SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010
Conspiracies Abound: North Korea Blows Up Oil Rig
From The Right Guy Show who re-posted from What Does It Mean?
We are proud of these accomplishments, but our work is not done. We will continue to work toward an unmatched level of transparency, participation and accountability across the entire Administration.
4/21/10: ...the White House, before releasing anything, would filter out records with "particularly sensitive and private information,"
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday that Arizona’s controversial new immigration enforcement law invites racial profiling, Politico reported today.
Clinton spoke in an interview recorded for NBC’s “Meet the Press,” scheduled to air tomorrow.
“This law is written so broadly that if you were visiting in Arizona and you had an accent -- and you were a citizen from, you know, my state of New York -- you could be subjected to the kind of inquiry ... that this law permits,” Clinton said in excerpts published by Politico.
Cross-posted from Food Politics.
Mead-Johnson, the company that prides itself on its “decades-long patterning of infant formulas after breast milk,” now goes one better. It sells chocolate- and vanilla-flavored formulas for toddlers, fortified with nutrients, omega-3s, and antioxidants.
The company’s philosophy: Your toddler won’t drink milk? Try chocolate milk!
In the Washington world of million-dollar lobbying contracts and $500 lunch meetings, Paul Kanitra aims lower -- much lower.
Next up on Mayor Bloomberg's forbidden-food list: baby-back ribs.
"It's going to kill you," the mayor warned on his WOR radio show once the host informed him that a full rack sold at Outback Steakhouse contains 2,000 calories and 2,600 milligrams of sodium.
Bloomberg has been on an anti-salt crusade lately, so those sky-high numbers didn't go down well.
Realizing he might have gone a bit far, the mayor allowed that the average person could survive a sit-down or two with a heaping plate of ribs.
"We all do things that aren't good for us," he added.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The lone woman trainer at this weekend's Kentucky Derby is angered that her gender is an issue as she sets out to become the first female winner of the "Run for the Roses."
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Immigrant rights activists planning dozens of Saturday marches nationwide hope Arizona's controversial immigration law spurs tens of thousands to protest and adds urgency to pleas for federal immigration reform. |
CLYMER - An Indiana County woman has been charged with having sex with a horse, state police at Indiana said Tuesday.
Dovie Lee Kerner, 46, of Plumville also allegedly had sex with other animals including a dog and a pig, court documents state.
One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.
“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Sarah Palin testified Friday about the disruption and hurt caused when her e-mail account was hacked during the 2008 presidential campaign and said outside court that there should be consequences for what happened. |