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.

- 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?

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY

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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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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.