Elizabeth Edwards on why her husband John might be an underdog for president:
"We can't make John black, we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars."
Can't make him smart, either.
Elizabeth Edwards on why her husband John might be an underdog for president:
"We can't make John black, we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars."
Can't make him smart, either.
Thank you, St. Joe, for maintaining your burn center:
U.S. hospitals are increasingly shutting down their burn centers in a trend experts say could leave the nation unable to handle widespread burn casualties from a fiery terrorist attack or other major disaster.
Associated Press interviews and an examination of official figures found that the shrinking number of beds is a growing cause for concern in this post-Sept. 11 world.
The Matt Kelty grand jury is heading to its third day of deliberation, and either way it turns out, it's a big story, isn't it? If there is a recommendation to charge him with a campaign-finance-reporting violation, the talk will be about whether he should drop out of the mayor's race and who might replace him if he does. If the conclusion is that no violation occurred, we have to acknowledge that there is a big loophole in state law.
Holy crap! Is it possible that advertising actually works, and more on children than adults?
CHICAGO --Anything made by McDonald's tastes better, preschoolers said in a study that powerfully demonstrates how advertising can trick the taste buds of young children.
I know that I harp on property rights -- they are more important than civil rights -- to the point where some of you tune it out. But if you still think what's yours is yours, read this. (You don't need to go to the link unless you want to check it out; what follows is the story in its entirety.):
NEW ORLEANS -- Jason Banks got his trash hauled away, obtained a building permit, gutted his Ninth Ward home and was ready to renovate.
Bloggers are cowboys, outside the mainstream, anarchists throwing bombs at the establishment, iconoclastic philosophers who go their own way, loners preaching truth to power -- well, you get the idea. So, naturally, they need to band together in solidarity:
Diversity isn't all it's cracked up to be:
IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger.
OK, this one freaks me out a little:
COVINGTON, Ind.
Steven Malanga, senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, says the lease of public assets, as in Go. Daniels' toll-road deal, are a way to get much needed infrastructure capital to help avoid more tragedies such as the Minneapolis bridge collapse:
And you thought the smell of tobacco smoke was bad:
The recent passage of a smoking ban throughout Britain has created a new problem for pub-goers, the stale and foul smells the smoke once covered up.
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For every story about cities being caught by surprise when disaster strikes, you can always find one about some place that's thinking ahead:
A major hurricane hasn't hit New York City in nearly 70 years, but the city has pumped at least $15 million into stockpiling supplies for hundreds of hurricane shelters for the upcoming storm season.
Hey, they'd be perfect for the homeless.
A lot of people are having fun with the Dateline NBC producer who was so clueless about how to go undercover:
Dateline NBC associate producer Michelle Madigan was heckled and derided as she ran from DefCon, the world's largest computer hackers conference, and raced away in a car.
Newsweek revisits its spectacularly wrong global-cooling warning of 1975:
The point to remember, says Connolley, is that predictions of global cooling never approached the kind of widespread scientific consensus that supports the greenhouse effect today.
We were wrong then. We have often been wrong, because climate change is really hard to predict. But we are right this time. Works for me.
No Republican presidential candidate can be much short of "life begins at conception" and hope to get through the primaries without a lot of finessing. Rudy Giuliani has to say the judges he would appoint would be the sort to have pro-life sensibilities and that we should all be federalists. Mitt Romney has to say he was against abortion after he was for it and hope he is believed:
What we had better learn from the Minneapolis bridge collapse, from Popular Mechanics:
August is National Sandwich Month.
The study said that the average U.S. citizen eats about 200 sandwiches a year, and the average child will eat around 1,500 peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches before graduating from high school, Texas A&M found.
Go eat something over the sink to celebrate.
Obama: Be afraid, Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Obama delivered a major anti-terrorism speech in which he essentially threatened the government of Pakistan that as president he would attack al Qaeda targets in the country with or without the permission of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we will," Obama said.
Blah, blah, blah. Does anybody really believe this?
Legislation to toughen ethics and lobbying rules for U.S. lawmakers received final approval on Thursday, nine months after Democrats won control of the U.S. Congress in the wake of scandals mostly involving President George W. Bush's Republicans.
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Elton John the Luddite:
POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN.
Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing.
He claims it is destroying good music, saying: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.
The Smoking Gun drops in on Indianapolis:
Perhaps the next time Shawn Ayers and Nicholas Declouette decide to get, um, frisky, they will not do it in the middle of the day. In a '88 Oldsmobile. Parked in front of an Indianapolis day care center. Ayers, 31, and Declouette, 43, were arrested on public indecency charges when the day care center's operator called cops after spotting the couple getting busy in public.
Gotta love that PDA.
