Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have demanded a full explanation of the Tory-run County Council's 'catalogue of errors' that has led to the prospect of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste being imported into Bedfordshire from Buckinghamshire to be burnt
The 47-year-old Democrat briefly spoke to Zardari, King Abdullah, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and its Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday over telephone, thanking
The Drudge Report surpassed its record, serving more than 200 million ad impressions in one day through the Intermarkets Portfolio. (PRWeb Nov 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1580634.htm
Artist Michael Cuffe releases painting that marks the significance of the Obama Presidency, His campaign, and America's Quest for Hope. (PRWeb Nov 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Obama/Art/prweb1584944.htm
A fter a week lecturing at Kansas State University and then in Kansas City, Missouri, I could not shake the feeling that what Kansas and Missouri need most is the equivalent of Radio Free Europe, which was so effective in
Q uoth Barack Obama , then a candidate for the Presidency, way back in August of 2007: "I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance involving civilians." Now that Obama is
T he media and the Washington foreign policy elite breathed a sigh of relief when Barack Obama thumped John McCain in the election. Had John McCain won, there was always the chance that the neoconservatives would have beaten out the
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the book Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations , by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz. For more about the Winter Soldier hearings, read this FPIF commentary
Tonight's Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, jennyjem, mem from somerville, YatPundit, vcmvo2, and dadanation. The rescued diaries penncove explains why LBJ and Obama have many things in common: 1964: The LBJ Wall. (vcmvo2) LithiumCola provides a thoughtful treatise on the
The Seattle PI has called the race in WA-08 for Reichert. Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert has won re-election in Washington's 8th Congressional District, defeating two-time Democratic challenger Darcy Burner in a close race. With almost 80 percent of the
PLEASE NOTE - This is not an open thread and is intended for diaries and discussion of downticket races. For all the introductory stuff and links to previous diaries in the series, please look below the fold... This Rescue Diary
A new montage of that magical night, including video of each major network calling the election for Barack Obama and of highlights from his victory speech: Links: Daily Kos | YouTube | Digg | Veoh (if YouTube isn't working) It's
Put another one in the win column: ANNAPOLIS -- Democrat Frank Kratovil has defeated Republican Andy Harris to win a seat that has been held by the GOP for 18 years in Maryland's tight 1st District congressional race. With the
This one ain't over guys. From the campaign: There are 81,000 ballots outstanding. Absentee and early ballots (2/3rd of that total) will be counted next Wednesday. The other 1/3rd, questioned ballots will be counted later next week or even early
Saturday pundits! Gail Collins: I am sorry to say that there have been some instances of gloating winners and sore losers, going even beyond the moment when Barney the White House dog bit a Reuters reporter. For instance, there was
Because I'll never get enough of typing "President-Elect Obama" ... you can listen here: On Tuesday, Americans stood in lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen. It didn't matter who they were or
