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One of the presidential nominating season's most unusual ideas was proposed again Tuesday, this time by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, when Sen. Joseph Biden advocated a "unity" ticket of Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain.

Anybody watch the press conference? Reports I found with Google news search says it was pretty much a bomb, with more blurry pictures, sketchy DNA evidence, and promises of yet more experts reviewing the data in coming weeks. Sounds like they're lying out of there piehole and it is a fraud. Today was their chance to provide positive, absolute, undeniable evidence. And it doesn't seem to be there.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An explosion in the house of a Hamas militant killed him and wounded 16 of his relatives and neighbors, health officials said Saturday. Doctors say two are in critical condition. The Palestinian Interior Ministry says it's investigating the cause of the blast at the home of Hamas activist Nader Abu Shaban. Hamas officials say Abu Shaban was handling explosives just before the blast.

We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess. The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini. Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a...

Carter's comments came after he met with the top Hamas leaders last week in Syria. Carter also says Hamas won't undermine Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to reach a peace deal with Israel. He says Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Carter made the comments during a speech in Jerusalem.

West Virginia Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller was being interviewed the editorial board of the Charleston Gazette. During that interview he uttered this gem: "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they (the missiles) get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues." First of all ... I rather seriously doubt that our military was using laser-guided bombs during the Vietnam War. Also, the aircraft that McCain was flying in Vietnam was not...

I have been bugged out with the flu, and as a result I've seen a lot of the commentary — including, of course, "expert" commentary, which has been something less than expert. The general approach of the federal law to prostitution mimics its approach to gambling. They are activities that tend to generate big profits for organized crime syndicates, which profits not only enrich the racketeers but underwrite their various other rackets, including loan-sharking, narcotics trafficking, murder-for-hire, etc. In Governor Spitzer's case, moreover, it's worth remembering the Nevada senator character in Godfather II who is blackmailed into doing the Corleones'...

Teen In Critical Condition After Cough Medicine OverdosePOSTED: 6:25 pm EST February 27, 2008 UPDATED: 8:22 pm EST February 27, 2008 TAYLOR, Mich. -- Some teenagers in Taylor are using some over-the-counter medications to get a dangerous high. A 17-year-old is in intensive care after he tried to get high by drinking cough medicine. Timathy Berczel said he lives with guilt and hopes to stop what has become a dangerous trend among teenagers. Berczel was there Tuesday when his friend took an excessive amount of cough medicine to get high. "I really did not know he took that much from...

Kate Drew with bandaged head puts on a brave face after the attack A British teacher's trip to Africa turned to horror - when a lion leapt on her from behind and clamped its jaws round her head. As she was dragged to the ground, Kate Drew screamed in pain as the animal's teeth sank into her. To add to her terror, two other lions were prowling not far away, waiting to pounce. Luckily, tour guides were nearby and they tackled the 400lb animal, wrestling it away from her and saving her from more serious injury or death. She was...

The former counterterrorism officer for the Defense Logistics Agency's headquarters at Fort Belvoir pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges that he ordered official police credentials for a business associate. Edward Flanagan, who also had served as a security operations chief at the defense agency, told a co-worker that he ordered the fake credentials as gifts for “future business ventures,” according to filings in federal court in Alexandria. Flanagan, 46, faced felony charges that carry up to 15 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Under sentencing guidelines, his attorney said, he could get 33 to 41 months in prison. U.S....

Police say a Payson ambulance driver's blood-alcohol content was about three times the legal limit when he was arrested over the weekend. Todd D. Lindley, 43, had responded to a call to transport a patient to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo when he was arrested about 1 a.m., Utah County Sheriff's Lt. Darren Gilbert. Lindley allegedly picked up the ambulance at the city's storage building, then drove it to Mountain View Hospital. EMTs, but no patients, were on board, Gilbert said. EMTs and Mountain View staff noticed Lindley acting strangely and smelled alcohol, Gilbert said. A sheriff's deputy...

Will Smith has disappointed us in ways we could’ve never imagined. In an interview, the 39-year-old family man and former-all around good guy says he sees the good in everyone, including Adolf Hitler. "Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming,” Smith told the Daily Record. Um, yeah, except for the whole killing six million Jews thing. Will, you’ve broken our...

ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. It's the first time this election cycle a presidential campaign has launched a Web site with the express purpose of of launching serious criticisms on a rival.

Kevin Federline is through with being the bad guy, or so he says. The Fed-Ex tells Details magazine (via MSNBC) that he's glad to be getting more acting gigs, but he feels he's been typecast thus far. "I'd actually like to play somebody other than a bad guy or an ass," he says. K-Fed has been named one of the mag's "50 Most Influential Men under 45."

NEW YORK -- Whoopi Goldberg started her stint on ABC's "The View" Tuesday by coming to the defense of convicted felon Michael Vick. Just 15 minutes into the show she brought up Vick's conviction on dogfighting charges. "You know from his background this is not an unusual thing for where he comes from," said Goldberg. "There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country." Co-host Joy Behar seemed shocked at Goldberg's statements. "How about dog torture and dog murdering," Behar asked.

Last updated September 2, 2007 9:29 p.m. PT Man smashes Home Depot checkout stand with pry bar he was trying to buy By BRAD WONG P-I REPORTER Well, let's look at it this way: At least, this guy wasn't buying a blowtorch. But that age-old adage -- that patience is a virtue -- somehow slipped the mind of a man shopping at Home Depot on Utah Avenue South in Seattle on Thursday. Around 9 p.m., the man was in line at a self-service checkout stand, ready to buy a pry bar and hacksaw, according to a Seattle police report. But...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert. The early morning fire scorched about 85 percent of the structure, Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace said. Event engineers decided it would be best to dismantle it and rebuild a less elaborate version, accomplishing in two days what normally takes weeks so the figure would be finished in time for Saturday night's scheduled burning, she said. The approximately 40-foot-tall wood and neon structure...

Orlando emptied its bureau drawers and closets on Friday of more than 250 unwanted guns -- and one surface-to-air missile launcher. The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter. "I didn't know what to do with it, so I brought it here," explained the man, who said he found the missile in a shed he tore down last week. "I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it and they told me to get lost."

Denver -- Court documents show Colorado's top federal judge was too drunk to remember how he spent more than $3,000 at a strip club in two consecutive days. He also used an Internet dating service while he was married. Judge Edward Nottingham is the chief federal judge in Colorado and he is held to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Nottingham recently presided over the insider trading trial of ex-Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio. Nottingham married his wife, Marcie Jaeger, on one of the most romantic days of the year – Valentine's Day 2004. The marriage ended after...

A Pasadena man died after he accidentally walked into the side of a tanker trailer in the 9300 block of Lawndale Sunday, police said. Mack Herbert Vance III, 36, was lighting a cigarette when he hit the side of the truck trailer as the rig made a left turn onto Central from Lawndale, HPD accident investigation Off. L.C. Morrison II said today. The incident occurred at about 9:15 p.m. No charges will be filed against the truck's driver, who Morrison said was so upset at Vance's death that he wept and vomited at the scene. Vance had been dropped off...

DALLAS -- No doubt you've seen people all over the country who camped out for hours to get the hot new iPhone. So how did one local guy get the gadget AND eight crisp $100 bills to boot? FOX 4's Steve Noviello watched the money unfold. VIDEO

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Running back Quincy Wilson was charged with disorderly conduct for failing to disperse after a weekend wedding party, making him the 10th Cincinnati Bengals player arrested in the past 14 months. The former West Virginia star was with a wedding party celebrating outside a downtown bar around 3 a.m. Sunday when he and 13 others refused a police request to leave, assistant prosecuting attorney Lora Maynard said Monday. Some were charged with disorderly conduct, others with obstructing justice and underage drinking, police Lt. Hank Dial said. The running back was booked at a jail and released Sunday...

NEW YORK -- Sometimes it's not the money - but the principle. Manhattan Lawyer Sanford Young spent $10,000 on principle when he fought a $65 dollar parking ticket and won. Young got the ticket on November 29th, 2005 on First Avenue where no parking is allowed from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. He returned from dinner and found the ticket with the time 6:59 p.m. Young says he made sure he parked after 7 p.m. The city offered to reduce the fine to $43, but Young decided to appeal. An administrative law judge found him guilty. So he appealed to...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- Two teen sisters who had been reported missing in Pennsylvania were found working as prostitutes in New Jersey and police have arrested the man they say was a pimp. Casson Coward, 24, of Pleasantville was taken into custody early Friday morning at a Galloway Township hotel. Police were led to Coward after they arrested a 14-year-old for prostitution but soon learned that she and her 16-year-old sister were both listed as missing from Allentown. According to a press release from the New Jersey State Police, the 16-year-old was found by Philadelphia police at 3 a.m. at Aramingo and Cumberland...

Trucker sheers off roof driving too-big-rig length of Lincoln Tunnel NEW YORK - A truck driver whose rig was 6 inches too tall for the Lincoln Tunnel drove its entire 1.5-mile length, peeling the trailer’s roof completely and ripping off decorative ceiling tiles.Flashing signs and officers using a loudspeaker had warned the driver, and it was unclear why he didn’t heed them, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the tunnel.“He misjudged the height of the tunnel, and once he was inside it he didn’t realize the damage he was doing,” said Roy Guzman,...

Perhaps Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico and Democrat presidential candidate, and his handlers misunderstood: Candor, not cluelessness, is the new political-speak. It is the only plausible explanation they can use following his abysmal performance on "Meet the Press" last Sunday, an appearance peppered with so many apologies and I-shouldn't-have-said-thats that one might think they were at a backwoods revival. His "Meet the Press" mistakes came in every size -- big ones and small ones, even medium-sized ones: from immigration flip-flops to character flaws that reflect a propensity for exaggeration. Heck, he even flubbed his favorite baseball team. SNIP Then...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq. Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton." For members of Congress to read the report, they had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that no more than six senators and a handful of House members were logged as...

May 25, 2007, 12:57PM Photographer mauled by Yellowstone bear The Associated Press YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — A man whose face was severely mauled by a grizzly in Yellowstone National Park is a photographer and author of books about grizzlies who also had been attacked in 1993. The National Park Service said Jim Cole, 57, was hiking alone, off-trail in prime grizzly habitat Wednesday when he was attacked by a sow with a cub. He apparently was carrying pepper spray but whether he used it was unclear. Cole told rangers he walked two to three miles to seek help. Cole,...

VERNON, British Columbia, May 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian physician and writer, Dr. Ken Walker, has upset a BC family after he wrote in a column that their two conjoined baby girls ought to have been aborted to avoid being seen as “freaks of nature.”Walker, a syndicated columnist under the pen name Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, called the twins’ mother, Felicia Simms, “irrational” and suggested she should have had an abortion. Walker wrote, “Physically they are destined for ill health, lying on their backs forever. They will become obese and develop the myriad of diseases that accompany this problem. Their...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush spent the weekend in Washington where they attended the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner last night. The Washington Post described the President's appearance this way: The evening took a turn toward the somber when the President took the stage. After a videotaped message from David Letterman ("Top 10 George W. Bush Moments"), he said, "In light of this week's tragedy at Virginia Tech I've decided not to be funny." And with that he handed the lectern over to Rich Little. "I'm not here to make any political points," the veteran...

DECATUR, Ala. - Sheriff's investigators arrested and charged a Calhoun Community College instructor with making a terrorist threat against herself following the Virginia Tech massacre. Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely said Penelope Blankenship, 43, of Decatur was arrested Friday on the felony charge and released on $5,000 bond. Calhoun officials said Blankenship, a criminal justice and psychology instructor, has been placed on administrative leave. She's accused of leaving threatening voice mail messages against herself. The messages made reference to Monday's Virginia Tech massacre, saying "you next," according to a campus police report. Campus police also received a threatening phone call...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam Jones bought a full-page newspaper advertisement to print an open letter in which he promised to regain the trust of his team and fans. In the ad in the sports section of Friday's editions of The Tennessean, Nashville's daily newspaper, Jones told his family, coaches, teammates and Titans fans he must reorganize his priorities. "In the past few weeks, I have learned a lifetime of lessons," the letter states. Jones writes of hoping to not only meet, but exceed the expectations people have of him. "The first step in meeting these goals...

The further I delve into things, the more obvious the "great divide" becomes. One thing sure, the GOP has got to be the property of republicans in search of freedom, or a bunch of little mercantile pissants only concerned with making money, willing to give up everything but!

The driver of a semi flipped his load of propane gas last night near mile marker 172 in Summit County on Interstate 80 and that's only the beginning of the story for the driver of the big rig. He fled the scene and troopers say he was driving drunk. Troopers say it's amazing that there was no leak of any kind. The propane trailer pup flipped onto the median then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway of oncoming traffic. Thirty-six-year-old Jason Darrow was seven times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers of commercial vehicles. UHP says Darrow was...

University of Minnesota President Bob Bruininks announced at the university's February Board of Regents meeting that Al Gore is being considered for an honorary doctorate in climatology for his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." Considering the multitude of misleading and inaccurate assertions Gore delivered in the film, Gore is better fitted for a dunce cap.A complete list of Gore's false and misleading statements would fill an entire book, but here are some of the highlights: Gore claims Antarctic ice melt is a "canary in the coal mine" demonstrating dramatic global warming. However, more than 90 percent of Antarctica is getting...

A staff sergeant who watched as one airman attempted and another threw a small frog into a running F-16 jet engine received three months in jail and a bad conduct discharge in a Kunsan Air Base courtroom Friday night. Staff Sgt. Aaron F. Wilson, of the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, also received a reduction in rank to E-1 on three specifications of dereliction of duty. Military Judge Lt. Col. Eric Dillow sentenced Wilson to four months in jail, but the sentence was reduced due to a pretrial plea agreement. The incident was filmed using Wilson's camera and posted on his...

There was an unusual sight on the freeway today, a police car pulled over by another officer. Only Eyewitness News was there when the real police found out the man was a fake. The wannabe was caught because he turned on his siren to catch a driver who'd cut him off in traffic. But while he may have had all the equipment of a real officer, he was only impersonating one. When we drove by around lunchtime today, we could tell we needed to stop and see what was going on. It turns out the car is outfitted better than...

February 9, 2007 (by Franklin Fisher) - Two airmen - including one who pleaded guilty to trying to throw a frog into a running jet engine - were punished in separate courts-martial at Kunsan Air Base, officials there confirmed Tuesday. The other airman was punished after pleading guilty to breaking into a dorm room and stealing property. In the incident involving the frog, Senior Airman Welland Wilkerson, an aircraft maintainer, was sentenced to reduction from pay grade E-4 to E-1, 30 days in jail and a reprimand. He's assigned to the 8th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, part of Kunsan's 8th Fighter...

(2007-01-31) — Under the terms of a bill proposed today by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA, the president’s role as commander-in-chief would be “redefined for the postmodern era as collaborator in chief.” The measure comes just a day after Sen. Specter respectfully rejected President George Bush’s claim to be “the decider” on the issue of a troop surge in Iraq, saying “the decider is a shared and joint responsibility.” “The antiquated Constitutional notion that the president is in charge of the armed forces has become obsolete if ever it was true,” the senator said. “A 21st century president isn’t the sole...

An Idaho State University history professor appeared before a federal magistrate Thursday on charges he mailed an envelope to a bankruptcy trustee claiming it may contain the deadly hantavirus. Thomas Francis Hale, 61, was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury, accused of providing false information and perpetrating a hoax regarding a hazardous material, filing a false bankruptcy oath and concealment of property. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, accuses Hale of attempting to hide a home he owns in Salt Lake City near 2000 South and 1000 East from bankruptcy proceedings and lying about that ownership while under oath....

An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday. The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals. Mr. Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall,...

Amid Iraq Talk, White House Hopeful Sticks to '04 Issue in '08 Run For the roughly two dozen candidates considering a run for the White House, it is perhaps the jackpot question: What might be the winning message in a contest whose first nominating vote is still more than a year away? Today, former Sen. John Edwards begins testing his hunch that Americans, though focused now on the war in Iraq, can be won over to a campaign built on what he calls "the great moral issue of our time" -- fighting poverty at home. He plans to do so...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world has less than a decade to take decisive action in the battle to beat global warming or risk irreversible change that will tip the planet towards catastrophe, a leading climate scientist said on Tuesday. And the United States, the world' biggest polluter but major climate laggard, has a vital role to play in leading that fight, James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told Reuters on a visit to London. "The biggest problem is that the United States is not taking an active leadership role -- quite the reverse," he said. "We...

When university police officers were called to Powell Library on Tuesday night to escort a student off the premises, they used weapons which are unregulated and have largely unknown effects on the body. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old UCLA student, was hit with a Taser at least four times after he was unable to produce his BruinCard during a random check of all people in the CLICC Lab and did not leave the building promptly upon request. UCPD said in a statement that the officers resorted to the use of the Taser because Tabatabainejad refused to comply with officers' requests that...

On site report from Kristinn at a Cindy Sheehan anti war rally being held at the Independence Mall outside the Constitution Center. , Cindy said that she is determined t not only wants to see George Bush impeached but she wants to see him tried for Crimes Against Humanity. She states is so determined to see this done she says she will live for 1000 years. She went further by saying that even if she were involved in a fiery plane crash she would walk out alive just to see this done. Kristinn yelled out to her as she was...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A bomb exploded at an American fast food restaurant in the Indonesian capital on Saturday, seriously wounding a man believed to have been carrying the device. Al-Qaida-linked militants have carried out several bombings in the country in recent years. But police declined to speculate on the motive behind this blast, which comes less than two weeks before President Bush was due to visit Indonesia. Police said the bomber was “unprofessional,” indicating he was not linked to Islamic militants responsible for a string of well-organized and deadly blasts on Western targets in Indonesia since 2002. The low-explosive device...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Indiana State Police said a Kentucky police officer accidentally shot himself while driving on Interstate 65 near Lafayette over the weekend. State police said the shooting of Sullivan McCurdy, 41, of Radcliff, Ky., appeared to be accidental. Police said McCurdy was attempting to unload his pistol while driving south on I-65 near Lafayette when the gun discharged once, striking him in the leg. His wife was in the car with him. State police said McCurdy was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Lafayette, where he was listed in satisfactory condition Monday morning. McCurdy is...

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Teen Questioned for Online Bush Threats By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer Oct. 14, 2006 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense. It was too late. Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their...