CNN Admits Better Screening is Needed

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 30, 2007; Page A06
CNN expressed regret yesterday for allowing a Hillary Clinton adviser to ask a question at Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, even as controversy swirled about two other questioners who have declared their support for Democratic candidates.
Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, who asked why gays should not [...]

Business First, Then Citizens?

Over 200 homeless people have people converged on City Hall in New Orleans.  The citizens lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina, and say the homeless camp is the only affordable home they can find.  Mayor Ray Nagin as of Friday afternoon had not yet met with group, but says agencies are working to address the homeless problem. 
It’s [...]

Schwarzenegger McCain and Gore…The Odd Threesome

      Senator John McCain is slated to take part in a presidential forum of a different kind.  California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore are planning a bipartisan forum on energy and climate change in New Hampshire next month.  This might be political suicide for McCain and other Republican presidential candidates.  There’s a big rift between what [...]

Could This Be It For Bonds?

     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – If convicted on all five counts of lying to
a grand jury and for obstructing justice, home-run king Barry Bonds
could face up to 30 years in prison.
     Bonds was indicted earlier today for lying when he told a
federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use
performance-enhancing drugs provided him by his [...]

Junior ROTC in San Francisco a Thing of the Past?

     The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in San Francisco schools is close to getting axed.  Last year the school board voted to end the program because of it’s ties to the military, but a resolution was proposed to extend the program.  That didn’t happen after the school board put the issue off just minutes before this weeks meeting.  [...]

Mob Ties in A.C.

     ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Nearly two dozen people have been
charged, after authorities broke up an illegal sports gambling ring
that they say was being operated out of a high-stakes poker room in
a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
     The people facing charges include four who authorities say have
ties with the Philadelphia mob, and appeared [...]

Ricky Gets ANOTHER Chance

 
 
 Ricky Williams has been reinstated by the NFL AGAIN after serving over 18 months of a suspension for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.  Are the Miami Dolphins desperate enough to take him back?  It sounds like they will hear Williams out.  Williams is slated to undergo a physical tomorrow (Thursday) and meet with Dolphins coach Cam Cameron.  [...]

Bhutto Back Under House Arrest

     LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani authorities have placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in four days, to prevent her from staging a grand procession to protest emergency rule by President Pervez Musharraf.
     Police in the province where the former prime minister is currently staying say a seven-day detention [...]

Religion and Politics

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says advisers are telling him NOT to give a speech explaining his Mormon faith.  Romney says advisers say it would bring too much attention to the issue.  WHAT?  Almost every Presidential Candidate has talked about their faith, so why not Romney?  There is a stigma about Mormonism that it’s not [...]

Possible Charges Against the Coast Guard

 
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Federal investigators are considering
whether to file criminal charges against the crew members of a
container ship that struck the Bay Bridge and ripped a gash in its
fuel tank.
     The ship is being contained at the Port of Oakland, and
authorities have been questioning crew members. A Coast Guard
attorney says any charges would [...]