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A Delta Connection flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta was canceled after an altercation between two flight attendants. According the news Web site YNN Rochester, the flight was operated by Pinnacle Airlines. YNN quoted a passenger, Steve Mazur, who said the two female attendants "got into a fistfight on the plane. The pilot decided to kick everyone off the plane.” “They told us we had to get off the plane because stewardesses were fighting,” another passenger, Corey Minton, told the Web site. A spokesman for Pinnacle Airlines said the flight attendants will be kept off the job until an investigation...

ONE OF THE RECURRING themes of press coverage of the Long War, and particularly the conflict in Iraq, is that soldiers are victims. According to this trope, soldiers and Marines are sacrificing themselves in a cause already lost, by an administration that cares little for the men and women in uniform. The proof of this last proposition was demonstrated to the media's satisfaction long ago, and confirmed for them in former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's proclamation that we went to war with the force we had rather than the one we'd liked to have. Exhibit number one in the press's...

The title and theme of a book which received one the largest advance paid to a conservative author can now be revealed: Ann Coulter's GODLESS is set for release on 6/6/06. The book -- which condemns what Coulter calls "The Church of Liberalism" -- will have a startling first printing of 500,000 copies, a publishing source tells the DRUDGE REPORT. With chapter titles such as ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD RESTED AND LIBERALS SCHEMED, and THE HOLIEST SACRAMENT: ABORTION, controversialist Coulter ups the ante in her fourth book for CROWN FORUM.

Pinnacle Probe Finding the cause of an accident often leads to a cure--and the ongoing probe of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 is highlighting the need for enhanced high-altitude training and safety management programs at regional airlines. Those shortcomings came to the fore during the NTSB's June 13-15 hearing that aimed to gather more information about the events leading to the Oct. 14, 2004, crash of a Bombardier CL600-2B19 (a.k.a. CRJ200) regional jet that resulted in the deaths of the two pilots on board. The board's findings show that on that date Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, operating as Northwest Airlink, departed...

<p>A top political adviser to Arnold Schwarzenegger serves on the board of directors of a company that owns two Nevada casinos and has interests in two Southern California card clubs that compete with casinos run by California Indian tribes.</p> <p>Schwarzenegger has made attacking tribes and their political influence a major tenet of his campaign, prompting the actor's top Republican opponent in the recall election and a tribal gaming group to raise conflict-of-interest questions about Schwarzenegger Friday. At issue is Bonnie Reiss, a longtime Schwarzenegger ally who has taken an increasingly public role in his bid to be governor.</p>