Katie Rees returns to the news spotlight by telling Inside Edition how not getting a second chance and keeping her Miss Nevada USA crowns affected her:
“When I saw them I was just devastated,” the 22-year-old aspiring actress tells the TV show “Inside Edition” in an interview to air Monday. “I was shocked. I’m not proud […]
Hilzoy needs a hobby or a new pet:
Recently, whenever life gets me down, I think to myself: Patrick Leahy is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee! — and suddenly I find myself grinning again.
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2006 was a banner year for sports stadium naming rights. Citibank agreed to fork over $400 million over 20 years to call the to-be-built New York Mets stadium CitiField. Action is also happening on the West Coast with Cisco and Oracle. This amounts to a boom for pro sports. Chris Isidore reports,
The average annual […]
Here are some highlights from the past week at TAM Money and Finance:
“Oil Prices Continue to Fall”
“Time Inc. Drops the Axe on Almost 300″
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The “Oprahfication” of America is a public and mostly needless display of emotion and sentiment to demonstrate one’s authenticity. Throughout her career Oprah Winfrey, the woman herself who became a billionaire by plucking the heartstrings of daytime (almost all female) television viewers, found a way to keep a dark part of her past quiet. At […]
The judge in the Scooter Libby trial needs more people for the jury pool. The defense is kicking off too many Bush bashers:
A federal judge is putting more potential jurors on standby in the CIA leak trial because so many people have been dismissed, mostly because of strong […]
Muqtada al-Sadr’s top aides has been arrested indicating the Iraqi government is intent on stopping Shia sectarian violence:
U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr’s top aides Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increased on the radical Shiite cleric’s militia ahead of a planned security crackdown in the capital.
Al-Sadr said in an […]
Charlie Sykes has dubbed the horrible story of an Oshkosh, WI girl locked in her room for two years the “Cinderella Case.” Like the fairy tale heroine the 13-year old was kept in her room for 20+ hours a day according to the criminal complaint. She only got brief respites to go to the bathroom […]
On almost-partisan lines the Senate passed an amendment that deleted a section of the Lobbying Reform Bill dealing with grassroots lobbying. There was a tempest in the blogosphere over the possibility it would require certain webloggers to register as lobbyists.
There’s something quite pernicious about a Congress (no matter what party) that attempts to limit the […]
“The only reason your entrails aren’t hanging from the windows is because I’m tired.”
[via The Corner]
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CAIR is bothered at 24 nuking Los Angeles. They must worry waves of Jack Bauer wannabes will invade their nearest mosque. The real story isn’t the advocacy group complaining about a TV show plot, but that it took them two days to do it. (And they can’t even get their day right on their statement.)
The […]
It’s time to give a little love for the little-known candidates who are running for President for no apparent reason other than because they can. These people have absolutely no chance of upsetting Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, or even long shot Tommy Thompson:
Michael Moriarty was the best Law & Order Assistant DA. […]
Spivak & Bice pull off one of their trademark hit pieces where they only appear to have something on a politician. Their target today is losing GOP Congressional candidate and former Speaker of the State Assembly John Gard.
After the election Gard hired his campaign manager Brandon Rosner for three weeks earning him $3500. Spivak […]
It’s now quiet time at old TAM HQ. Some retro/hanta/nairo/quasi-virus has me down for the count. It’s hard to write something borderline interesting when all I want to do is crawl back into my bed and sleep. Yet I pulled it off! That’s dedication. Here’s some reading and watching to keep you occupied until that […]
President Bush put his domestic terrorist eavesdropping program under the FISA court’s authority:
President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special court, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday.
“The president has determined not to reauthorize […]
