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NBC News is asked to set record straight on ?deceitful? editing
2008-05-20 14:50:00 NEW YORK - The White House on Monday called on NBC News to set the record straight on “deceitful” editing of an interview with President Bush, in which correspondent Richard Engel asks whether comments about the president of Iran were directed at Barack Obama . Bush aides were angered by how the president’s answer was portrayed when ... More About: Politics , George Bush
Louisiana Guard Brigade returning to Iraq
2008-05-19 22:00:00 NOLA.com - The Defense Department today announced it has alerted Louisiana’s 256th Brigade Combat Team to prepare for a second tour in Iraq . The brigade, which has about 3,800 soldiers assigned to subordinate units statewide, including nearly 400 in New Orleans, is expected to deploy in spring 2009, according to the Defense Department. Overall, about 14,000 Guardsmen ... More About: Military , Honor , Army National Guard , Deployment
Obama tells Tenn.?s GOP: ?Lay off my wife?
2008-05-19 16:13:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.” Obama, his party’s presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, were asked in an interview aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about an online video last week by the state’s GOP taking her to task for a comment some ... More About: Politics , Michelle Obama
Parents to Sue Maker of Metal Baseball Bats Over Son?s Injury
2008-05-19 08:19:00 WAYNE, N.J. ? A New Jersey couple, whose son was struck in the chest with a line drive, is planning to sue the maker of a metal baseball bat used in the game. Two years ago, Steven Domalewski was pitching when the ball slammed into his chest and stopped his heart. He was resuscitated but now ...
Join us or die, drug kingpins warn Mexican police
2008-05-19 01:22:00 CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO ? Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die. The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, ... More About: Politics , Illegal Immigration , Cain , Obama , War on Drugs
Obama warns seniors on Social Security threats
2008-05-19 00:01:00 GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama told seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security that they and millions like them depend on because he supports privatizing the program. Obama turned to a bedrock, pocketbook issue as he spoke to about 130 people at an assisted living facility and sought to tie ... More About: Politics , Business , Retirement , Health Care
UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid
2008-05-18 19:41:00 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A senior U.N. envoy went to Myanmar Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, as a British minister suggested the isolationist regime may be relenting. John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu at the start of ... More About: United Nations , World News , Dictatorship , Burma
Bush lectures Arab world on political reform, women?s rights
2008-05-18 18:06:00 SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - President Bush lectured the Arab world Sunday about everything from political repression to the denial of women’s rights but ran into Palestinian complaints he is favoring Israel in stalled Mideast peace talks. “Freedom and peace are within your grasp,” Bush said despite scant signs of progress. Winding up a five-day trip ... More About: Islam , Middle East , George Bush , Muslims
Obama Mentor Ted Kennedy?s Anti-Gun Career
2008-05-17 19:30:00 Obama Mentor Ted Kennedy?s Anti-Gun Career by: Chris W. Cox NRA-ILA Executive Director The man who has cast more anti-gun votes than any other lawmaker in U.S. history has endorsed a candidate for president. On Jan. 28, Sen. Ted Kennedy formally, and to great fanfare, bestowed his political blessing on Sen. Barack Obama. As he basked in ... More About: Liberals , Guns , Amendment , Obama , Massachusetts
Saturdays Short List
2008-05-17 18:15:00 BREAKING: BOSTON (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was hospitalized Saturday after suffering stroke-like symptoms, according to a knowledgeable official. There was no immediate word on his condition. The official who provided the information declined to be identified by name, citing the sensitivity of the events. Full Story Here: Sen. Kennedy hospitalized with symptoms of stroke CONFLUENCE, Pa. ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Crime , Opinion
Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day
2008-05-17 07:09:00 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same ... More About: Crime , Crime and Punishment
McCain Faces the NRA
2008-05-16 23:00:00 John McCain has had a rocky relationship with the National Rifle Association over the years, with his support for closing the gun show loophole at the top of the organization’s list of grievances and his shepherding of campaign finance reform a close second. On Friday McCain addresses the NRA’s annual convention in Louisville. Perhaps the ... More About: Guns , Amendment , Gun Control
Cartoonist arrested for ?insulting people?
2008-05-16 20:00:00 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday. The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws and held overnight before being released, a spokeswoman for ... More About: Islam , Hypocrisy , Political Correctness , Insults
Bush asks Saudis to increase oil production
2008-05-16 17:20:00 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - President Bush is appealing to oil-rich Saudi Arabia to increase production just as oil prices have hit another record high. As U.S. consumers cope with rising prices at the gas pump, Bush is on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia for another burst of diplomacy with King Abdullah. When the two met ... More About: Politics , Terrorism , Economy , Iraq , George Bush
California?s top court legalizes gay marriage
2008-05-16 03:15:00 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California’s Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation’s biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. Same-sex couples could tie the knot in as little as a ... More About: Lesbian , Gay Marriage
McCain outlines vision of Iraq victory
2008-05-15 22:17:00 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals. The Republican presidential contender, in a mystical speech that also ... More About: Politics , Bush
Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
2008-05-15 16:40:00 JERUSALEM (AP) - President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today’s oppression, restrictions on freedom and extremist Muslim movements. Delivering this rosy forecast for the Middle East in ... More About: Islam , Peace , Democratic , Christians
HANNITY: Obama, Wright GAY Relationship
2008-05-15 02:01:00 HANNITY: Obama , Wright GAY Relationship Nationally Syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity , continued his commitment of the “Stop Obama Express”, by providing a forum for Pastor James David Manning, of ATLAH World Ministries, to launch yet another unsubstantiated and slanderous attack against Senator Obama (D-IL). The most recent allegation leveled against the candidate [Obama] is ...
US probing Iraqi companies for insurance fraud
2008-05-14 23:13:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Companies working on Iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, leading to a criminal probe and hurried changes in the way many contracts are handled by the U.S. Army, according to internal military documents obtained by The Associated Press. The investigation of two companies located in Tikrit ... More About: Insurance , Fraud , Iraqi
Afghan Teacher Killed After Speech Condemning Homicide Bombings
2008-05-14 17:56:00 KABUL, Afghanistan ? A teacher was shot to death in northern Afghanistan after he gave a speech condemning homicide bombings, officials said Wednesday. Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islam ic and un-Afghan during a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair Mohammad Subat, the provincial education department director. Hadi spoke at a gathering ... More About: War On Terror , Terrorism , Israel
Blast toll in Indian city rises to 80
2008-05-14 15:50:00 JAIPUR, India - A series of bomb blasts across the ancient Indian city of Jaipur killed at least 80 people and turned busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage, police said Wednesday. A.K. Jain, additional director-general of state police, said 20 people succumbed to their injuries overnight, raising the death ... More About: City , Blast , Toll
McCain on ANWR
2008-05-14 04:59:00 This piece was posted here: McCain on ANWR by one of my blog readers and comment makers, a great guy that is also a member of The American Conservative Forums, great post BobF, and way too close to the real deal I am afraid… Last week, Bill O?Reilly interviewed John McCain on the O?Reilly Factor. Bill ... More About: Politics , Humor
Pastor Hagee apologizes for anti-Catholic remarks
2008-05-14 00:34:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having “emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews.” Hagee’s support for McCain has drawn cries of outrage from some Catholic ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Hitler , Opinion
Lawmakers want to end oil shipments to US reserve
2008-05-13 16:04:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a barrel, President Bush ought to stop buying crude for the government emergency reserve. Both the House and Senate are expected to approve, with bipartisan support, legislation Tuesday directing Bush ... More About: News , Politics , Business , Economy
Marine Corps Meets 142 Percent of Recruiting Goal in April
2008-05-13 06:07:00 WASHINGTON ? The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month and could eventually be more than a year ahead of schedule in its plan to grow the force to 202,000 members. All military services met or exceeded their monthly recruiting goals in April , with the Marine Corps signing 142 percent of the number it ... More About: News , Commentary , Military , Recruiting
Ex-State officials allege corruption cover up
2008-05-12 23:09:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraq i government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary
Death toll in China earthquake up to nearly 9,000
2008-05-12 20:12:00 CHONGQING, China (AP) - One of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China on Monday, killing nearly 9,000 people, trapping about 900 students under the rubble of their school and causing a toxic chemical leak, state media reported. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated a hilly region of small cities and towns in Sichuan and nearby provinces. ... More About: News , Commentary , Earthquake , Opinion
53 illegal immigrants held against will in Phoenix
2008-05-12 17:08:00 PHOENIX (AP) ? Fifty-three illegal immigrants were held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said. The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders said. Authorities began investigating Saturday after getting ... More About: News , Commentary , Illegal Immigration , Phoenix , Crime
Have you ever wondered what Santa does in the SUMMER??
2008-05-12 06:28:00 Have you ever wondered what Santa does in the SUMMER?? Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1173/trackb ack/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftexasfred.net%2Farchives%2F 1173'; addthis_title = 'Have+you+ever+wondered+what+Santa+does+i n+the+SUMMER%3F%3F'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Summer
The Ebonics Word of the Day?
More articles from this author:2008-05-12 06:03:00 Today’s Ebonic Word of the Day is from the Louisiana Public School System – OMELETTE Let’s use it in a sentence: “I oughta pop yo ass fo what you jus did, but omelette dis one slide.” Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1172/trackb ack/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftexasfred.net%2Farchives%2F 1172'; addthis_title = 'The+Ebonics+Word+of+the+Day%26%238230%3B '; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Word of the Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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