Beijing (AP) – A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won China’s Got Talent. Liu Wei performed his version of James Blunt’s love song You’re Beautiful to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium. All three judges on the show praised the 23-year-old for [...]
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Weekly Standard: If billionaire Alki David is an honest man, the man who streaked in front of Barack Obama at the president’s rally today in Philadelphia will be paid $1 million for his stunt. The man who performed today’s stunt, which captured the attention of the Drudge Report and an Associated Press photographer, is 24-year-old [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino told Orthodox Jewish leaders on Sunday he doesn’t want children “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality” is acceptable. Paladino, who has received tea party support, made the comments at a synagogue in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section while trying to strike a contrast between himself and his Democratic rival, [...]
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The Hill: A fresh challenge to a South American strongman has fed bipartisan support for the White House to significantly change how it deals with Venezuela. The Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere subcommittee believe that the Obama administration should focus engagement with Venezuela on reaching out to [...]
Haaretz: The latest reports from Lebanon describe a frightened country; the Lebanese are terrified about the prospect of a slide toward civil war. Several reports indicate that residents are arming themselves in expectation of a flare-up of violence between the two main antagonists in Lebanon today: Hezbollah and its allies on the one hand, and [...]
CBS News: Mexican news media are reporting that Mexican police officials have identified two persons of interest in connection with the shooting of an American tourist on Falcon Lake, on the U.S.-Mexico border. Tamaulipas State Police Commander Juan Carlos Ballesteros told El Universal newspaper on Saturday that authorities believe Juan Pedro Saldivar-Farias and Jose Manuel [...]
New York Times: PHILADELPHIA – With his party facing losses in next month’s election, President Obama pressed his argument Sunday that the opposition is trying to steal the election with secret special-interest money, including possibly from foreign companies. In a speech to a large rally here and in a new television advertisement, Mr. Obama and [...]
Washington Post: White House senior adviser David Axelrod signaled Sunday that the Obama administration is opposed to a national moratorium on foreclosures, even as pressure from Congress, labor unions and consumer groups mounts for the federal government to take action. Calling the growing evidence that lenders have used inaccurately prepared and even fraudulent documents to [...]
DENVER (AP) – The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero, appealing two court rulings that the statute is an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech. The fight could be carried all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it would face [...]
Beautiful melody, haunting chorus that evokes everyone’s sense of existential yearning (both of which will pop up in your head from time to time over the years after just the first listening), but what the hell led him to waste it all on this topic? Creepy.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation.
Bakersfield.com: Close to10,000 people crowded into the Bakersfield Business Conference’s main tent to see former Vice President Dick Cheney be “interviewed” by Lynne Cheney, his wife of 46 years. Collecting that many people all under one tent roof is a sight to see, and Mrs. Cheney commented on what a great crowd the conference had [...]
