USATODAY.com: For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday.
The survey shows that the New York senator and former first lady has broadened her support nationwide over the past […]
The Scotsman:
LONG, pointed kitchen knives should be banned as part of a concerted effort to reduce the terrible injuries and deaths caused by stabbing attacks, doctors warned today.
Accident and emergency medics claim the knives serve no useful purpose in the kitchen but are proving deadly on the streets of Britain, with the doctors claiming the […]
New York Times:
President George W. Bush today pledged millions of dollars in direct American aid for the Palestinian Authority, providing a tangible lift and a verbal endorsement to its leader, President Mahmoud Abbas, during a symbolically important White House visit.
I am far from sure I approve of this. Abbas has indeed made some baby […]
Vodkapundit:
I’m hearing quite a bit of chatter through the USAF contractor grapevine that Zarqawi is dead. The only reason I mention it here is, the rumor is apparently rampant at Hurlburt AFB, home of the Air Force Special Ops guys, some of whom would be in a position to know such things.
I for one won’t […]
This Times Online article about why the Europeans seem so opposed to the EU constitution in interesting:
But before we assume that the federalists will simply give up in desperation, it is worth considering another possible explanation for the popular revolt against European elites. In Sunday’s German election, which effectively destroyed Gerhard Schroder’s Government, his recent […]
This USATODAY story about military families is a must read.
Military families make the conscious decision to be engaged in ‘extreme citizenship.’ When we are called, we will stand. We choose this life understanding that there is a constitutional role for the military. That role is not to make policy, but to respond with ability and […]
Reuters.com:
A new opinion poll on Thursday put France firmly on course to reject the European Union’s new constitution, increasing pressure on President Jacques Chirac before his final plea to voters to back the charter.
Chirac was due to make a nationwide television address at 8:00 p.m. (1800 GMT), seen as his last chance to persuade […]
OpinionJournal :
The American sugar industry is so strongly advantaged by quotas, tariffs and subsidies that total sugar imports have declined by about a third since the 1990s. Cafta would allow additional sugar imports from the Central American nations totaling 107,000 metric tons in the first year. Annual U.S. sugar production is about 7.8 million metric […]
Morris evaluates the power ramifications of the Senate deal, and how this may represent a fundamental shift in how things stack up in other negotiations in The Hill:
But whatever their motives, let’s celebrate the fact that there now exists, in effect, a third-party caucus in the Senate of moderates from both parties. They may offer […]
webpronews.com:
Macronix, Infineon, and IBM are combining efforts to investigate the potential of a new kind of computer memory that may change the face of processing. It’s called phase-change memory (PCM).
Still in the early stages of development, researchers for the tech giants report that PCM uses a method of data storage that works by changing the […]
