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George Clooney Arrested At Sudan Protest 3:24pm UK, Friday March 16, 2012 Police have arrested George Clooney during a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington DC. The actor, who is president of United to End Genocide, was arrested along with several Democrat politicians and other human rights and faith leaders for civil disobedience. The campaigners were protesting the humanitarian emergency that is reportedly threatening the lives of 500,000 people. After speaking on the steps of the embassy to hundreds of activists, members of Congress and activist leaders were asked by police to leave the scene. When they refused, police...

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Christie repeats Palin criticism of being too scripted. Chris Christie surprised some conservatives only a few days ago when he alleged that Sarah Palin would never be president because of her tendency not to go unscripted in media appearances. He also surprised conservatives when he heaped praise on Barack Obama’s Tucson speech at the same time. Yesterday while he was being interviewed by Chris Wallace, Christie confirmed again that he still feels that Palin is doing herself a disservice by avoiding unscripted moments with the media. His reasoning is that she will hurt her chances...

To the uninitiated, the boysenberry may look like a big, blowzy, underripe blackberry, but it is in fact a noble fruit, as distinct from a common blackberry as a thoroughbred is from a mule. Large, dark purple, juicy and intense, it derives its unique flavor from its complex ancestry: sweetness and floral aroma from its raspberry grandmother, and a winy, feral tang from three native blackberry species. It's a California classic, emblematic of the joys of growing up in the Southland before it succumbed completely to sprawl. And it's all the more precious, despite its near extinction in this state,...

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Anyone else notice that Michelle didn't Thank her Mom in her speech? Didn't hear any of the pundits comment on this last night. All it would have taken was six words, Thank You Mom, I Love You. Opportunity of a lifetime to honor the person who raised and cared for you, gave you a great video intro, and you missed it. Shame on you Michelle.

As Nevada comes into the final 60 days before its presidential caucuses, this question looms: Will the candidates submit themselves to tough questions from the Review-Journal, the state's largest newspaper? The answer, dear Las Vegans, is ... probably ... but they'd prefer not to. Presidential candidates parachute into Las Vegas weekly. But they don't come here intending to actually answer questions. They drop by a school or a union hall for carefully planned rallies. Pictures are taken, safe questions from safe questioners get safe answers, the candidates smile ... and then they're gone. Here's the secret everyone knows: Presidential campaigns...

Seven Democratic presidential hopefuls are scheduled to gather at UNLV's Cox Pavilion this evening for another debate. The event is sponsored by the Democratic National Committee and will be aired live on CNN and KLAS-TV, Channel 8. Despite the appearance of spontaneity, it will be a highly scripted affair in terms of who is allowed to ask what of the candidates. That's unfortunate. (See our lead letter to the editor, at right.) Voters, regardless of their political affiliation, deserve honest answers to pressing issues, not rehearsed responses to pre-determined queries. For instance, it would be instructive to watch the Democratic...

WASHINGTON — The pressure will be on Senator Clinton at the Democratic presidential debate tomorrow as she tries to bounce back from a weak performance last month that has cut into her lead in the polls. Her top rivals, Senator Obama and John Edwards, head into the Las Vegas forum confident that their increased criticism in recent weeks finally has begun to inflict damage on Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which had seemed unstoppable earlier in the fall. Messrs. Obama and Edwards have painted her as a creature of a corrupt corporate culture in Washington who is more concerned about her political...

An Iowa college student pulled back the curtain on Hillary Clinton's stage-managed campaign stops..... Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff said a Clinton staffer produced a binder with about eight questions. "The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she said. "It noted 'college student' in brackets and then the question." Clinton's staffer approached her..... Gallo-Chasanoff said she proposed a question about comparing Clinton's energy plan.... "I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer told her, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans." Gallo-Chasanoff says the Clinton camp tried to get her to keep quiet.......a staffer called...

"Democratic Presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, following a campaign stop at a United Auto Workers regional conference at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa, Monday, Nov. 12, 2007."

Rivals rip Clinton's use of planted questions BY MARTIN C. EVANS | martin.evans@newsday.com 9:31 PM EST, November 10, 2007 DES MOINES - Hillary Rodham Clinton, who came to Iowa Saturday for a critical pre-caucus gathering of 9,000 Democratic Party loyalists, found herself fending off criticism from her presidential rivals for using planted questions during at least two campaign appearances, including one earlier this week at an Iowa biodiesel plant. John Edwards said the Clinton campaign's use of a planted question was deceptively inconsistent with a free democracy, and likened the practice to past campaign appearances by President George W. Bush,...

Hillary in Aviary ("It's the bluebird--I know that" birdbrain + fraud)     by Mia T, November 2000, sometime before "the first Tuesday after the first Monday" "Bird of paradise" would have been a brilliant wrong answer for the New-York-state-bird question; in one fell swoop it would have flattered the necessary constituency, rendered hillary's cheating marginally believable and suggested a quick, secure, creative mind. But the obsessively perfectionistic dodo wasn't able to fake even one wrong answer in the Letterman phony "pop quiz," a nostalgic electuary of "Twenty-One" fraud and (Groucho) Marxist left-wing crow. Instead, this documented incompetent with...

TOTAL RECALL Calif. debate not that scripted But tough for Schwarzenegger to avoid advance viewing By Russ Britt, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 6:02 PM ET Sept. 10, 2003 LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - The most anticipated debate of California's recall election is not as scripted as you might think, say the event's sponsors. And Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to avoid taking questions in advance may not actually be as heroic as he'd hoped it would appear. Why? It's not that Schwarzenegger and the other four top-ranked candidates are supposed to get questions for the debate in advance. Heck, everyone will get the questions...