USATODAY.com - The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, in an editorial: "As she struggles to keep her presidential campaign alive and relevant, Hillary Clinton is trying to convince the unelected superdelegates who will decide the Democratic presidential nomination that her better than 2-1 victory over Barack Obama in Tuesday's West Virginia primary marks a turning point in the race and underscores her argument that he cannot win in November. It does neither.
USATODAY.com - The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important — but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
The Christian Science Monitor - Lawsuits are not the best way to force the public into solving planet-size problems such as climate change. In most cases, political consensus – as Al Gore is trying to achieve – brings the most fitting solutions. But the environmentalists who sued on behalf of polar bears likely knew that and shouldn't be surprised at what their suit has wrought.
HuffingtonPost.com - The storm over President Bush's "appeasement" remarks in Israel misses the point. No, we should not appease, engage, or give shoulder rubs to Islamist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. But wishing they would go away, while arming their enemies has gotten us nowhere.
The Nation - The Nation -- Last weekend, I traveled to Mississippi's first congressional district, a bastion of Republican power that has been home to William Faulkner, Elvis Presley, and the scene of massive riots on the night James Meredith attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi.
The Nation - The Nation -- In the House....This week, members furiously tangled over the war supplemental spending bill, which would fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through at least March 2009.
RealClearPolitics.com - I received a ton of email in response to my column yesterday arguing that the Clinton campaign's biggest mistake was missing Obama's association with Reverend Wright, clues about which were available as early as February 2007.
RealClearPolitics.com - I'm not necessarily interested in wading into the brouhaha over whether Bush's remarks in Jerusalem yesterday were an implicit attack on Barack Obama.
The Weekly Standard - There are natural disasters, and there are man-made disasters. Cyclones and earthquakes are, of course, natural. But the devastation wrought by a government's refusal to allow aid workers entry into crisis areas; by its confiscation of aid; by its diversion of resources so it can fix a referendum "legitimizing" its antidemocratic authority--that sort of disaster is man-made. And it requires a man-made response.
Richard Reeves - WASHINGTON -- "The Change You Deserve" may sound like scrambled Obama, but it was, in fact, considered as this election-year slogan of the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was rejected when someone noticed that it was also the slogan of a prescription drug called Effexor.
Brent Bozell III - Marriage is a necessary cornerstone of a civilized society. Crumble that building block and the waves of instability can be felt like tremors foreshadowing an earthquake. Sift through the wreckage of the collapsed mariage, and all too often, you'll find the broken bodies of children. It's never fails to be heartbreaking.
Susan Estrich - A few years ago, the National Abortion Rights Action League, as it was then called, or NARAL for short, changed its name to NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.
Larry Elder - I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
Ann Coulter - On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.
AP - Health regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.
AP - France criticized Myanmar's military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters.
AP - A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments.
AP - A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday.
NewsFactor - On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the "boy" spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.
AFP - An American tourist who survived China's deadly earthquake says he is not only lucky to be alive -- he had a "surreal" experience of sharing the moment with giant pandas.
AP - News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday.
AP - NFL investigators have met with a convicted steroids dealer, who has said he provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional football players, according to a newspaper report.
AP - Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 16 (OneWorld) - Antiwar veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took their case to Capitol Hill Thursday, baring their souls with stories of killings of innocent civilians, torture, and wrongful detentions.
AP - Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
AP - The popular hero of China's earthquake rescue effort isn't a strapping firefighter or a seasoned cop it's the country's bespectacled premier who's been clambering over piles of rubble to rally victims in the hardest-hit areas.
AP - Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy.
Reuters - A new Justice Department report
praises FBI agents for refusing to join in the U.S. military's
abusive questioning of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and
Afghanistan, but faults the bureau's for responding slowly to
complaints from its own agents about the tactics, The New York
Times reported on Saturday.
AP - Brian LaFave couldn't care less how high gasoline prices climb these days he's parked his pickup truck and is refusing to buy gas for a month, possibly longer.
Richard Reeves - WASHINGTON -- "The Change You Deserve" may sound like scrambled Obama, but it was, in fact, considered as this election-year slogan of the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was rejected when someone noticed that it was also the slogan of a prescription drug called Effexor.
Reuters - Suspected Mexican drug hit
men dumped the head of a murdered man on top of a car in the
street, police said on Friday, in a rare outrage in the wealthy
city of Monterrey.
AP - President Bush pivoted to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute on Saturday, and got a far less glowing reception from his Egyptian host a key player in the long-running fight than he did in Israel earlier this week.
LiveScience.com - As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in
California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this
question: Is homosexuality natural?
Reuters - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main
power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the
Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.
AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah.
Reuters - Investment bank Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc will begin cutting jobs starting next
week, CNBC Television reported on Friday, without citing
sources.
AP - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
AP - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast. But apparently, Schumer forgot to inform the state's voters.
Reuters - Thousands of Chinese fled to
the hills on Saturday amid fears a lake formed near the
epicenter of this week's earthquake would burst its banks.
AP - Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.
Reuters - Just 5 percent of U.S. cancer
survivors are meeting experts' recommendations on diet,
physical activity and cigarette smoking, a new survey shows.
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I have just returned from visiting a close friend in the next town. She was exhausted from caring for her husband, who has terminal cancer -- but even more so from the many visits from loving friends and relatives around the country.
AP - About 3,600 workers at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. will find out soon whether a new contract was worth 80 days without a company paycheck.
Reuters - Grapes, apples and their juices
can prevent the development of atherosclerosis in hamsters
eating a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, French researchers
have found.
Reuters - A Canadian man who asked his lover to
carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest during a rough sex
game almost died when she accidentally pressed too hard and
punctured his heart, a newspaper said on Thursday.
LiveScience.com - As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in
California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this
question: Is homosexuality natural?
AP - President Bush pivoted to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute on Saturday, and got a far less glowing reception from his Egyptian host a key player in the long-running fight than he did in Israel earlier this week.
Reuters - Oscar-winning documentary maker
Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to
his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on Friday the new
film would cover topics so "toxic" he probably should not make
it.
AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah.
Reuters - A pear-shaped blue diamond has
sold for 5.2 million Swiss francs ($4.93 million), setting a
new world record price per carat for any gemstone, Sotheby's
said on Friday.
AP - A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday.
Reuters - Investment bank Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc will begin cutting jobs starting next
week, CNBC Television reported on Friday, without citing
sources.
AP - About 3,600 workers at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. will find out soon whether a new contract was worth 80 days without a company paycheck.
AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.
Reuters - Grapes, apples and their juices
can prevent the development of atherosclerosis in hamsters
eating a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, French researchers
have found.
Reuters - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main
power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the
Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.
Reuters - A Canadian man who asked his lover to
carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest during a rough sex
game almost died when she accidentally pressed too hard and
punctured his heart, a newspaper said on Thursday.
AP - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech Friday to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.
AP - Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
AP - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
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