withdrawal troops is “locked in.” Gates seemed to suggest there was some flexibility, that “it was a clear statement of his strong intent” and that “the president [...]
Daily Mail: The House of Commons was yesterday suffering from an unusual shortage of white papers – toilet papers, that is. MPs and peers were left desperate after officials in the Palace of Westminster were caught short by a lack of loo roll. Staff responsible for replenishing the Commons toilets began to report mid-morning that [...]
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American Thinker: Could British politics teach us something about Sarah Palin’s political future? David Frum — not my favorite conservative — recently published What the Tories Have to Teach Us in Commentary Magazine. In it, he notes that the Conservative Party in the U.K., after suffering a massive defeat twelve years ago, has turned its [...]
Fox News: The Pentagon will “evaluate” next year whether the military can meet its goal of starting to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by July 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday under tough questioning, signaling that the withdrawal date could move back if violence spirals out of control. President Obama said in announcing the timeline [...]
ROME (AP) – An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had [...]
NewsBusters: Newsweek.com on Tuesday offered a bizarre, liberal fantasy that posited what would happen if Al Gore won the 2000 election. Writer David Rakoff composed the supposedly satirical article, which features Gore averting the 9/11 terrorist attacks: “An August 2001 Daily Intelligence Briefing warns, ‘Bin Ladin [sic] Determined to Strike in the U.S.,’ which prompts [...]
VIENNA (AP) – In a defiant speech, Iran’s president declared Wednesday that his country will enrich uranium to a much higher level—a fresh rejection of an international plan to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Experts said that could put Tehran on the road to making the material needed to arm a warhead within months. “I declare [...]
