Reminder: The massive egg recall is still going on. ABC News has the egg recall list to help consumers stay informed. And just in case you’re curious (or ate a few of the recall eggs), CBS news has info on salmonella symptoms.
So … maybe I’ll just home school my kids from sixth grade on. At least, that sounds better than exposing my kids to the latest teen trend: Lists. — Momma Said
Sarah Palin didn’t have the best batting average with her endorsements on Tuesday. But that didn’t stop her from announcing her support for a new crop of candidates on Wednesday.
In a post on her Facebook page, the former Alaska governor endorsed seven women who are seeking office this year — all the while citing the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
“Words cannot express the depth of gratitude we owe to those brave feminist foremothers who struggled and sacrificed, endured imprisonment and ridicule, and fought fearlessly to grant future generations of American women a voice,” Ms. Palin wrote.
During the 2008 campaign, the enthusiasm for one candidate or the other tended to bury an unpleasant truth: Whoever got elected would face huge problems that would be difficult to handle to the public’s satisfaction. As President Obama visits Seattle today (Aug. 17), that reality has caught up with him and his party.
Obama has relatively low popularity ratings, and the Democratic candidates for whom he is campaigning, including Sen. Patty Murray, face difficult election contests. Now, he will try to use his superior oratory and intellectual skills to rally voters to keep at least working Democratic majorities in Congress, anything but a sure thing.
Actor Michael Douglas has revealed that he has throat tumor and will start radiation and chemotherapy for its treatment.
The 65-year-old actor told via a statement that he is feeling very optimistic about the situation and doctors expect him to make a full recovery after the cancer treatments, which are expected to last eight weeks in total.
News that Michael Douglas has a throat tumor were confirmed by his publicist, who added he is currently outside US but didn’t give any more details on where will Douglas start treatment.
Harvard pulled ahead of Ivy League rival Princeton in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report university rankings, while a stronger emphasis on graduation rates drove other changes in the Top 10.
The nation’s oldest university and traditionally one of its most selective, Harvard has topped the list two of the last three years. Last year, the two elite schools shared the top ranking.
Yale was the No. 3-ranked university this year, followed by Columbia, and Stanford and Penn tied at No. 5.
The Ivy League tie has been broken – and Harvard is the winner.
Neck and neck with Princeton last year, the Crimson have beat out the Tigers in just-released rankings of the nation’s top universities.
“On a scale of 100, Harvard beat Princeton by 1,” said Robert Morse of U.S. News & World Report, who was in charge of crunching the numbers.
Yale was in third place, and the city’s Ivy League player, Columbia, vaulted to No. 4, from eighth place last year.
“It’s a community within the communities of New York City,” said Eric Helms, 25, who’s getting a master’s degree in poetry at Columbia.
Obama Shirtless, Recalling the uproar that occurred the last time that President Barack Obama was photographed shirtless in a bathing suit – the White House took steps to prevent a recurrence.
While Obama and daughter Sasha took a bath in the waters near Panama City Beach this past weekend, led the White House press photographers in a hotel, Jeremy New York Times reports’ W. Peters.
The White House gave the media a photo taken by a White House photographer.
Peters The New York Times reports:
The White House on Saturday struggled to tamp down the controversy over President Barack Obama’s statements about a mosque near ground zero — insisting Obama wasn’t backing off remarks Friday night when he offered support for a project that has infuriated some families whose loved ones died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Obama’s comments placed him in the middle of the controversy over a Muslim group’s plans for a mosque near the site of the 2001 attack — and in turn, transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight.
Hilary Duff wedding pictures have finally been unveiled after some time. The people had been waiting for the pictures of her wedding to be released since she got married and finally the Hilary Duff wedding pictures are available. The Hilary Duff wedding pictures are in demand as the couple is pretty famous among the public. The lady married her love Mike Comrie who is an ice hockey player. The wedding took place on Saturday.
There were a limited number of guests and it is believed that around a hundred people arrived to attend the ceremony. A friend of the couple stated that he was pretty excited to see the two of them get married and he wishes all the best to them for their coming life. The couple is quite strong financially as Hilary earns a lot being and actress and singer and at the same time her husband is a top class hockey player and he has earned millions of dollars in her career. Hilary has been ranked among the most earning youngsters and it has also been reported that she recently bought a luxurious house having a value of about four million dollars.
When Media Matters posted the audio and story behind Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s use of the “N” word, the Internet went into overdrive with comments, tweets and retweets, driving the story faster than the time it took for Dr. Laura to parody her way into the history books with a barrage of “N” word sarcasm on her radio show Aug. 10.
Dr. Laura’s exchange with a listener created an opportunity for the famous radio expert on interpersonal relations to clearly demonstrate her understanding of cross-cultural communications. Instead, she exhibited a distant disconnect with African Americans akin to the reputations of fellow radio cohorts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
