Archive for December, 2007
Machiavellian or Boob?
I vote boob. I think Huckabee is the Forrest Gump candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
Mike Huckabee said Monday he wouldn’t run a TV ad he’d prepared blistering Republican rival Mitt Romney as dishonest. Then he showed it to a room packed with reporters and cameramen.
Huckabee, who has sharply intensified his criticism of the former [...]
Feds Release Assassin
She took a shot at President Ford in 1975. Today, she was released.
Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday after 32 years behind bars. Moore, 77, was released from the federal [...]
First Bombing of 2008
Same as it ever was.
A bomb attack wounded 27 people Monday in a Thai tourist town where people had gathered to celebrate the New Year, officials said.
Muslim insurgents were suspected in the attack in Sungai Kolok on the border with Malaysia, where two blasts went off inside a hotel discotheque and one in the basket [...]
Low Expectations Met
You can’t trust North Korea.
North Korea missed a year-end deadline to give a full account of its nuclear weapons under a disarmament-for-aid deal struck with regional powers and the United States.
“It’s unfortunate, but we are going to keep working on this,” said U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey as Monday’s deadline of midnight North [...]
Stepford Daughter Denies 9 Year-Old Kid
To protect her mother from God knows what, Chelsea Clinton told a 9 year-old junior reporter to bug off. Ironically, the action aimed at preventing unwanted media scrutiny blew up in the face of the Clinton campaign, forcing them to answer to allegations of meanness.
Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and “kid reporter” for [...]
The Murder of Benazir Bhutto: Up Close and Personal
Getty photographer John Moore narrates a series of slides he took the day Ms. Bhutto was assassinated. He was there and he recounts what he saw.
Meanwhile, another eyewitness confirms Bhutto was shot in neck.
More: Another video, another angle.
Tags: Assassination, Bhutto