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This evening's 7:00 PM "The Situation Room" included this exchange among Paula Zahn, Jack Cafferty and Wolf Blitzer: CAFFERTY: Well, listen, it's tailor-made for the media. We get so sick and tired of, you know, running sound bytes of the candidates that when somebody comes along and does something that's even this much out of ordinary, we pounce on it like cats on a mouse and drag it around until it's dismembered on the living room floor. ZAHN: Will it be dismembered by election night is the question, Jack Cafferty. CAFFERTY: If we have our way with it, it will...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended Bill Clinton on Wednesday over the former president's counterterrorism efforts, saying recent criticism on preventing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is wrong. Political bickering over which president _ Clinton or George W. Bush _ missed more opportunities to prevent the attacks has been escalating since Clinton gave a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday" in which he defended his efforts to kill Osama bin Laden. "The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don't think he deserves...

SOMETIMES you see a man with a short haircut, athletic build and a military bearing, and you think to yourself, "I bet that man is a Marine." With Major Pain, there is no question. You know he is a Marine. Which makes him an ideal wingman for me when it's time to confront Code Pink and friends about their rude and disrespectful treatment of our soldiers outside Walter Reed Army Hospital. SMASH and Major Pain survey the field of battle There are about a dozen or so protesters there on Friday night. On any given evening, one or two of...

The New Testament story describes Jesus walking on water in the Sea of Galilee but according to a study led by Florida State University Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof, it's more likely that he walked on an isolated patch of floating ice. The study points to a rare combination of optimal water and atmospheric conditions for development of a unique, localized freezing phenomenon that Nof and his co-authors call "springs ice." In what is now northern Israel, such ice could have formed on the cold freshwater surface of the Sea of Galilee -- known as Lake Kinneret by modern-day Israelis...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during a news conference following a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal December 9, 2005. Clinton told U.N. climate talks in Canada on Friday that the Bush administration was 'flat wrong' to reject the Kyoto accord and said cutting greenhouse gases was good for business and the planet. In an impassioned speech to hundreds of delegates and nongovernmental groups, Clinton rejected a major tenet of the Bush administration's argument for pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol emissions pact in 2001. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)

MEPs call for common EU circus policy 12.10.2005 - 17:38 CET | By Lucia Kubosova EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European parliament is set to vote on a report calling for standardised rules for circuses performing across the continent. MEPs suggest circuses should be referred to as part of Europe's cultural heritage, but they disagree on whether they should include presentation of animals or not. The report contemplating the "new challenges for the circus as part of European culture" is to be voted on Thursday (13 October). It covers three main areas: the education of children from travelling communities, health...

The San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld for "high crimes and misdemeanors." The committee, in a vote Tuesday, asks Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings based on "evidence" that the administration lied to the American people and created a false justification for going to war in Iraq. The resolution refers to the so-called Downing Street Memo – official minutes of a meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of the Bush administration – and "new leaks of British documents." The...

Senator Hagel, Senator Nelson, It has taken two days for me to have regained my composure to the point I could actually write you. You see, I've seen the unedited video of the Berg (an American) murder. Yes I watched the horrors of 9-11. I saw the Pearl (an American) murder video and the burning and gleeful dismemberment of the four security personnel (Americans). But the Berg video was staring straight into Hell. These things took their time. They used a dull knife and took 30 seconds to saw off this man's head. They waited to cut his throat so...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... vainglorious; adjective: vaingloriously; adverb 1. adj. Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful. Proceeding from vainglory. Today's word is offered up in (dis)honor of last night's Academy Awards.... Etymology: I have no idea. Good Morning Students. Welcome to class! Class is...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.ARDMORE, Okla. - Come back! they said today down at City Hall, even before Texas' AWOL lawmakers headed home. And next time bring your Republican colleagues! After providing a safe haven for 51 Texas House Democrats since Sunday, City Manager Dan Parrott was sorry to learn they'd be going soon. "Oh no!" he said when told the lawmakers holed up at the Holiday Inn intended to be back at the Texas Capitol on Friday. "We'll welcome them back any time they've got a spat down there." Parrot says money spent locally on...

Professors, students speak out against war in Iraq at teach-in (I) Participants address issues of media coverage, post-war reconstruction, organizers express regret concerning failure to present both sides of issue due to time, illness (I) Christine Wallace Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Peter Dunn | Cavalier Daily Last night at 7 p.m. in Rouss Hall, the Anti-War Coalition sponsored "War with Iraq: a teach-in," to educate University students about conflict in Iraq and potential consequences. Nine speakers detailed several topics stemming from the war, such as media coverage, motives of the United States and the United Kingdom, the war at home,...

Hundreds to Participate in Die-In During Regional Anti-War Convergence Sunday, January 26th, 3:30 pm, Fifth Avenue (Oakland) The culminating event of the Regional Anti-War Convergence on the weekend of January 24-26, 2003 will be a ?die-in? in the middle of Fifth Avenue, near the Software Engineering Institute (corner of Fifth and Craig) in Oakland. Participants in the ?die-in? will wheel into the street a ten to twelve foot puppet of George W. Bush holding a missile in one hand and an oil can in the other. Hundreds of people are expected to lie down in the street around the puppet...

GRANTS PASS, OR. -- Sixty-five year old Ray Karczewski, a retired police sergeant from Pacifica, California, whose wife of 43 years describes him as "steadfast in what he does" and "very focused" is in the Josephine County, Oregon jail because of his constitutional beliefs.  On September 5, 2002, Mr. Karczewski was stopped for a minor traffic violation. His violation? He failed to dim his high beam headlights. When the officer asked Mr. Karczewski for his driver's license (and other documents which he had), Mr. Karczewski replied, "I don't need a license for private purposes on a public road, in...

GA/PAL/880                                                                                                                                                                        10 April 2002  UN INTERNATIONAL MEETING TO SUPPORT MIDDLE EAST PEACETO CONVENE IN NICOSIA, CYPRUS, 16 - 17 APRIL NGO Meeting in Solidarity with Palestinian People to Take Place on 18 April  NEW YORK, 10 April (Department of Political Affairs) -- The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace in Nicosia, on 16 and 17 April.  The Meeting will be followed, on 18 April, by a United Nations NGO Meeting in Solidarity with the Palestinian...