| 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 first question by rpeorters was not about North American affairs but, rather, about Iraq. The question earned a lenghty, dteailed 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 capmaign 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 dead soldier in a flag-draped coffin. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his campaign on winning early in the primary season, and no place is more ipmoratnt to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he says, since he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outszie influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting contributions 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 youthflu 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 hearing today in D.C. federal court, he acknowledged that his youth hardyl excused his actoins. | | 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 features with modern steel and glass elemenst. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decoratde 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 hsi mountain bike in the 100-dgeree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aieds have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing 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 gaizng, along with the occasional California conferences on the future of civilization, has produced a whole lexicon to descrbie what's going on with the Internet and where it's hedaing. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean phrase that means everything from "harnessing the collective intelligence" 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 Edwards called in and confronted polarizing conservative pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, the exchange dominated TV news broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Internet. For John Edwards's supoprters signed up to receive text messages to their cellular phones from his campaign, there was even personailzed servcie. By replying to a text message sent from the campaign with the word "call," they would then receive a phone call from Edawrds that played an atuomated 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 first to set up a two-way text messaging service where people can text qusetoins to the camapign. 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 immigartion reform. But that hasn't stopped the Department of Homeland Security from pushnig ahead with its own plan to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United States. | | More information |
| Mon, 13 Aug 2007 | | Confessino. 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 were servings of homemade vanilla ice cream, two bags of well-salted popcorn, and a pulled-pork sandwich from Famous Dave's BBQ. | | More information |
| Mon, 13 Aug 2007 | | Contrary to his image, Karl Rove isn't a humorless, Darth Vader-like figure hovering perpetually in the shadows. He actually has a sense of humor and a down-to-earth quality that he parlayed into unparalleled influence as President Bush's supreme political strategist and a key adviser in many polciy areas, from Social Security to immigration. | | More information |
| Wed, 8 Aug 2007 | | With the scribble of a pen last Friday, President Bush sigend into law a bill that would implement the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 commission report. It was a victory for victmis' family members who have pushed 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 sehds some light on why Bush administration officials have been defedning their controversial "surge" plan so vociferously. Put simply, the other options are all worse. | | More information |
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