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Paula Zahn Called Upon to Explain U.S. Radio Program Cuts to Countries With
2008-09-09 04:52:00 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 8, 2008, San Francisco — Perhaps Paula Zahn, formerly of CNN and ABC, could have explained to the White House, the U.S. Congress and the American people why the Voice of America (VOA) Russian-language radio programs were not heard in the war zone in Georgia, or in Russia itself, when the Russian troops ... More About: Radio , Countries , Program , Paula Zahn
Are Top Democrats Freaking Out Over Palin Popularity?
2008-09-09 04:11:00 Whether it is true or not, that several high ranking democratic party insiders and senior Obama-Biden campaign staffers are privately expressing a sense of growing anxiety over the popularity of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. I speculate the deployment of Hillary Clinton to shore up support amongst women and independents who may account for some of ... More About: Democrats , Popularity
CD Review: Take 6 ?The Standard?
2008-09-09 01:40:00 Artist: Take 6 CD: The Standard Label: Heads UP International Release Date: 9-30-08 Very few groups have the ability to cross musical platforms with as much success and as smoothly as Take 6. This group in the 80?s brought a form of music back that had not been heard massively for at least two decades. They ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Review
Book Review: Fuzzy Navel: A Jacqueline ?Jack? Daniels Mystery by J. A. Konr
2008-09-09 00:55:00 Summer is home to the blockbuster movie. Movies that feature old favorite characters trotted out for another adventure in a tale often much weaker than the original good one. Movies that feature stereotypical characters, the occasional all to clever dialogue line, and plenty of violence filled action and mayhem so that the viewer doesn’t notice ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
Congressional Votes Indicate Pattern of Moderation for McCain, Hard Left Ed
2008-09-08 23:43:00 The Obama campaign has been steadily hammering home the “McCain Has Voted With Bush 90 Percent Of The Time” meme, in press releases, candidate statements, etc. And that is in fact true; McCain has voted in accordance with the President’s desires 90% of the time since Bush took office in 2000, according to the Congressional ... More About: Hard , Left , Pattern , Votes
Movie Review: Reprise
2008-09-08 22:57:00 I think film as art gets a bad rap sometimes. Who cares if we don?t understand what?s happening? How does it make us feel? What do the underlying themes have to say about us? That?s what?s really important, not this whole insistence on understanding exactly what happens and why. Now there is a whole new ... More About: Movie , Entertainment , Reviews , Breaking News , Celebrity News
Review: ?Sketches Of MD Live at the iridium featuring Pharoah Sanders?
2008-09-08 22:26:00 Artist: Kenny Garrett CD: Sketches Of MD Live at the iridium featuring Pharoah Sanders Label: Mack Avenue Records Release Date: 9-23-08 We live in a time where you can get twenty five cuts on a CD and only three will be worth listening too. In a time where truly creative music or musicians find it hard if ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Review
Movie Review: Baby Mama
2008-09-08 19:50:00 I think Tina Fey is outrageously attractive. She?s pretty, she wears glasses, she has a self-deprecating sense of humor and she?s incredibly smart. What?s not to be attracted to? I know some people don?t think she?s good looking at all, which is nothing short of crazy. I might not always be wild about her television ... More About: Baby , Movie , Entertainment , Reviews , Breaking News
Movie Review: Families Of Costa Rica
2008-09-08 18:28:00 I like to learn about the lives of other people, particularly those who live in other places than I do. Whatever customs they have, what they eat, how they dress, what kinds of books they read, what their music sounds like, all of those things help to contribute to my understanding of what their lives ... More About: Movie , Entertainment , Reviews , Breaking News , Celebrity News
Movie Review: Alvin And The Chipmunks ? The Alvinnn!!! Edition ? 2 Disc Col
2008-09-08 16:24:00 I vaguely remember watching this show in my first few years here on Earth. I don?t remember any specifics, as it?s now all lost in that haze of nostalgia and Lunchables. What I do remember is that I enjoyed the show them, I have discovered that I enjoy it now and I think you all ... More About: Movie , Entertainment , Reviews , Breaking News , Celebrity News
Tokio Hotel: The little German band that didn?t think it could, and did any
2008-09-08 16:22:00 There is a popular saying one hears here in German y from time to time: You haven?t got a chance, use it. And although Germany?s wildly popular teeny rockers Tokio Hotel (wildly popular in Germany that is) were realistic enough not to expect winning the nomination for Best New Artist during the MTV Video Music Awards ... More About: Band , Entertainment , Celebrity News
LA Jury Awards Millions In Asbestos Compensation
2008-09-08 16:01:00 An Iranian-American engineer has received as multi million dollar compensation award from a Los Angeles jury in relation to an asbestos claim. Amanollah Shahabi has been awarded nearly fifteen million dollars by the jury after it was found that he had been exposed to deadly asbestos, which led to him developing the asbestos related ... More About: Awards , Millions , Compensation
Sarah Palin: The Modern Feminist Ideal
2008-09-08 14:06:00 Ms. Steinem: That chromosome AK Gov. Sarah Palin and NY Sen. Hilary Clinton share is the same one that you and Palin - and all women - share as well. But it is Palin ? whom Cindy McCain described as a ?reform-minded … hockey-mommin’ … basketball shootin’ … moose huntin’ … fly-fishin’ … pistol-packing … ... More About: Modern , Ideal , Feminist
Questions raised about that ?cancer vaccine?
2008-09-08 13:42:00 I support giving girls the new vaccine to prevent infections by some strains of the Human Papilloma virus (AKA Warts) that is associated with cervical cancer in women. But at the time the vaccine was released, it’s use almost became a crusade: Some states even mandated young girls receive the very expensive vaccine, and parents who ... More About: Breaking News , Questions , Cancer , Vaccine , Science News
Will the world end on Wednesday? Black Holes, Quarks, leptons and the Higg
2008-09-08 12:56:00 While the rest of us go about our daily business, maybe worrying about our mortgages, the elections or perhaps even global warming, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will conduct a multi-billion experiment that critics say could create a black hole right here on earth that will destroy the world. Unless an urgent appeal ... More About: World , Science News , Black , The World , Wednesday
Surviving Volatility
2008-09-08 06:12:00 Markets in the past month have been whipsawing back and forth, this volatility has caused a lot of investors to retreat to cash until the markets show some direction. While this may be a prudent play if you are a day trader, it is not if you are a long term investor. Here are 5 ... More About: Asset Allocation
Palin is Scaring the Pantsuits Off of Traditional Feminism
2008-09-08 03:14:00 In the wake of recent events, also known as the introduction to pit bulls wearing lipstick, it has become quite clear that there is a hidden form of feminism living in this very country. It is not the in-your-face type of pro-choice mantra that receives the media?s undying love?quite the opposite, in fact. It is ... More About: Feminism , Traditional
Search For Caylee Anthony Called Off Temporarily
2008-09-08 03:03:00 High water from the storm is causing a problem for the search led by Texas Equusearch for little Caylee Anthony . The director of the search team, Tim Miller said the suspension of the search is only temporary. They will return to the search to find Caylee as soon as the conditions improve. Miller said that he ... More About: Search , Florida News
Book Review: Brocabulary Coming in October
2008-09-08 00:46:00 Hey all… When I saw the cover of Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk, I was intrigued. When I see the term “bro,” I now think of two different things. The first is fraternities, of which I was never involved with in college. The second is the character Dean from the G4 TV show Code ... More About: United States , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
DVD Review: Fist of Legend, available Sept. 9
2008-09-07 23:43:00 Hi all… It was my pleasure recently to watch Fist of Legend in its Two-Disc Ultimate Edition from Dragon Dynasty. This 1994 film starring Jet Li and Chin Siu-Ho teams them with a brilliant fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping (who also choreographed Tai Chi Master and The Matrix), for a brilliant combination of story and martial arts ... More About: Reviews , China , Movie Reviews , Jackie Chan , Review
Book Review: Hunting The American Terrorist by Terry D. Turchie & Kathleen
2008-09-07 20:57:00 Written by Terry D. Turchie and Dr. Kathleen M. Puckett this book chronicles the hunt for several American terrorists. Unlike traditional terrorists who operate in cells and therefore by sheer numbers could make mistakes leading to their capture, the American terrorist proceeds as a “lone wolf.” Folks like Theodore Kaczynski better known as the “Unabomber” ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
I Was Sick and You Visited Me
2008-09-07 11:54:00 How often do you read the story of ordinary people who go out of their way helping other ordinary folks in need? Nope, better to repeat the latest rumor and vilify anyone not in our own group, whether it be right wingnuts or leftwing moonbats. Yet these stories happen all the time, and perhaps in these days ... More About: Sick
Election Season Opens in Germany
2008-09-07 11:22:00 I can?t really agree with Chancellor Merkel when she announced on Friday that “We’re dealing with a coalition partner that’s becoming increasingly unreliable.” Her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners are no more unreliable now than they have been in the past, and that?s the real problem. But Merkel knows this better than anyone, she only ... More About: Germany , Season , Election
Governor Palin Plays Watergate With Trooper Investigation
2008-09-07 04:25:00 In a bit of political skulduggery that would make Richard Nixon proud. Governor Sarah Palin tore a page from the Nixon administration’s election play book. She is attempting to delay the Alaska legislature from conducting an investigation into claims she violated ethical and personnel regulations, so much for her reformist claim of a transparent, ethical ... More About: Investigation , Plays , Watergate , Trooper
OJ Simpson The Saga Continues ? Hot Rumors And Speculation
2008-09-07 01:50:00 Next Monday sees the start of the next OJ Simpson trial, while this one may not quite have the idiocy factor of the first murder trial it is still set to offer some interesting entertainment. Even though the case has yet to start the lawyers are bickering away behind the scenes. Co-defendant Clarence ?CJ? Stewart is ... More About: Celebrity News , Rumors , OJ Simpson , Saga
Book Review: Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
2008-09-06 23:33:00 Two years after Katrina ripped apart New Orleans, Clete and Dave and his family are spending the summer in Montana. The “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” are far older these days physically and mentally and both are in deep mourning. Not only in regards to their lives and the choices they have made or had forced ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
Jane Fonda ? Some Crib Notes for the Governor
2008-09-06 22:20:00 Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, It has been over a week since the poopy-doo hit the fan over the impending induction of antiwar activist Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane to The California Museum’s Hall of Fame. Quite frankly, I thought by now your office would have issued a statement to the effect that upon further consideration, the decision ... More About: Notes , Crib
Does Caylee Anthony?s Grandfather Have Something To Hide?
2008-09-06 22:18:00 As everyone that has been following the story about the disappearance of then 2 year old Caylee Anthony , knows what a bizarre story this has turned out to be. Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony has recently been released yet again from The Orange County jail and is back at home wearing her ankle monitor, being pampered ... More About: Florida News , Grandfather , Hide
Democrats Throw 12,000 American Flags Into The Garbage
2008-09-06 19:45:00 In a staggering act of political and environmental insensitivity, the Democratic Party threw 12,000 American flags left over from their convention in Denver into the garbage during the cleanup of Invesco Field, where Barack Obama spoke before a flag-waving crowd. According to a Denver Post blogger, the flags were en route to a landfill when one ... More About: Democrats , Garbage , Throw
John Edwards: Andrew Young a Deadbeat Dad?
More articles from this author:2008-09-06 19:25:00 John Edwards ’ Scandal/Cover-up News: John Edwards - Rielle Hunter Fred Baron - Andrew Young - Frances Quinn Hunter AP covers Sarah Palin’s picture of a caribou kill and has not time for Edwards’ operative Andrew Young and his lack of child support for Rielle Hunter’s daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter. Where is Gloria Allred? Where are all the child advocates? Who speaks ... More About: John Edwards , John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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