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Bush
Sends Clear "Diplomatic" Message
George Bush, in what might be the most
diplomatically-worded statement of his presidency,
sent a clear message to Russia basically saying, WE
ARE WITH GEORGIA.
He
is sending "humanitarian aid" using military
aircraft and US Navy vessels, as well as Secretary of
State Condoleeza Rice to Georgia.
Oh...and
he's postponing his trip to his Texas ranch to remain
in Washington to monitor events.
That's
a pretty clear statement to Russia. We are
drawing the line here.
The
cold war is back on. NOTHING, absolutely
NOTHING the Russians say can be believed.
And
leave it to the left in the country to say "The
US has no right to say anything, we went into
IRAQ!"
There
is no comparison to be made. We had 16 UN
Resolutions backing us up and an ongoing
"unresolved" situation from the Kuwait
invasion to deal with, but then the HATE AMERICA
liberals really don't care what the TRUTH is.
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Lawsuit against Joel Osteen's wife.
Bogus. -
When does reality come to the surface in this missing
Caylee Anthony case? Kid's dead, mother killed
her. -
I'm a little concerned about this "Memory
Walk" to raise money for Alzheimer's. Is it
possible we could end up with a whole bunch of lost
people?
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Alfred
Hitchcock, the macabre master of moviemaking, is born
in London on August 13, 1899. His innovative directing
techniques and mastery of suspense made him one of the
most popular and influential filmmakers of the 20th
century.
Although
he never won an Oscar for his film direction, he
received the prestigious Irving Thalberg Award from
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in
1967. In 1980, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
of his native Britain, even though he had long been a
naturalized U.S. citizen. Hitchcock died later that
year, having directed nearly 60 films in his long
career.
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The
officer in charge of a Navy flight squadron
that provides the president and the defense
secretary the airborne ability to command and
control the nation's nuclear submarines,
bombers and missile silos has been relieved
of duty, FOX News has confirmed.
Cmdr.
Shawn Bently allegedly had an inappropriate
personal relationship with a woman also in
the Navy, a source told FOX News.
A
Navy official told FOX News that about a half
dozen other commanding officers are released
for similar reasons every year. A temporary
replacement for Bentley has already been
assigned.
Officially,
Bentley was relieved of duty Monday by the
Navy for loss of confidence in his ability to
command, only three months after assuming the
position.
Capt.
Brian Costello, commander of the Navy's
Strategic Communications Wing One, removed
Bentley from command, said Lt. Cmdr. Charlie
Brown, a spokesman for the Naval Air Forces.
Brown
said Bentley, who is based with the squadron
at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, was
removed after an investigation by the Navy's
Inspector General was completed. The Navy did
not release any details about the
investigation or about any possible
allegations against Bentley.
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Report:
Shots Fired at Arkansas Democratic Party HQ;
Party Chairman Critical
Gunman
opens fire inside Arkansas Democratic Party
HQ in Little Rock, wounding state party
Chairman Bill Gwatney, above; suspect caught
after a 25-mile car chase.
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Disgraced
ex-presidential candidate John Edwards
secretly rekindled his steamy affair with his
campaign videographer after confessing his
infidelity to his cancer-stricken wife,
according to an explosive new report.
In
admitting their affair to ABC on Friday,
Edwards said his "short" romantic
relationship with Rielle Hunter began only
after Hunter was hired in July 2006 to
produce videos for his campaign, and ended
that year.
He
said he then confessed the relationship to
his wife, Elizabeth.
But
the National Enquirer is reporting today that
Edwards restarted the affair after coming
clean to Elizabeth, and that Hunter, now 44,
got pregnant shortly afterward.
Meanwhile,
Hunter's sister said yesterday that the
mistress' 6-month-old love child unmistakably
"looks like John Edwards. She's got his
eyes and jaw line and lips.
"The
most shocking thing was watching him on TV
[last week] giving these half truths, these
half-baked answers. I wish for everyone
involved that he'd have come clean,"
Hunter's sis, Roxanne Druck, told
"Entertainment Tonight."
Despite
recent denials in an ABC News interview,
Edwards knows he's the father of Hunter's
daughter, Frances Quinn, the Enquirer is
reporting.
Sources
have also told the weekly paper Edwards and
Hunter orchestrated her public rebuffing of
his offer of a paternity test.
"She's
still protecting John because she loves him
and thinks they may eventually have a future
together," an Enquirer source said.
Edwards
lied to ABC when he said he did not know his
former national finance chairman was
funneling a reported $15,000 per month to
Hunter, the newspaper said.
Former
chairman Fred Baron reportedly also is paying
$20,000 per month to Andrew Young, the
married Edwards campaign official who claims
he fathered Frances.
Edwards,
the Democratic 2004 vice presidential
nominee, has visited Hunter and the love
child three times since March at the Beverly
Hills Hilton in California, the Enquirer
said. The paper's reporters last month
spotted him leaving her hotel room.
Two
days before admitting to the affair Friday,
Edwards told Hunter to leave the country, and
she agreed - hopping a chartered Lear jet
flight to a secret location on a trip that
cost $50,000, the paper reports.
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Paul
Donahoe, a 2007 national champion, and Kenny
Jordan were dismissed from the Nebraska
wrestling team after the school determined
they had violated NCAA rules.
Josh White, NU’s assistant athletic
director for compliance, told The Associated
Press that Donahoe and Jordan were declared
ineligible because they violated an NCAA rule
that prohibits athletes from receiving
compensation for the use of their images by
anyone seeking commercial gain.
In recent weeks, the NU
athletic department learned that Donahoe
and Jordan, both of whom qualified for the
2008 NCAA Championships, had posed for
pictures that were posted on a Web
site that features gay pornographic images.
The pictures allegedly showed each of the
wrestlers naked or partially clothed. A
membership to the Web site costs $24.95 per
month.
NCAA athletes are not allowed to knowingly
let pictures of themselves be used for
commercial purposes. Athletes would be
considered ineligible for competition if they
accept any compensation or permit the use of
their image to advertise, recommend or
promote directly any commercial endeavor.
White said both Jordan and Donahoe had
violated the rule and said each wrestler
would have to apply to the NCAA for
reinstatement if they were to choose to
wrestle for another school.
Nebraska coach Mark Manning, in a statement
released by the athletic department, said
this incident was not the sole factor
considered before the decision was reached to
dismiss the two wrestlers.
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BREAKING
NEWS — Russians have bombed and
looted the city of Gori outside the breakaway
province of South Ossetia on their way deeper
into the country, witnesses said Wednesday.
Georgian
Security Council Chief Alexander Lomaia said
that the Russian military bombed Gori
Wednesday morning and entered the city. The
Russian military then let paramilitaries into
Gori who started massive looting.
An
AP reporter outside the city of Gori saw the
convoy speeding past and heading south.
The
accusation came less than 12 hours after
Georgia's president said he accepted a
cease-fire plan brokered by France. The
Russian president said that Russia was
halting military action because Georgia had
paid enough for its attack on South Ossetia,
a separatist region along the Russian border
with close ties to Moscow.
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A
group of Burger King employees in Ohio are
looking for new jobs after an Internet video
surfaced of one worker bathing in a store
sink, WDTN.com reported Tuesday.
The
video, which was posted on MySpace.com by an
employee calling himself “Mr. Unstable,”
shows the teen taking a nude bubble bath in a
large stainless steel sink as other employees
and a store manager looked on, WDTN.com
reported.
The
video eventually made it to health officials,
who were not amused.
"My
first thought was ‘Oh my God," Greene
County Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell
told WDTN.
All
of the employees involved were fired.
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Republican
Sen. Tom Coburn, who has drawn ire from
Democratic leaders in the Senate for blocking
a number of bills, is also in the crosshairs
of the Senate ethics committee for his
continuing to practice his profession of
delivering children.
Coburn
is a family practice physician who
specializes in obstetrics, but the ethics
panel has told the Oklahoma senator he can no
longer practice at the main hospital in his
home town, Muskogee, because it is run by a
for-profit organization.
Coburn
spokesman John Hart told FOXNews.com that the
ethics panel has wrongly interpreted Coburn's
work as an endorsement of the Muskogee
Regional Medical Center, a position Hart said
is "asinine."
Coburn
has said he'll keep doing what he's doing.
According
to a series of letters between the two
parties, the ethics panel has claimed Coburn
is violating a conflict-of-interest rule that
bans senators from affiliating "with a
firm, partnership, association or corporation
for the purpose of providing professional
services for
compensation; (2) (permitting) that
individual's name to be used by such a firm,
partnership, association or corporation; or
(3) (practicing) a profession for
compensation to any extent during regular
office hours of the Senate office in which
employed."
Letters
in the inquiry are signed by both Sens.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and John Cornyn,
R-Texas.
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Shelley
Malil had a busy career as a comic actor,
appearing in a huge hit movie, several TV
shows and a commercial that aired during the
Super Bowl. But the actor best known for his
part in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"
has now been charged with attempted murder
after his girlfriend was stabbed more than 20
times, authorities said.
Malil,
43, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday
afternoon in Vista, north of San Diego, said
Paul Levikow, a spokesman for the San Diego
County District Attorney's office.
Click
here for photos, more information on Malil
He
remained in custody on $2 million bail after
being charged with attempted murder with
special circumstances of premeditation,
causing great bodily injury and using a
deadly weapon, said Deputy District Attorney
Steven Carver. Malil faces a maximum sentence
of life in prison if convicted on all counts.
Authorities
confirmed the victim's identity as Kendra
Beebe. According to her Facebook page, she is
a 35-year-old mother of two who works as an
insurance broker in Carlsbad, a coastal
suburb.
She
was listed in critical condition Monday,
according to the San Diego Sheriff's
Department. Spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said
Tuesday she had no update on Beebe's
condition.
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The
United States has rejected an Israeli arms
request that would have improved Israel's
capability to attack Iran's nuclear
facilities, a frontpage report in Israel's
Haaretz newspaper said on Wednesday.
The
U.S. warned Israel against attacking, saying
such a strike would undermine American
interests, the paper said. The unsourced
report also says the U.S. demanded that
Israel give it a heads-up if it decides to
strike Iran.
Defense
Minister Ehud Barak did not deny the Haaretz
story and refused to discuss it in an
interview with Israeli Army Radio,
"It
would not be right to talk about these
things," Barak said, according to
Reuters.
Iran
is a "threat to the whole world order,
and there are many actions to be made in the
realm of intelligence and preventive
measures," Barak said.
The
United States "does not see an action
against Iran as the right thing to do at the
moment," the defense minister said, but
shared Israel's view that "no option
should be removed from the table".
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A
high school principal who set off a furor
after being quoted as saying that teenage
girls formed a pact to get pregnant has
resigned, weeks after his comments were
publicly questioned by the mayor.
Time
magazine reported in June that Joseph
Sullivan said a pact made by a group of teens
to get pregnant and raise their babies
together was at least partly behind a spike
in pregnancies at Gloucester High School.
Seventeen girls at the school became pregnant
this year — four times the usual number.
Sullivan
later said he did not recall using the word
"pact" but believed many of the
pregnancies were intentional.
The
theory arose amid a debate over whether to
dispense contraceptives at a school health
clinic without parents' knowledge.
Mayor
Carolyn Kirk said at a June 23 news
conference that she and school officials
could not confirm the existence of a pact and
had not invited Sullivan to the news
conference because they could not verify his
comments.
The
principal said in a statement released by his
attorney Tuesday that he believes the mayor
"publicly slandered my reputation, my
integrity and my intelligence" at the
news conference.
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Mosab
Hassan Yousef is an extraordinary young man
with an extraordinary story. He was born the
son of one of the most influential leaders of
the militant Hamas organization in the West
Bank and grew up in a strict Islamic family.
Now,
at 30 years old, he attends an evangelical
Christian church, Barabbas Road in San Diego,
Calif. He renounced his Muslim faith, left
his family behind in Ramallah and is seeking
asylum in the United States.
The
story of how his life unfolded is truly
amazing, whether you agree or disagree with
his views. Below is a transcript on an
exclusive FOX News interview with Hassan as
he tells firsthand how a West Bank Muslim
became a West Coast Christian.
•
Click
here to view video of Mosab Hassan Yousef
speaking out.
•
Click
here to view video 'Renouncing Islam.'
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Phelps
Wins 200m Butterfly for 10 Olympic Gold
Medal Michael
Phelps has become the winningest Olympic
athlete ever, earning his fourth gold medal
of the Beijing Games with a world record in
the 200-meter butterfly. The American touched
in 1 minute, 52.03 seconds, breaking his old
mark of 1:52.09 set at last year's world
championships in Australia. It was Phelps'
10th career gold medal, breaking a tie with
Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and two others for
most golds. He is 4-for-4 so far, setting
world records in each of his events.
Laszlo
Cseh of Hungary took the silver in 1:52.70.
Takeshi Matsuda of Japan got the bronze in
1:52.97.
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Congressional
Republicans are poised to shut down the
government if they are not allowed a vote on
new oil drilling legislation.
This
comes even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
indicated she could budge on allowing a
drilling vote, which so far she and her
Senate counterpart have blocked from seeing
daylight in Congress.
Current
bans on the Outer Continental Shelf and oil
shale drilling expire on the first day of the
coming fiscal year: Oct. 1. Now, Sen. Jim
DeMint, R-S.C., is leading a group of GOP
senators celebrating the day, which they have
dubbed "American Energy Freedom
Day."
"The
overwhelming majority of Republican Senators
have pledged to protect October 1 as American
Energy Freedom Day so we can reduce
dependence on foreign oil and lower the cost
of gas at the pump," DeMint said,
according to a release from his office.
"Many
people aren’t aware that the bans on
drilling must be renewed every year, and all
we have to do is allow these prohibitions to
expire on October 1. In just 50 days,
Americans will have the freedom to pursue
their own energy resources here at home. Our
letter is very straightforward: we will
actively oppose any effort to extend the bans
on offshore drilling and oil shale,"
DeMint said.
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Scrambling
to find ways to punish Russia for its
invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United
States and its allies are considering
expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of
wealthy nations and canceling an upcoming
joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush
administration officials said Tuesday.
But
with scant leverage in the face of an
emboldened Moscow, Washington and its friends
have been forced to face the uncomfortable
reality that their options are limited to
mainly symbolic measures, such as boycotting
Russian-hosted meetings and events, that may
have little or no long-term impact on
Russia's behavior, the officials said.
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There’s
a huge concern among conservative talk radio
hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness
Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry
due to equal time constraints. But speech
limits might not stop at radio. They could
even be extended to include the Internet and
“government dictating content policy.”
FCC
Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a
possibility after talking with bloggers at
the Heritage
Foundation in
Washington
,
D.C.
McDowell spoke about a recent FCC
vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain
Internet practices – expanding the
federal agency’s oversight of Internet
networks.
The
commissioner, a 2006
President Bush appointee, told the
Business & Media Institute the Fairness
Doctrine could be intertwined with the net
neutrality battle. The result might end with
the government regulating content on the Web,
he warned. McDowell, who was against
reprimanding Comcast, said the net neutrality
effort could win the support of “a few
isolated conservatives” who may not fully
realize the long-term effects of government
regulation.
“I
think the fear is that somehow large
corporations will censor their content, their
points of view, right,” McDowell said. “I
think the bigger concern for them should be
if you have government dictating content
policy, which by the way would have a big
First Amendment problem.”
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Sheriff's
department: Hayes likely died of stroke
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Isaac Hayes
apparently died of a stroke, officials with the sheriff's
department said Tuesday....
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Elvis
and Priscilla Barbies: A must have for fans
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The
marriage didn't last all that long, but for the Elvis Presley
faithful, the wedding day is special still. And now, Elvis fans
have the official, Graceland-approved Elvis and Priscilla
wedding dolls to remind them of that magical time....
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Paris
Hilton sued over lack of publicity for film
MIAMI (AP) -- Paris Hilton didn't
do enough pledging for a 2006 sorority comedy, according to a
lawsuit filed Tuesday....
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Judge
settles house dispute in Hasselfhoff divorce
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Hoff's
house is for sale, but not for the price he preferred. Los
Angeles Superior Court judge settled a dispute between David
Hasselhoff and ex-wife Pamela Bach, putting their house on the
market for $5.95 million....
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Britney
in MTV ads, but not confirmed for VMAs
NEW YORK (AP) -- Britney Spears
may get a shot at redemption during this year's MTV Video Music
Awards....
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Producer
sues Vanessa Hudgens for $5 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A music
producer has sued Vanessa Hudgens for $5 million, claiming the
actress and her father have repeatedly violated a contract and
failed to pay him his share of her earnings....
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`Indy'
heads to home video with Oct. 14 release
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Indiana Jones
entered the atomic age in his latest movie. Now he's joining the
Blu-ray era....
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Copy
of Beatles contract for sale in London
LONDON (AP) -- Brian Epstein's
copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that
proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London
next month....
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Fabian
to be honored by Jimmy Stewart museum
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will be honored by the museum dedicated to actor Jimmy
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Rising
Sun, Sunk
A
diver explores the wreckage of a Japanese World War II
fighter plane near the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.
The waters around Rabaul, which was a Japanese stronghold
during the war, are strewn with the broken remains of both
Allied and Axis warships and aircraft.
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