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The Russians claim that Georgia's move against two ethnic Russian enclaves was part of an elaborate Cheney plot to keep Obama from becoming president.
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Ten kids -- all of them 13 -- have been shot in hunting related accidents in Oklahoma this decade, more than among any other age group.
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Almost everything else on this year's clambake menu costs a lot more, so how come New England's favorite maritime entree is falling in price?
By: seamusm | Updated: 13 hours ago by glendam | (4)
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A California woman apparently ran out of time and gave birth in her front yard.
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View larger image John Maloney, the mayor of the remote outback mining town of Mt. Isa in Queensland is urging women suffering a "beauty disadvantage" to move there to help end the gender imbalance.
By: seamusm | Updated: 13 hours ago by glendam | (6)
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Emily is animated, but she benefits from a new technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.
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Here's a quick introduction to some of the dumbest things photographer by Flikrites. Keep in mind, somebody actually took a picture of these guys with the extension cords in the wading pool.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by barb | (8)
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For those of you too young to remember F Troop, he's the officer who retreated the wrong way. Apparently the Russians are claiming they're pulling back but are actually getting closer to Tiblisi.
By: seamusm | Updated: 21 hours ago by jjmckay | (3)
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In an effort to spare two of its authors the tedium of having to autograph copies of their own books, a publisher is seeking forgers who can fake the author's John Hancocks.
By: seamusm | Updated: 14 hours ago by glendam | (1)
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So this is what a withdrawal looks like...Russian forces on the Black Sea port of Poti took Georgian soldiers prisoner and seized a shipment of Humvees on their way back to the States.
By: seamusm | Updated: 21 hours ago by glendam | (1)
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A man is suing a Chicago eatery after learning that he had a nine-foot tapeworm, allegedly gotten from some undercooked fish the restaurant served him.
By: seamusm | Updated: 14 hours ago by glendam | (2)
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According to the Census Bureau there's been an increase in the number of women who reach their forties without having children, and those who are are having few of them.
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From Bigfoot sightings in Georgia to the Montauk Monster, there's been a bumper crop of freakish and creepy creatures this year. How come?
For weeks now, McCain has been impugning Obama's patriotism, suggesting that he puts personal ambition above the national interest. Now, in front of the VFW, Obama has called him out.
By: seamusm | Updated: 15 hours ago by soundsal | (2)
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It is, I'm sure, utterly accidental that a copy editor failed to notice that there was an extra r in the phrase "vice presidential PICK in 2000"
By: seamusm | Updated: 20 hours ago by jjmckay | (2)
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In what is likely to be taken a line in the sand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told the world that it can "forget" any hopes of having South Ossetia and Abkhazia returned to Georgia.
By: seamusm | Updated: 5 days ago by soundsal | (3)
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A couple of design students have come up with an oddly beautiful and way cool design for the Beemer ZX-6.
By: seamusm | Updated: 2 days ago by jjmckay | (2)
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Thus spake McCain, apparently without any sense of irony, while discussing the Russian advance in Georgia.
By: seamusm | Updated: 5 days ago by davepl | (4)
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'John Edwards' motivations...to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk...'
By: seamusm | Updated: 5 days ago by ademers1980 | (4)
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Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition.
By: seamusm | Updated: 5 days ago by glendam | (4)
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Surgeons harvested the hearts of two severely brain damaged infants just two minutes after they died and transplanted them, but some say the procedure pushed ethical boundaries.
By: seamusm | Updated: 4 days ago by glendam | (4)
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The Georgia President nearly made a bad situation worse yesterday when he said that the US was ready to take over ports and airports in the former Soviet republic.
By: seamusm | Updated: 4 days ago by soundsal | (4)
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It was a compelling moment at Saddleback church when McCain recounted how a NVM captor had showed him kindness and drew a cross in the dirt on Christmas Day. It was also compelling when Solzhenitsyn wrote it in the Gulag Archipelago.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by soundsal | (3)
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At least that's what CNN seems to saying, and Josh Marshall is trying to figure out what Biden would bring to the team.
By: seamusm | Updated: 22 hours ago by glendam | (2)
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Increasingly, doctors treating patients for pain are prescribing the synthetic opiate once used primarily for helping junkies wean themselves from smack. But there are a few downsides.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by glendam | (1)
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Roughed up by the larger UFC, the International Fight League is one the ropes and bleeding cash.
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It's one of those rare shots -- a female gorilla apparently grieving over the death of her baby.
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A day after Musharraf announced his resignation the governing coalition is already beginning to fray with Sharif threatening to pull out of the government.
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A new Quinnipiac poll finds that John McCain's reaction to the Russia-Georgia crisis may have paid off, with 55 percent of those queried saying they thought him best qualified to deal with the situation.
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McCain, who has never been particularly cozy with the religious right, seems to bandy about the term "Judeo-Christian values" a lot, even occasionally in inappropriate circumstances, Slate writes.
By: seamusm | Updated: 19 hours ago by seamusm | (1)
Based entirely on sloppy reporting and what Joel Whitney sees as a fervent desire to paint Obama as terrorist sympathizer, the paper last year published a story that had been debunked before the reporter even started working on it.
A New Zealand court has ruled that the country's porn stars have every right to doff their tops and ride their motorcycles bare breasted and en masse through the heart of the nation's largest city.
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The first term Senator who has been peddling furiously to put some space between himself and GW's out of control mountain bike says he's skip the GOP convention if it weren't surrounding him.
By: seamusm | Updated: 20 hours ago by seamusm | (1)
The third book in his series chronicling the Bush Administration at war is due out in September, and like the Bush Administration itself, the book is still cloaked in secrecy.
In yesterday's Times the calumnist-who-has-never-been-right-about-anything says there was no basis for the suggestion that McCain was outside the cone of silence at the Faith Forum. Actually reporting in Kristol's own paper disputes that.
The California Supreme Court ruled doctors cannot refuse to treat gay or lesbian patients because of their religious beliefs.
Before you make any judgments about a well educated young woman who opts to work horizontally, consider this, she earns $2,000 an hour.
Despite his battle against pancreatic cancer -- a battle he seems to be having some success with -- Patrick Swayze is still hooked on the smokes.
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A millionaire shot and killed his his wife then turned the gun on himself in the couple's sprawling East Hampton summer estate Monday morning, Newsday reported.
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A cell phone ring tone that chant 'condom, condom' is getting a lot of play these days in India.
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The credit crunch may still take out a large American bank, professor Kenneth Rogoff, the highly respected former IMF chief told the Times of London.
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Ten French soldiers were killed in one attack and suicide bombers raided and American outpost in what officials say was a coordinated attack, the most serious in six years of fighting.