Mayo on McCain’s Cheek… AP News has more: Candidate, who has suffered from skin cancer in past, saw doctor today.
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I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the tragedy at a Universalist Unitarian church in Knoxville yesterday. The first paragraph from Knoxville News -Sentinel says it all:
Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church [...]
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George W. Bush has screwed our nation in more ways than most of us can keep track of. The news today on the projected deficit that Bush will leave behind is a jaw dropper:
Bush would leave a record $482 billion deficit to his successor, a sobering turnabout in the nation’s fiscal condition from 2001, when [...]
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NBC News notes that Sen. Barack Obama is joined in Washington, D.C. today by top aides David Plouffe, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs. In addition, his vice presidential search team leaders, Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, are also in D.C. today.
Could a decision on Obama’s running mate be near?
“The convergence of all the senior staff [...]
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Robert Novak, the conservative syndicated Chicago Sun-Times columnist announced today that “he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor but says that, “God willing,” he plans to be back at work soon.” Sad news…
Novak said he was diagnosed Sunday with a tumor and will soon begin treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
He issued the following [...]
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There’s a trailer clip available from Oliver Stone’s upcoming George W. Bush biography, starring Josh Brolin (”No Country for Old Men”) as George W., and James Cromwell as Bush 41. Ellen Burstyn plays Barbara Bush and Richard Dreyfuss is cast as Dick Cheney:
H/T to The Swamp who also links to this “interview with Stone about the film from Entertainment [...]
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Now that Barack Obama is back in the U.S., after his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe, he’s ready to start focusing on the “top issue for American voters — the faltering U.S. economy.”
That’s welcome news, because every one I speak to from friends to business associates are all concerned with economic issues. As [...]
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