Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Date: Aug 8th 2008 12:42p.m. Contributed by: siennapc This morning, August 8, at 8:08 am, Presidents George Bush Sr and Jr along with U.S. Ambassador Clark T. Randt opened the new U.S. Embassy. Henry Kissinger was also there. City Weekend has the exclusive photos! Click VIEW ALL IMAGES to view the slideshow!
Raising Kaine - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
As part of our two-year retrospective of George Allen's "macaca moment," here's Joe Stanley's account of getting the video tapes (from S.R. Sidarth), watching them, and realizing there was a major story there: On Saturday, August 12th, I was called by [Webb for Senate technology director] Kevin Druff and [Webb for Senate research director] Jon Paul Lupo about some tracker video the Webb for Senate...
The Existentialist Cowboy (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
US/China trade has benefited China and a US elite consisting of about 1 percent of the nation's total population. It should come as no surprise, then, that the origins of US/China Trade are traced to the GOP administration of Richard Nixon. It is to be expected, then, that it was George Bush Sr who laid the groundwork for this sellout of the American middle class. Fact is 'US/China trade' was never...
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
With a cover of Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World" belting out and James Cromwell's George Bush Sr delivering lines to Josh Brolin's Dubya like this ... "What are you cut out for? Fighting, chasing tail, driving drunk? What do you think you are? A Kennedy? You're a Bush. Act like one." ... it sure sounds like one. Trailer: for Oliver Stone's upcoming George W. Bush biopic, W .
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
" Is Dubya an Agent of the New World Order? " by William Hughes “ Out of these troubled times, our...objective can emerge--’a New World Order.’ ” - George Bush, Sr., Dubya’s Daddy When you mention the word “conspiracy” to explain a situation, most people tune you right out. They think you’re a whack-oh. Yet, the U.S. Congress, as dumb as it is, subscribes to the proposition that there is such a thing....
News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The rumors flew and grew as the big S&S Cycle event went on:
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am a firm believer that the national polling really does not matter until after the second convention. When both candidates have chosen their VP and held their conventions, then I think we will really get a good idea of how the candidates are stacking up. [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008 | Politics
Two weeks ago, Huffington Post reminded Americans that John McCain by his own admission doesn’t know how to use a computer. Now, McCain campaign aide Mark Soohoo reassured voters that “John McCain is aware of the Internet” and “You don’t actually have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country.” No doubt, [...]
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
They certainly pop out of the woodwork, don't they. I can just see Ramadan Christmas at the White House. HOPE! CHANGE! BARCK OBAMA'S LOST BROTHER FOUND IN KENYA Telegraph hat tip Cherrie The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Just two years ago, the modern age of YouTube/Web Video Politics began: On 8.11.06, Sen. George Allen, a shoo in for reelection and early favorite...
Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Fast facts: 49 consecutive losses. No wins since 2001. No winning season since 1995. But at least they have a new stadium, and have come close to breaking the streak in the past two seasons, with an end of game missed field goal the difference in a game against York last year, and a narrow loss to Waterloo the year before. The departure of head coach Steve Howlett does not mean the school is
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
In March 1988, the CIA provided French intelligence officials with passport photos of Imad Mugniyah as well as information about the forged passport he was using. This enabled French immigration authorities to identify him at the border control. Yet because they feared that Mugniyah’s arrest would prompt the murder of French hostages held by his group in Lebanon, the French stepped back, to the great...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- As reported in publications and news outlets throughout the world, a seven-year-old child singer with "crooked" and "buck" teeth was replaced at the summer games opening show's musical for a child with a straighter smile. Although the decision spawned disbelief around the globe, sadly, the phenomenon of making judgments about others based solely on the condition of...
The Gryffindor Gazette (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
I’m re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for like the fourth time right now, and of course, I’m brought to tears by the tragedies at the end of the book. NOTE: If you have not read Deathly Hallows, please stop reading! For instance, George Weasley. I can barely read the part where he dies, killed [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Today marks two years since then-senator George Allen made a racial epithet against S.R. Sidarth, a campaign volunteer of Indian descent for Jim Webb. Coincidentally, Fox News brought on Allen today to talk about campaign politics, but made no mention of the ‘macaca’ anniversary. Raising Kaine put together a two-year retrospective here.
