Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Pretty incredible photos of a tornado outside Los Angeles in Riverside.Read the full story
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Clinton cited that Robert Kennedy wasn't assassinated until June as a reason she is staying in the race for now. In other words, she is staying in the race just in case Obama is assassinated. This, just one week after Mike Huckabee joked to NRA conference attendees that someone aimed ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Here's my way: based on my read of NBC's delegate math, I think if the Clinton campaign won 100% of what they wanted on the Florida and Michigan dispute, Obama could still clinch the nomination -- even according to the most pro-Clinton math -- if 90 of the remaining 210-or-so ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Flip flop: Republican presidential candidate John McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of an influential Texas televangelist after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
"We are trying to understand the ramifications of this congressional farm bill foul-up. We haven't found a precedent for a congressional blunder of this magnitude," said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman. "It looks like it may be back to square one for them."Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I'm happy to report that he hasn't, not by a long shot. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is an absolute triumph, and a picture-perfect tribute to one of cinema's great action franchies. It's also a little deeper than that, too, pleasing fans with self-referential wry humour ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Rebuffing associates who have suggested that she end her candidacy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has made it clear to her camp in recent days that she will stay in the race until June because she believes she can still be the nominee - and, barring that, so she can depart ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Score one good review for Indy 4!
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Britain said Tuesday that it is granting asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who fears that he could face execution if forced to return to his homeland.Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
CNN is reporting that oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to invest billions of dollars in what will probably be the world's largest wind farm. It will eventually generate 4 gigawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes. The first 600 GE wind turbines are scheduled for delivery in 2010. ...
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