US: Vatican Relations Strong Despite Cable Leak
The Huffington Post - 8 days agoROME — Washington's relationship with the Holy See is too strong to be undermined by Wikileaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican said in an AP interview Friday. Among thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables being leaked by the se…
Read more >>Turbulent four years coming to end for Gov. Jim Gibbons
Las Vegas Sun - 31st Dec 2010Carson City — On Monday, Gov. Jim Gibbons will conclude what might be the roughest four-year term a Nevada politician has endured who didn’t die or get indicted. It began with pre-election accusations of assault on a Cocktail Waitress a…
Read more >>Hawaii beats MSU 68-57 in 1st game since fight
The Daily Caller - 25th Dec 2010HONOLULU (AP) — Zane Johnson had 19 points and eight rebounds to lead Hawaii over short-handed Mississippi State 68-57 in the fifth-place game of the Diamond Head Classic on Saturday, the first game for the Bulldogs since they suspended two …
Read more >>Compromise may have saved President Obama
New York Daily News - 17th Dec 2010
WASHINGTON - Democratic purists can complain all the way to 2012, but President Obama did what he must to save The Economy - and himself - from falling into the abyss. The $858 billion tax Compromise he cut with resurgent congressional Republica…
Read more >>Pence Redefines Deficit: Only Number-Crunchers Think Tax Cuts Have A Cost
Wonk Room - 16th Dec 2010
Pence Redefines Deficit: Only ‘Number-Crunchers’ Think Tax Cuts Have A Cost Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) made a bold attempt to redefine the word “deficit” last week during an interview on CNN, telling a perplexed John K…
Read more >>Yglesias Award Nominee I
Andrew Sullivan - 12th Dec 2010
"Our elites, broadly defined as the top third of our society, aren't nearly as decadent as advertised. According to Wilcox's data, the highly educated (with a college diploma or higher) are less likely to Divorce, less likely to hav…
Read more >>Vicki Larson: The Worst-Case Scenario Divorce
The Huffington Post - 9th Dec 2010The news of Elizabeth Edwards' death on Tuesday saddened me on many levels, not only the way in which her 32-year marriage to John came to an end, but also that two of her Children are still so young. People talk about good Divorces and bad divo…
Read more >>Congressional redistricting speculation begins
Examiner.com - 3rd Dec 2010
As the two parties (and the Tea Party movement) quietly lay their plans for redrawing New Jersey's legislative districts, speculation continues about another redistricting task scheduled for next year, for House districts. By all accounts, New Jer…
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