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WASHINGTON, D.C.—“It’s 9 a.m., and President Biden is perfectly alive and breathing,” read yet another press release from the White House. Most people find it reassuring to know the president isn’t dead. Yet the hourly, completely unprompted assurances that Biden has not died are starting to have the opposite effect on people. “I don’t usually spend a lot of time worrying that the president is dead,” said Washington D.C. citizen Tony Underwood, “but the constant statements from the White House have got me on edge.” Underwood pointed particularly to a recent one that said, “Biden is alive, but we can’t...

As we read in Ecclesiastes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Based on recent examples, this also applies to politicians’ press releases about government "economic development" programs and projects. Reviewing past and recent examples from both the Granholm and Snyder administrations is also a reminder that for the bipartisan political class, "economic development" appears to mean little more than a long-running and tiresome public relations campaign that perpetually recycles the same old routines. One of them goes like this: The administration announces a top official...

The scientific journal Nature has corrected a press release and is considering whether to add further information to an article published last week reporting that human embryonic stem cells could be generated without destroying an embryo. The article has political consequences because destruction of embryos, which is unavoidable with present methods, is the main stated objection of many who oppose embryonic stem cell research. The journal’s action follows numerous news reports on the article and criticism from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which pointed out that embryos used in the research were being destroyed, a fact made clear...

The liberal media have been screaming about federal departments or agencies sponsoring or buying news here and abroad. But they were strangely silent when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on December 13 that the State Department would launch an Edward R. Murrow Journalism Program to influence foreign journalists. It seems that a federal program honoring an icon of the liberal media is considered an acceptable mix of journalism and state. The Rice announcement buys into the myth perpetuated by the George Clooney movie, "Good Night and Good Luck," that Murrow, a CBS journalist who became director of the U.S....

Where can one find the actual press releases or speaches that Kerry gave in Feb 1998 and also in 1997 on Iraq regime change and WMD. He was very outspoken then about what Clinton should have done and I am not sure why the Bush Supporters are not using this info yet. I use the word yet as I'm sure its coming. Hopefully.

<p>LOS ANGELES — Getting together with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn to chat about their movie The Banger Sisters is like eavesdropping on a conversation between women who have been best friends since childhood.</p> <p>Seated next to each other on a couch in Hawn's hotel suite, they giggle as they talk about their families. Sarandon tells Hawn how she wishes her daughter, Eva Amurri, 17, would date Goldie's son Wyatt, 16. They recall a time not long ago when Sarandon and her family stayed in Hawn's L.A. home with her family while Sarandon's beau, Tim Robbins, was doing theater. And suddenly the topic shifts to fish. "Did I tell you Kurt bought a boat?" Goldie asks before describing how Kurt Russell and her son Oliver Hudson boated up the coast to Vancouver in record time and the salmon they caught.</p>