The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has focused the country once again on race and gender, a political discussion that can get very nasty. Listen to this exchange on NBC News: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PAT BUCHANAN: He got down to four women. Not a single white …
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Social networking isn’t limited to the time-wasting antics of kids on Facebook and Friendster. A new Web site aims to turn business networking on its ear. A prime tenet of all social networking sites is simple, a play on the six-degrees-of-separation meme: If everyone is only a few friends distant …
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Damascus, SYRIA – It is fertile ground that bears unforgettable fruit. It has vineyards. Barbed wire. Bitter history. And an uncertain future. The Golan Heights was seized by Israel in the 1967 war. Syria and Egypt attacked Israel in 1972 to try to get the Golan back but didn’t succeed. …
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It amounted to breaking news for CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “Saturday Night Live” did a skit, in which they poked fun of President Obama. Take a look, take-a-lookers: (BEGIN “SNL” VIDEO CLIP) FRED ARMISEN AS PRESIDENT OBAMA: When you look at my record, it’s very clear what I’ve done so far. …
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Holly Madison is no stranger to flashing her “enhanced” assets to the world, but it seems the former Playgirl got a little bit of unplanned rehearsal for her upcoming role in the topless production “Peepshow” while partying in Sin City on Saturday night. According to an eyewitness, Madison was left …
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A Christian evangelical group that works to improve the lives of underprivileged children says it has been prohibited from conducting Bible study classes in public housing projects in Tulsa, Okla., potentially violating a Supreme Court ruling that upheld religious groups’ right to the use of public institutions. For more than …
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The bearded boob Paul Krugman lays the blame for the Holocaust museum shooting on everyone to the right of Karl Marx. Meanwhile, the AP heaves blame on anyone who doesn’t light a candle before a hand-painted portrait of Barack Obama. According to the AP writer Jesse Washington: “The potential for …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Not Over Yet More than a week after the voting, there are questions about who really won in the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman conceded to Democrat Bill Owens late on election night, after receiving …
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A spokesman for Casey Anthony’s defense lawyer accused police of lying to the press and suggested they could be tampering with evidence at the site where a little child’s bones were found. Todd Black, a spokesman for Anthony’s lead attorney Jose Baez, complained that investigators won’t let the defense team …
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Case: Entergy Corp. v. EPA (and two other similar cases) Date: Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008 Issue: Whether the Clean Water Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to compare costs with benefits in determining the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact at water-intake cooling structures. Background: Three cases …
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