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...The following 23 players were called into the United States squad for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand... ...FWD Megan Rapinoe 37...

Excerpts... Two days after Payton Gendron allegedly went on a shooting spree at a grocery store, killing 10 people and injuring three – most of whom were Black – Cheney took to Twitter to point a finger at her fellow Republicans... "The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse," Cheney posted. "@GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them."

For years, Republican candidates have been assured by their political consultants that amnesty is a runaway hit with the public. Then they always come in for a zinger of a surprise when the American people are finally able to express themselves on the subject. (Sometimes it seems as if political consultants are in the game only to make money.)

Make no mistake: The president couldn’t care less about the plight of Syrians, the 1,500 gassed to death — including nearly 500 children. It’s all about 2014. Win the House, reign supreme.

Vice President Joe Biden is going home to Delaware. The updated White House calendar for Aug. 17 reports that “in the morning, the Vice President will meet with senior advisers. Later, the Vice President will be in Wilmington, Delaware.” Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/16/biden-sent-home-by-the-boss/#ixzz23mUW6rcu

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson says he didn't hold back his vote on health care legislation just to get more money for his state, "but to fix the unfunded Medicaid mandate for all states."

Time Inc. is gathering U.S. magazine publishers to start a jointly run digital newsstand next year that would deliver their titles to mobile devices like increasingly popular electronic book readers. ---------------- snippity snip ------------------------

SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive healthcare problems. - - - Snippity-snip - - -

An organization of President Barack Obama's supporters has issued an urgent call for donations to battle "swiftboaters" over health care reform. ... the e-mail states: "We knew health care reform would face fierce opposition -- and it's begun. As we speak, the same people behind the notorious "swiftboat" ads of 2004 are already pumping millions of dollars into deceptive television ads. Their plan is simple: torpedo health care reform before it sees the light of day by scaring the public and distorting the President's approach. -------------- snippity snip --------------------

The White House registered disapproval Monday in reaction to a comedienne's joke, during at a gala dinner featuring President Barack Obama, that called Rush Limbaugh a Sept. 11 hijacker. (snip-snip)

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't saying no to taking on Sen. Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat, according to a report in SFGate.com. Asked by a San Francisco Chronicle reporter at a recent Commonwealth Club of California appearance whether he ruled out a U.S. Senate run, the former action star said, “I have my hands full with all the stuff I’m doing now,” he said, referring to his ongoing budget crisis. “I’m concentrating on that and not what I’m going to do next. You know, I’m not a politician. I’m a public servant.” (See link for full article)

My dear FRiends, please allow me this rare vanity to suggest a new word for our lexicon, it’s a compound noun used as a verb, and its meaning and application are instantly apparent. Media-boat, or mediaboat, v. (t) –verb (used with object), -boat•ed, -boat•ing. -to use print, broadcast, or online falsehoods to destroy or harm in the most treacherous and vicious ways available to the media: to assassinate a person's character, esp a politically prominent conservative or popular person via the journalistic or entertainment media. -to conspire clandestinely to act as a media agent for one political party and against...

An Audit Bureau of Circulation report to be issued Monday is expected to show that magazines across the board suffered from poor newsstand sales in the first half of 2008. CoMag Marketing Group, a national magazine distributor owned by Hearst-Condé Nast LLC, has put out a report that includes results of a survey of more than 2,000 magazine titles’ first-half performance, according to the New York Post’s “Media Ink” columnist Keith J. Kelly.

The Berkeley City Council attempted to make nice with U.S. Marines recruiters early today by taking back a letter it planned to send calling the Corps 'uninvited and unwelcome intruders' in the city.

The growing conventional wisdom (in military circles) is that Kerry GOT a discharge but it was other than honorable. He subsequently got Clinton to sign the fix in 2001.