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POPSRepublican Hagel Doesn't Endorse McCain It's not extremely surprising. Hagel's been the antiwar Republican for some time now. Still, "Republican won't endorse McCain" is not a headline the GOP wants to read right now.
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POPSBloomberg As Presidential Kingmaker Billionaire Bloomberg isn't running for President but he might have a say in who wins. If the popular NYC mayor proves he has some influence in the key swing state of Florida, he could have an effect on the election's outcome.
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POPSMcClellan Says He Can't Tie Cheney to CIA Leak *Everyone* knows that Armitage was the leaker. Libby was convicted (unfairly, in my opinion) of "obstructing justice". The trial was a political stunt aimed at more mud-slinging at the hated Administration to see what might stick.
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POPSTaliban Are Weaker As NATO Attacks Rebels (Update2) Afghan officials said the Taliban have now been cleared from the villages outside the city. Taliban rebels, seeking to overthrow President Hamid Karzai's government, stepped up their insurgency in southern and eastern provinces and increasingly targeted the capital, Kabul, with suicide bombings in recent months. While acknowledging the jail break and fighting posed difficulties, Wood said the international community wouldn't allow the district to fall to the insurgents. Our unified assessment in Kabul is that the Taliban is weaker in 2008 than it was at the beginning of the fighting season in 2007. The Islamist fighters last year lost districts and the U.S. has intelligence of ``some dissatisfaction among the rank and file of the Taliban with their focus on terrorism against innocent civilians. NATO leads a force of more than 53,000 soldiers battling the Taliban.
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POPSNine Salmonella Victims Ate at One Chain... ``The restaurant is not the problem,'' said FDA spokeswoman Julie Zawisza in an e-mail today. ``The tomatoes are.'' Poor tomatos! Scapegoats like these always at the hand. Underpaid, haunted kitchen workers are only one part of problem, another - management in restaurants and overall culture of processing food. Wash your hands with soap, rinse your tomato without soap or brush - don't get crazy and enjoy off this wonderful gift of nature.
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POPSBloomberg, ABC Propose McCain/Obama NY Debate It'll be interesting to see how the campaigns respond to this. It was McCain who proposed a series of 'townhall' debates, but ABC's proposal wasn't what he had in mind. "I don't think we need any big media-run production, no process question from reporters, no spin rooms," McCain said. Obama's camp indicated they'd be open to the idea, but were non-commital .
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POPSBrazil's Lula Rebuffs Biofuels Critics at World Food Summit "Subsidies create dependency, break down entire production systems and provoke hunger and poverty. It is high time to do away with them,'' Lula stated. "It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean biofuels—fingers tainted with oil and coal." US corn-based ethanol is an example of a harmful type of biofuel "shot up with subsidies and shielded behind tariff barriers," Lula added. ::
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POPSPickens: Watch Out Yahoo We already know Yahoo shareholders are angry the company nixed a takeover by Microsoft. Now billionaire T. Boone Pickens says those shareholders have solid grounds to sue the company.
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POPSBo Diddley Dies In Florida At 79 Like B.B. King and other great blues and rhythm-and-blues artists, Diddley's first exposure to music came from church, in this case the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. He learned to play the violin and the trombone. At age 12, Diddley took up the guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker's 1949 rhythm-and-blues hit, ``Boogie Chillen.'' ``Diddley claimed that playing the violin influenced his muted-string, choke-neck style of rhythm -- an early forerunner of funk that can be heard on songs like `Pretty Thing,''' the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame says in its official Bo Diddley biography.
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POPSKohn Signals Wall Street May Get Permanent Access to Fed Loans The Central Bank continues it's non-violent take over of the American Economy. Is that redundant? I mean they already own us with interest backed loans to the government. All our money is loaned to the govt. by the Fed, the money has interest. We pay the interest with money loaned to us from the Fed thereby accruing even more interest. It never ends. This article only points to the new level of escalation on this economic war vs. the American people.