A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday. The study, the longest-running of its kind, showed the[...]
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Well, my goodness. It looks as though the people in the path of that massive ash spill are going to be, um, immunologically challenged!
Yes, despite official assurances, it turns out there's all kinds of nasty stuff in the sludge. And surprise, surprise - the [...]
From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, no cold tile floors, no snuggling under blankets until the furnace kicks in. There is, in fact, no furnace.In Berthold Kaufmann's home, there is, to be fair, [...]
There are new details the the drug case of Sherry Johnston, the mother of future Palin son-in-law Levi Johnston, who was arrested on oxycontin-related charges last week.The police busted a couple of her associates, turned them into snitches, wired them, and [...]By the way, we're hunkered down under late December tornado watches. Stay tuned. They're talking like this one could be rough. Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/dougkrile
Remember Sarah Palin? Governor of Alaska? Republican vice-presidential nominee? Expensive wardrobe? Can see Russian from her house? Gets her news from a vast variety of sources? Yeah, that's the one. Here at TPMmuckraker, we've kind of been steering clear of [...]Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/dougkrile
In Canada, the universal health care system is simply called medicare -- and that's what it should be in the U.S. And instead of the 1342-page proposal Hillary Clinton put together that was a politically jerry-rigged, confusing plan -- or the Obama proposal that would leave insurance companies pretty much intact (whose goal is to make money by reducing care as much as possible) -- it would be the simplest and boldest political move to simply propose to Congress this sentence to become law: "All Americans under the age of 65 will be covered by Medicare Part 'E.'"Simplicity is often the most audacious and [...]
Sales of new homes fell in November to the slowest pace in nearly 18 years, while new home prices dropped by the biggest amount in eight months.The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that new home sales fell [...]
Crisscrossing the country in corporate jets may no longer fly in Detroit after car executives got a dressing down from Congress. But on Wall Street, the coveted executive perk has hardly been grounded. Six financial firms that received billions in bailout dollars still own and [...]
President George W. Bush's two terms in office have been marked by wars, a global financial crisis, and a steady stream of political opposition. But his official portrait, unveiled Friday at the National Portrait Gallery, shows him [...]Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/dougkrile
The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a drubbing these days for its abject failure―despite detailed tips―to catch Bernie Madoff in what appears to be the biggest Ponzi scheme in our nation's history. Now, thanks to little-noticed report from the agency's inspector general, we have a [...]Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/dougkrile
TPM has the MSNBC video of the news conference. This is quite remarkable. I'm thinking this guy may be certifiably over the top.
Looking to beef up your mojo this holiday season?Burger King Corp. may have just the thing. The home of the Whopper has launched a new men's body spray called "Flame." The company describes the spray as [...]
A.C. Thompson has a devastating piece in The Nation this week describing the all-white militia that took up arms to defend one of the few neighborhoods in New Orleans to stay dry after Hurricane Katrina broke the levees in 2005: "Facing an influx of refugees, the residents of Algiers Point could have pulled together food, water and medical supplies for the flood victims. Instead, [...]
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With Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's lead shrinking
to just two votes, the state board examining disputed ballots in
Minnesota's U.S. Senate race is close to wrapping up its decisions on
challenges.However a key court ruling has practically guaranteed that the recount will drag into the new year.The Canvassing Board hoped to [...]
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Someone call Dan Brown: French painting experts have discovered faint drawings on the back of Da Vinci’s painting “The Virgin and Child With St. Anne” at Paris’ Louvre Museum, including a sketch of a skull! Intrigue abounds [...]Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/dougkrile
NBC News has named Chuck Todd its new Chief White House correspondent. He will retain his title as NBC News political director as well. Todd is also being named [...]
The White House says a managed bankruptcy for automakers is one option being considered to help save the troubled industry. White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters Thursday that [...]
MSNBC is noting its 2008 ratings… MSNBC HAS BEST YEAR EVER – IS FASTEST GROWING CHANNEL IN ALL OF TELEVISION IN 2008 “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” Dominates “Campbell Brown” at 8 PM “The Rachel Maddow Show” Out-Rates “Larry King Live” Launch to Date NEW YORK – Dec. 17, 2008 – MSNBC had its best year ever in 2008 and [...] |
The new Alaska State Officers Compensation Commission has recommended that Gov. Sarah Palin (R) receive a 20 percent raise, pushing her salary up from $125,000 to $150,000. However, the five-member commission was appointed by the governor, with two of them selected “from lists recommended by legislative leaders.” At the same time, Palin has proposed cutting [...]UPDATE: I'll give her credit for turning down any raise. For now.
Gov. Sarah Palin didn't ask for a pay raise and won't accept one during her current term, a spokesman said Wednesday. A new state commission appointed by Palin recommends [...]
Anxious to jolt the economy back to life, President-elect Barack Obama is considering a federal stimulus package that could reach a whopping $1 trillion, dwarfing last spring's tax rebates and rivaling drastic government actions to fight the Great Depression. Obama [...]
Obama Selects Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary (Copied as is with no editing): 10:36 PM bad choice wrote ...Seems to me that this is a terrible choice.......what does he know about farming? Guess Nobama isn't as smart as everyone thought he was. I knew we would find that out sooner rather than later, if you think things are bad now, just wait, with Nobama and his Clinton people, it can only get [...]
Throughout the campaign, there were a few times when I was irritated with the Obama campaign, but I have never been so angry with Obama and his staff. By choosing homophobe Rick Warren, who helped pass Prop 8 in California, to do the invocation at the inauguration, Barack Obama just said to LGBT Americans that we're not part of that event. Thanks. I'm sure the brain trust [...]
Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.” Goldberg says that the book’s prologue contains a “whopper of a scene” featuring former CIA director George Tenet “drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar’s Riyadh pool, [...]
Barack Obama will reportedly name former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack -- who had previously said he didn't think he was at all in the running for a cabinet post -- as his Secretary of Agriculture. The fact that Obama is [...]
Clubby.
A Long Island PTA official has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she was caught half-naked in a car with a 13-year-old boy. Joan Tuckruskye, 44, of Baldwin, N.Y., was found with the boy in [...]
The cut, to a record low of 0 to 0.25 percent, is not exactly a vote of confidence in the economy.
A roundup of news headlines gives you the flavor.UPDATE: The market chooses to be happy about it, for one day at least. The Dow [...]
I can't even keep track of how many people I know have been laid off in the last month, and a few of them are already having trouble paying the mortgage: "Unemployment is now the cause of almost half of all foreclosures on conventional mortgages, raising concerns that mounting joblessness will stall any housing recovery and could cause more foreclosures next year.The increase in unemployment as a cause is [...]
On a farewell trip to Iraq, President George W. Bush said Sunday the war has been hard, but was necessary to protect the U.S. and give Iraqis hope for a peaceful future.Bush visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days before he hands the war off to President-elect Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. At the end of nearly two hours of meetings at an ornate, marble-floored palace along the shores of [...]UPDATE: An Iraqi Journalist (that's what the TV is saying) tossed a shoe at Bush during the press conference!
A man threw his shoes at President George W. Bush and was dragged away by security officials during the president's farewell trip to Iraq. The incident occurred as Bush was appearing Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bush ducked and wasn't [...]
An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucracy [...]
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Since we began publishing backstage concert riders about 10 years ago, TSG has been searching for the most famous rider of them all, the one in which Van Halen famously stipulated that brown M&M's were to be banished from the band's dressing room. Well, the hunt is over [...]
Until 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants [...]
At a cursory glance, the news about George W. Bush moving into a former whites-only enclave in Texas called Preston Hollow looks to be one of those minor, one-day stories. After all, it's not as if these kinds of covenants are still in existence or are being enforced, right?[...]
Tribune Co. is preparing for a possible bankruptcy-protection filing as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter, opening a new front of trouble for the newspaper industry. As Tribune continues discussions with its lenders to rework its [...]
Other media rumors:
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday the U.S. government has no choice but to spend its way out of its worst economic crisis in decades.With the U.S. economy in a recession, Clinton said President-elect Barack Obama must [...]UPDATE: Clinton was in Malasia for a speech, paid for by a controversial businessman. Looks like this might be one relationship that Bill will wish didn't happen.
...“You should be proud of this man,” Mr. Clinton told the audience, pointing at Mr. Sekhar, the 40-year-old chief executive of the Petra Group, a privately held rubber technology company. But several angry investors in Britain and Malaysia say they disagree with the former president’s glowing[...]
When Fox News talk powerhouse Bill O’Reilly announced several years ago that he was going to launch a talk radio show, some conservatives were angry, saying he was going to compete with and hurt conservative talk show radio icon Rush Limbaugh. But now the news sweeping the talk show and media world: O’Reilly will give [...]
Scott Althaus, professor of political science and communication, and Kalev Leetaru, coordinator of research in the Cline Center for Democracy, recently found that the U.S. White House Web site has modified, and in some cases, deleted key[...]
If you need more. But, the entire industry is filled with stupid moves right now:
They’re rested. They’re contrite (to a point). They’ve taken public relations advisers’ advice and this time didn’t fly on private jets. The big three automakers CEOs have been back in front of Congress again, making a revamped pitch for a bailout. Some call it a request, others call it begging but the bottom line is they’re [...]
KBR and Halliburton are the targets of a new class-action lawsuit alleging that U.S. troops have been sickened by water, food and fumes produced by the two massive private contractors, according to [...]
UPDATE: From the New York Times:
On the upside, the Dow Industrials gained almost 300 points. Go figure.
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold [...]
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