Free Republic

No official announcement yet, but as a radio insider, I can tell you that Mike Huckabee will replace Paul Harvey's News & Comment starting Monday, March 23rd. ABC's Gill Gross and Doug Limerick have been doing the show for the last two weeks.

SEMA is opposing an effort by some Washington lawmakers to include a national car crushing program in the upcoming economic stimulus package. Vehicles targeted for the scrap pile will likely include Chevy Blazers, Silverados, S-10s and Tahoes; Dodge Dakotas and Rams; Ford Explorers and F-Series; Jeep Cherokees and Wranglers; and any other SUV or truck that obtains less than 18 mpg.

After weeks of speculation in the international media over whether bodies are indeed buried at a former Death Valley hide-out for Charles Manson and his followers, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Department has decided to launch an official investigation. The Sheriff’s Department will, nevertheless, proceed cautiously. “What we’ve determined after a careful review of all of the recent data that has been provided to us, following those trips out to Barker Ranch by laboratory scientists, professors and some highly-trained search dogs,” Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said, “is that there’s reason enough to look for more scientific indicators of potential burial...

Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday in Wellington. He was 88.