Sex in the Cities
by Roger Cohen
You can view France and the United States in various ways – antagonistic allies, intimate adversaries, estranged lovers or competing conveyors of a universal message – but whatever prism you view them through has to allow for a large measure of recurrent friction. |
Democrats want probe of McCain's finances
by CapitolHillBlue.com
The national Democratic party wants campaign finance regulators to investigate whether Sen. John McCain would violate money-in-politics laws by withdrawing from the primary election's public finance system.McCain, who had been entitled to $5.8 million in federal funds for the primary, has decided to bypass the system so he can avoid spending limits between now and the GOP's national convention in September. |
WMDS Found On "Real Time." Maher Lets Republican Talking Points Talk
by Steve Young
Say what you want about Sean Hannity, the guy can snap your argument in half from twenty paces away. I'm not saying he'd be right - after all, it's pretty difficult to remember all ten minutes of any of his loaded questions - but the guy does his homework and he uses the information so that his audience walks away feeling vindicated. |
Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Filled With World’s Seeds Comes to Life
by Pierre-Henry Deshayes
AN Arctic “doomsday vault” filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds will be inaugurated in Norway today.0224 03The vault aims to provide humankind with a Noah’s Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Matai will be among the personalities present at the inauguration of the vault, which has been carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, just 1000km from the North Pole. |
Nader Raises Specter of 2000 with Fresh White House Run
by David Usborne
The veteran consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader has formally declared an independent run for the United States presidency, further complicating a contest that has become one of the most hard-fought - and hard to predict - in modern political history. |
Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet
by Thomas Wagner
Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels.Some analysts praised the jumbo jet test flight from London to Amsterdam as a potentially useful experiment. But others criticized it as a publicity stunt and noted scientists are questioning the environmental benefits of biofuels. |
Texas Hispanics Face a Tough Choice in Primary
by Ginger Thompson
As recently as two weeks ago, Rudy Davila III, a pharmacist, was part of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political firewall, the bloc of Hispanic voters from here to the border with Mexico whom she counted on to keep her presidential campaign from collapse. But the firewall is showing signs of cracking. |
Detroit schools grad rate: 32%
by Karen Bouffard
Just 31.9 percent of Detroit students graduate in four years, according to the first major study in Michigan conducted using a method now mandated by the federal government.The study, by the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, looked at how many ninth-graders in Detroit and the state as a whole left high school with diplomas after four years. It portends what may happen in August, when Michigan releases the graduation rate for the class of 2007, which will be calculated for the first time using the same formula used by MSU researchers. |
Obama camp blasts Clinton for 'Obama in Muslim garb' photo
by Nick Juliano
When he toured several African nations 18 months ago as his presidential campaign was gearing up, Sen. Barack Obama engaged in the time-honored practice of American politicians visiting foreign countries: he was photographed wearing local garb.The photograph, taken in the summer of 2006, re-emerged Monday in this year's hotly contested presidential campaign, after a report that staffers working for Hillary Clinton sent reporters the photo, which shows Obama wearing a turban and native Kenyan clothing. |
Clinton accuses Obama of inexperience abroad
by Steve Holland
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground in the battleground U.S. states of Ohio and Texas on Monday.With a week to go until a potentially pivotal vote in the two states on March 4, the Democratic race took on an increasingly negative tone. Clinton needs big victories there to salvage her campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the November election after losing 11 straight contests to Obama. |
In exclusive interview, Alabama whistleblower says Rove trying to smear her
by Larisa Alexandrovna
Rove's attorney says CBS should apologize for storyAfter a CBS affiliate blacked out 60 Minutes in Alabama, Dana Jill Simpson, the Republican attorney from Alabama and a whistleblower in the Don Siegelman case, told RAW STORY Monday that the coordinated smear attack on her credibility by the state's GOP and the American Spectator publication are being pushed by Karl Rove – the former senior aide to President Bush – in retaliation for her revelations of his role in the investigation and conviction of Don Siegelman. |
