She’s too polarizing and her negatives too high, her fellow Democrats say. She’s too cold and calculating. The right-wing attack machine will grind her up. Nonsense.
Go to original by ADAM C. SMITH in the St. Petersburg Times.

Why wait until 2008? Impeach Bush and make a Democrat president now.

Let’s give Bush and Cheney an eviction notice to remove them as derelict squatters.

Then, let’s move Nancy Pelosi (third in line in succession) into another House, the White House!

Sweet dreams as you wear this button proudly: “Nancy Pelosi for President in 2007.”
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“She had to go that entire night with her ear infection with no medicine because he has his policy,” Tasha Childress said.
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Spider web, Cancun, photograph by Anita Brown
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“I didn’t see any harm in toughening them up”
–A defendant
Go to original on BBC.A jury at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court was shown the footage Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has “stunned” police and social services in Devon. The seven-minute footage, filmed at a house by one woman, was shown in a case at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court.

In the clip, a boy wearing a nappy was called a “wimp” for not hitting a girl back after she struck him in the face. Four women admitted child cruelty charges and were released on bail on Wednesday. Det Sgt Andy Kings said the police had been “shocked” by the case.

An associate municipal court judge in Lafayette, Colo., resigned Monday in protest of stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in the city.
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A psychedelic British rock festival called Bestival, scheduled for September, had been encouraging attendees to dress as clowns, just for fun. But too many people protested they would be freaked out, and the festival canceled the plan, according to the Bestival Web site.

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More than one in six dollars charged by U.S. contractors were questionable or unsupported.
Go to original by HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on
Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk.

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Debra Pickett resigned from the Sun-Times Monday afternoon, minutes after being asked to do a story she thought was preposterous.

“I laughed,” says Pickett, recalling her response when features editor Christine Ledbetter called with the assignment to breast-feed her infant son in public places and write about it.

Go to original by Michael Miner on ChicagoReader.com

Virtually all of the U.S.-based Army combat brigades are rated as unready to deploy, Army officials say.
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Go to original by By Robert MacMillan

U.S. newspapers that spend more money on their newsrooms will make more money, according to a study released on Wednesday, which questioned the wisdom of the media industry’s trend of cutting jobs to save costs.

The authors of the University of Missouri-Columbia study, which was based on 10 years of financial data, said news quality affects profit more than spending on circulation, advertising and other parts of the business.

“If you invest in the newsroom, do you make more money? The answer is yes,” Esther Thorson, an advertising professor and associate dean for graduate studies at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, said in a statement.
“If you lower the amount of money spent in the newsroom, then pretty soon the news product becomes so bad that you begin to lose money,” she said.”

As Earth gets warmer, large regions will experience heavier rain and snowfall as weather becomes generally more intense. –National Center for Atmospheric Research
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