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The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his...

Per WABC local news

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Results from an initial air sampling after North Korea's announced nuclear test showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said Friday. The test results do not necessarily mean the North Korean blast was not a nuclear explosion, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the sampling results.

When it comes to outrage, parents of toddlers know how to make themselves heard. Skip to next paragraph Readers’ Opinions Forum: Television The Public Broadcasting Service has weathered recent criticism from free-speech advocates saying that the network is being overly cautious in a new policy to censor foul language in nonfiction programs by digitally obscuring the mouths of speakers. But the outcry has been dwarfed by the thousands of complaints, mostly from parents, over the PBS Kids Sprout network’s firing of Melanie Martinez, the host of “The Good Night Show,” after learning that she appeared years ago in two videos...

Caught the last two minutes of Hardball. Matthews had corralled 6 Republicans at the Tennessee convention to ask who they would be voting for. The three men said Frist. Two women said Rice. I didn't catch the third woman. When he asked if they would vote for McCain they all said no. Chris looked like he would pass out, because John is his boy. He asked them again and this time they said he was a fence sitter and an opportunist. It was a golden moment. Try to catch it on the repeat.

There was a time when the press was the strongest guardian of free expression in this democracy. Stories and celebrations of intrepid and courageous reporters are many within the press corps. Cases such as New York Times v. Sullivan in the 1960s were litigated so that the press could report on and examine public officials with the unfettered reporting a free people deserved. In the 1970s the Pentagon Papers case reaffirmed the proposition that issues of public importance were fully protected by the First Amendment.

He wasn't very clever. He wasn't very nice. And he's been trying to make it up to a certain red-haired columnist ever since. MAUREEN DOWD doesn't like me. This is not unusual. But unlike a lot of people, the New York Times columnist has a good reason.

Once again, Steven Spielberg transforms a serious subject—an historic act of Arab terrorism—into a skillfully arranged horror show, trivializing another example of 20th century barbarism. Recalling the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich, West Germany, Olympic Games, in which 11 Israeli athletes were seized and murdered, Munich tracks besieged Israel's response. It makes for a slow motion wreck.

Per TV report. No one was hurt. King said he is not sure if it was meant for him. There is also a bank by his office.

Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week. His return has created heightened concern among White House officials and their allies that Fitzgerald may be preparing to bring indictments when a federal grand jury that has been investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity expires at the end of October. Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, tells NEWSWEEK that, in his last...

August 28, 2005 -- FORMER First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and her longtime boyfriend Ian Klaus have called it quits. "They are no longer together," a source close to Clinton confirmed. And Klaus isn't wasting any time getting back to the dating business. Early last week, the tousled-haired history buff - having recently returned from a lengthy stint in Iraq doing humanitarian work - was seen romancing a "curly blond-haired girl, looking very much together," at the new downtown in spot, Employees Only on Hudson Street, another reliable source told PAGE SIX. "It was a date, a romantic thing," says the...

Quick story. In the mid 1980s I went to a fancy Fifth Av. party for Senator Ted Kennedy. There were journalists there and lots of other bigwigs. The only time I'd seen Kennedy before was at a campaign stop in 1979 when he'd been seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. He might have won, but I realized at the party that it would have been a terrible thing because he was the drunkest human being I had ever encountered in my life, and chances were that it hadn't just started that night. Sure, he already had this reputation, but it was...

Brookhaven town officials Friday launched another volley in their ongoing war on illegal housing, ordering the closing of three residences they said housed as many as 90 tenants. In documents filed in State Supreme Court in Riverhead, the town alleged that the conditions in the houses, all zoned for single-family -- one in Ronkonkoma and two in Farmingville -- were filthy and overcrowded, with fire hazards such as exposed wiring and blocked exits. The homeowners each face possible $10,000 fines for violations of town codes, officials said. Two of the homeowners could not be reached for comment, but one said...

King was just interviewed on CNN. He attacked both of the Wilsons. He emphasized the numerous lies that Joe Wilson continues to spread, even though a Senate committee has already established that the truth is foreign to Wilson. He correctly noted that Mrs. Wilson knew her husband was spreading falsehoods about the President's office and as a CIA agent she should be held accountable. When Solidad O'Brien asked if Rove should face disciplinary action for naming a CIA agent King said Rove should be given an award. The look on O'Brian's face was priceless.

Sen. Clinton demanded Thursday that Gov. George Pataki repudiate a top White House advisor's comments about liberals' reaction to Sept. • What do you think?

June 12, 2005 -- Sept. 11 widow Kathy Trant has turned her Long Island home into a $2 million showcase, traveled from the Vatican to Las Vegas, blown $500,000 on shoes, and bought breast jobs for pals and even strangers. In the 31/2 years since her husband, Dan, died in the World Trade Center attacks, she has burned through nearly all the more than $5 million she received in compensation and donations. She says she treated the millions "like Monopoly money." The mother of three has become a self-described "shopoholic" - and her compulsive buying has left her with intense...

Just in on ABC News. He and his family admit it through his lawyer. Will be in upcoming Vanity Fair.

FYI: Political pundit Anne Coulter has finally made it. The blond bombshell's mouthing off has landed her on the cover of Time Magazine. Expect to see her this Monday if nothing else ground-breaking happens in the world ...

FBI pick up a former tenant of the home. He used their ATM card.