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Archive for November, 2006

Bill Frist Won’t Run In 2008

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under 2008 Election, Republicans

Given the lackluster performance of the GOP Senate class in the November elections, this isn’t entirely surprising, but Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced he will not run for President in 2008:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) will not run for president in 2008, according to sources close to the politician.
Frist will put out [...]

Wesley Clark Considering `08 Run

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under 2008 Election, General, Wesley Clark

No official announcement yet, but it certainly looks like former General Wesley Clark is seriously considering running for the 2008 Democratic nomination:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wesley Clark said Tuesday he wants to avoid waiting too late to make a decision on whether to run for president _ a mistake he made in his failed 2004 [...]

Jim Webb Is A Hothead

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under Politics, Virginia Politics

That’s the only conclusion I can draw from this report of his first meeting as Senator-Elect with the President of the United States:
At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia’s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have [...]

No iPod’s For North Korea

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under North Korea, iPod

Kim Jong Il’s Christmas wish list just got dealt a heavy blow:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration wants North Korea’s attention, so like a scolding parent it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.
The U.S. government’s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to [...]

Top 100 TV Catchphrases

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under Television

As part of America’s continued need to make lists, TV Land has complied a list of the Top 100 Television catchphrases:
NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it takes only a word, or just a few, to become immortalized in television history.
The TV Land cable network has compiled a list of the 100 greatest catchphrases in [...]

The Santa Shortage

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under Holiday Time

As Christmas approaches, it appears that Berlin, Germany is facing a Santa shortage:
BERLIN ? Berlin is facing an acute shortage of Santas just a month before Christmas, the head of a Father Christmas placement agency said Monday.
The director of Berlin’s “Heinzelmaennchen” agency, which provides Santas to thousands of Berlin families every Christmas Eve, said he [...]

San Diego To Jump On Anti Wal-Mart Bandwagon

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under Business, Wal-Mart

Following in the fine tradition of cities such as Chicago, it looks like San Diego is poised to jump on the anti Wal-Mart bandwagon:

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart’s potential to expand in the nation’s eighth-largest city.
The measure, approved [...]

Judge Orders Treasury To Redesign U.S. Currency

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under In The News, Legal

A Federal Judge has ordered the U.S. Treasury to redesign all U.S. paper money to make it easier for the blind to use:
A federal judge said yesterday that by keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture, the government has denied blind people meaningful access to money.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said the Treasury [...]

Sick News Story Of The Year Award

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under In The News

There really is no other way to describe this news out of Dayton,Ohio:
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A mother was arrested on suspicion of killing her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven.
China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old [...]

An Opportunity In Loss

by @ Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. Filed under 2006 Election, Congress, Politics, Republicans

Will the Republican losses in the November election reinvigorate the fiscal conservative wing of the party ? That’s what this article in The Washington Post argues:
In Congress, the minority life is mostly talk and little action, and yet for advocates of minimal spending and low taxes, that may not turn out to be so bad. [...]

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