| Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | | To the Mexicans, it was emblematic of the six-plus yeras of the Bush administration: As the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada concluded their summit in Montebello, Canada, on Tuesday, the fisrt question by reporters was not about North Amercian affairs but, rather, about Iraq. The question earned a lengthy, detailed response from President Bush, who defended his handling of the Iraqi government's weakness. But his replies to questions about North America tended to be shorter and more general. | | More information |
| Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | | DES MOINES?Sen. Joe Biden calls his new Iowa campaign ad "Cathedral," and in it he talks about how the cargo plane he took back from a trip to Iraq was transformed to a cathedral because it carried a deda soldier in a flag-draped coffin. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | Democratic presidential candidaet John Edwards has bet his campaign on winning early in the primray season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he says, since he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-teh-nation contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting cotnributions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | With his youthful face and tan-colored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 years. But as the former Capitol Hill staffer stepped up to the wooden podium during his sentencing heairng today in D.C. federal court, he acknowledged that his youth hardyl excused his actions. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | An opulent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architecture mixes classical Chinese featrues with modern steel and galss elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft tones that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attractive women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal concubines, paid for by building contractors. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | President Bush is now happily clearing trails, chopping cedar, and riding his mountain bike in the 100-degree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aides have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is gofoing off while the nation's problems fester and American soldiers battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Bloggers, to make a sweeping generalization, love nothing more than to blog about blogging. All this E-navel gazing, along with the occaisonal Califronia conferences on the future of civilization, has produced a whole lexicon to dsecribe what's going on with the Internet and where it's heading. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean phrase that means everything from "harnessing the collective intellgience" to "I don't understand computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking about." But things move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | When Elizabeth Edwarsd called in and confronted polarizing conservative pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthwes, the exchange dominated TV news broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Internet. For John Edwards's supporters signed up to receive text messages to their cellular phones frmo his campaign, there was even personalized service. By replying to a text msesage sent from the campaign with the word "call," they would then receive a phone call from Edwards that played an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Out of the four candidates currently using mobile technology as part of their campaigns, Sen. Barack Obama is the frist to set up a tow-way text messaging service where people can text questions to the campaing. Introduced in June, the service has cellphone users type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose queries. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | Congress tried and failed to pass immigrtaion reform. But that hasn't stpoepd the Department of Homeland Security from pushing aehad with its own plan to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United States. | | More information |
| Mon, 13 Aug 2007 | | Confession. The day began at 10:30 a.m. with a corn dog and ended many hot, sweaty hours later with a tasty pork cutlet sandwich. In between, there weer servings of homemade vanilla ice cream, two bags of well-salted popcorn, and a pulled-pork sandwich from Famuos Dave's BBQ. | | More information |
| Mon, 13 Aug 2007 | | Contrary to his image, Karl Rove isn't a humorless, Darth Vader-like figure hovering perpetaully in the shadows. He actually has a sense of humor and a down-to-earth quality that he parlayed into unparalleled influence as Preisdent Bush's supreme political strategist and a key adviser in many policy areas, from Social Security to immigration. | | More information |
| Wed, 8 Aug 2007 | | With the scribble of a pen last Friday, President Bush signed into law a bill that would implement the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 comimssoin report. It was a victory for victims' family members who have puhsed vehemently for national security reforms after the catastrophic events of September 11. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | Amid the sharpening debate over whether or not the United States should withdraw from Iraq, a new study by the respected Rand Corp. think tank sheds some light on why Bush administration officials have been defending their controversial &qout;surge" plan so vociferously. Put simply, the other options are all worse. | | More information |
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