Via the WSJ: Obama Outlines Plan to Curb Earmarks At the same time, after Democrats criticized former President George W. Bush’s signing statements, Mr. Obama issued one of his own, declaring five provisions in the spending bill to be unconstitutional and nonbinding, including one aimed at pre...

F ocus on Defense: WASHINGTON, March 11, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will await the results of a thorough review process before making decisions about major defense systems, keeping U.S. security interests at the forefront, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters today. â...

Mary Louise Schumacher - “Shifting gears into pure reading mode has proven hard — and even joyless. Reading shouldn’t be such an undertaking. Recently, I decided to do something I never do. I printed out a week’s worth of articles that I’d set aside. My plan was to take...

Since this is a popular recurring joke among Wolfpack fans on message boards and elsewhere, I'm gonna assume he's kidding. But it is the Technician... I know what we need to get over the hump in football next season – a pack of live wolves. Yes, real, snarling, growling, live wolves held on leashe...

ï¾  It seems sometimes that Jason has, say, 100 points of discipline, and as we expect more from him, he has to take some from one area to apply it to another. He still wets his pants a little sometimes, and has problems pushing kids at school. When one gets better, the other will sometimes get wors...

Los Angeles Times - “Digitizing books is all the rage these days, with the Kindle 2 being pimped on the “Daily Show,” Amazon allowing its e-books to be read on the iPhone and Barnes & Noble getting deeper into the digital book market. Google can now scan out-of-print and rare b...

First in our report is Senator David Vitter (R-Diaper), who was late to his flight at Dulles International the other day. He threw down a big old “Don’t you know who I am” tantrum when he was late for his flight the other day. According to RawStory in a story from Roll Call, Vitter...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) competed on Tuesday in a contest that no company really wants to play: the Expectations Game. Things turned out pretty well for the famous seller of sports stuff (being that I'm no athlete, I ...

Recruiter says superiors brushed aside his complaints about nickname A black Royal Navy recruiting officer was introduced as "Robert Mugabe" at important meetings and once came into work to find a "Vote Mugabe" poster on the wall above his desk, an employment tribunal heard today. Andrew Antrobus sa...

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