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Now the fourth Democrat to announce his retirement in four weeks, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) said this morning in a released statement that he will not run for re-election next year. Gordon, a moderate Democrat from a Republican-leaning district, follows three other Democratic congressmen in similar political situations -- Brian Baird (WA-3), John Tanner (TN-8), and Dennis Moore (KS-3). President Obama won Moore and Baird's districts in 2008, but both were also won by President Bush in 2004. "Turning 60 has led me to re-evaluate what's next," Gordon said in a statement. "I have an 8-year-old daughter and a wonderful...

Three agencies are teaming up with Sesame Street to prepare school children for the new threat of the H1N1 virus. The White House announced Tuesday morning that the Homeland Security, Education, and Health and Human Services departments are enlisting the help of Elmo and Gordon from the long-running educational show to teach children how to avoid H1N1, also know as the swine flu. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with the secretaries of those three agencies and other administration officials later Tuesday afternoon to discuss the threat. Elmo, Gordon, the Sesame Workshop and the federal agencies will try to...

Tensions between journalists and military officials are nothing new. But a bitter series of clashes between a top Navy spokesman and a Miami Herald military reporter reached a new, eye-opening level...In a letter to the paper's editor, Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon accused Carol Rosenberg of "multiple incidents of abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature." Gordon, who deals primarily with the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, said in the letter that this was a "formal sexual harassment complaint" and asked the Herald for a "thorough investigation." "Her behavior has been so atrocious over the years," Gordon said in an interview....

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 30, 2003 20:42:05 ET XXXXX HOLLYWOOD DEMS GATHER FOR 'HATE BUSH' MEETING AT HILTON **Exclusive** Top Hollywood activists and intellectuals are planning to gather this week in Beverly Hills for an event billed as 'Hate Bush,' the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! Laurie David [wife of SEINFELD creator Larry David] has sent out invites to the planned Tuesday evening meeting at the Hilton with the bold heading: 'Hate Bush 12/2 - Event' The message reads: "This is the most important meeting you can attend to prevent the advancement of the current extremist right wing agenda....

The Prime Minister last night saw off a concerted attempt to make him quit by promising to change his leadership style. In an unprecedented humiliation for a serving Premier, several former ministers demanded his head at a make-or-break meeting of Labour MPs. They said Gordon Brown was leading the party to disaster after it suffered its worst poll results since 1910, gaining just 15 per cent of the vote in the European elections. But former Labour leader Lord Kinnock rode to the Prime Minister's rescue, telling MPs that disunity would cost the party the next General Election. The majority of...

WHEN the quietly spoken Danish chef Rene Redzepi stood before a Melbourne audience last month and said he considered the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list more valuable to his business than even the hallowed European Michelin Guide, little did he know Noma, his Copenhagen eatery, was about to be elevated from No.10 to No.3 in the latest rankings, announced this week. Good times ahead for the Dane. But this year the real intrigue was not in the elevations or inclusions to the exalted list but the deletions. For the first time since the list began in 2002, Gordon Ramsay...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Key-State-Department-Appointments/ THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2009 President Obama Announces Key State Department Appointments WASHINGTON – Today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key State Department posts: Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations; Phil Gordon, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; and Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. President Obama said, "Each of these individuals brings a deep knowledge and expertise in their field, along with a commitment to strengthen American diplomacy to...

Gordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama. The Prime Minister flew home from his successful trip to Washington this morning with the 'special collector's box' of films hidden in his luggage. No 10 had tried to keep the present a secret, refusing to answer reporters who asked what President Obama had given to mark the reaffirmation of the special relationship. However, the Evening Standard discovered the truth through White House insiders.

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BRITAIN’S soft justice system hit a new low yesterday with plans to scrap prison sentences for burglars. Hundreds of thousands of crooks could escape jail every year under the proposals by advisers to the Lord Chief Justice. Those sentenced to short, sharp shock jail terms of less than 12 months for “less serious offences” – including burglary – should be handed community penalties instead, Even those who are likely to reoffend could walk free from court if it is believed they will go on to commit “non-serious offences”. And in a further blow, while courts must not be swayed by...

Gordon Brown said the attacks were "shocking and tragic" as he also promised the first ever "cross-government youth crime plan" would be published later next week. A teenager was among four victims of separate fatal stabbings which took place in London over the past day, as a fifth man fights for life.

Gordon Brown 'losing patience with Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe' Last Updated: 1:42am BST 12/04/2008 Gordon Brown has said the international community is losing patience with Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. The Prime Minister, who will travel next week to the UN Security Council in New York where he expected to discuss Zimbabwe with other world leaders, said he was "appalled by the signs that the regime is again resorting to intimidation and violence". He said that he could not understand why it was taking so long to announce the results of the March 29 elections, adding that "patience with the...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Until the cup of ice water sailed out of the upper deck and landed on Eric Gordon's mother, causing her to shriek in fright, I was going to applaud Illinois fans for handling the return of Gordon with as much restraint as can be expected. Illinois fans were never exactly classy on Thursday night, including chanting profanity at Gordon and cheering when he appeared to injure his elbow, but this wasn't a situation where the bar is set at classy. That wouldn't have been fair to Illinois' fans, because too much had been said and done. Gordon...

Gordon Brown today received a personal invitation to the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The invitation to the games, which take place in August, came as Mr Brown and his wife Sarah visited the People's University on the outskirts of Beijing on the first day of his official visit to China. Mr Brown and Mr Wen joined a question and answer session with students and watched exhibition matches between young British table tennis hopefuls and their Chinese counterparts. During the session, Mr Brown was asked if he would attend the Beijing games - which London will host...

Guess who owns the tallest hotel in Arizona: Westin? Hyatt? Ritz-Carlton? By 2009, the answer will be the City of Phoenix, which will open a 31-story, 1,000-room hotel offering “Sweet Sleeper” beds and other amenities. And if Mayor Phil Gordon has his way, Phoenix’s hotel gambit may double in size soon thereafter. The initial hotel is designed to serve visitors to the city’s expanding downtown convention center. Apparently, the private hotel industry, which is hardly averse to building in the Valley of the Sun, didn’t detect quite the enthusiasm for downtown conventions that the politicians did. So the city formed...

LONDON, July 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Newly appointed British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, writing to the homosexual online news centre, PinkNews, promised that his government would continue to promote the homosexual political agenda both at home and abroad. Brown praised the work of Labour in forwarding the homosexual political aims: "I think this Government has made a huge amount of progress: for example, we've equalised the age of consent, repealed Section 28 [that banned promotion of homosexuality "as a pretended family relationship" in schools], and made it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation.""I would like to think...

Gordon Brown's faltering debut at Prime Minister's Questions was down to nerves, his right-hand man said today. Ed Balls, the new Secretary of State for Schools, said Mr Brown had performed to the "best of his ability". But he admitted: "Anybody is nervous when talking to the nation." Mr Brown made a stuttering start in the Commons, at one point admitting he did not know the answer to a question as he had only been in the job for five days. Mr Balls brushed aside criticisms and said that in the end it would be Mr Brown's experience and "the...

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is increasingly expected to make a run for governor in four years. Such a run is anticipated by a number business lobbyists and political consultants. Gordon was front and center during the homestretch of this year's elections, helping fellow Democrats including congressional challenger Harry Mitchell and Gov. Janet Napolitano and reaching beyond the city of Phoenix. The Phoenix mayor appeared with former president Bill Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former vice president Al Gore during the key last days of the 2006 campaign. A Gordon aide also worked with Napolitano's re-election effort and Democratic legislative...

Azores set for Hurricane Gordon The Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic have been placed on high alert for Hurricane Gordon, which is due to hit the Portuguese territory shortly. People and livestock have been told to stay indoors as forecasters warn the hurricane will bring heavy rain and winds of 170km/h (105mph). Waves as high as 12 metres (40ft) are also predicted and the region's ports are expected to be the most exposed. Some 240,000 people live in the nine Azores islands. Farming and fishing are the mainstay of the economy of the islands, which lie about 1,500 km (930...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2006 – A workshop today and tomorrow at Fort Gordon, Ga., is providing career guidance for wounded servicemembers. The Defense Applicant Assistance Office, of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Army’s Installation Management Agency are sponsoring the “Hiring Heroes/Wounded Warriors Technical Workshop” and career fair at Fort Gordon’s Gordon Club. The program will provide transitional career and employment information for soldiers who have suffered injuries while supporting operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. DoD officials said the program is the first of its kind and will address issues such as benefits, entitlements and employment...

They would be surprised by how clean, orderly and relatively benign things are given the fact that it is a detention center for some of the worst terrorists on the planet.... Provisions are there for hygiene, massive medical oversight and care, and an extraordinary focus on feeding. I have an entire chapter written on the food service and nutrition. Americans might be somewhat upset to see that the detainees eat better than the American guards.... We did get to observe on-going interrogations behind glass with a detainee, an interrogator and a translator. In one instance, the detainee ate a box...

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Alex Gordon has yet to play a single game in the major leagues and yet his rookie card is the hottest in all of baseball, selling for as much as $2,550 in recent weeks. Is Gordon the Kansas City Royals' next great player? Could be. But that isn't why his card, which is No. 297 in Topps' 2006 set, is worth that kind of money. The piece of cardboard is worth that much only because it never should have been produced in the first place. Last year, in part to reduce confusion in the marketplace, the Major League Baseball Players...

Fox, NASCAR blasted for S-bomb during race Family advocates rev into attack mode as car called 'piece of s---' in broadcast Family advocates are revving up against Fox Television and NASCAR after a driver's crew chief uttered the S-word during a nationally broadcast race Sunday. The obscene word was aired during a car-to-crew conversation between driver Martin Truex, Jr. and his crew chief, Kevin Manion, at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. A frustrated Manion told his driver, "We missed the set-up today. It (the car) was a piece of s---." Fox announcer Mike Joy...

U.S. House of Representatives N E W S R E L E A S E For Immediate Release: October 21, 2005 Davis, Waxman, Sensenbrenner, Conyers, Boehlert, and Gordon React To GAO Report on Security Problems With Electronic Voting Systems Washington, D.C. - Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Judiciary Committee Chair F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), and Science Committee Chair Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Member Bart Gordon (D-TN), issued the following statements upon today's release of the Government Accountability Office's report, "Federal Efforts to Improve Security...

The story behind the speechOn June 5, 1973, Gordon Sinclair sat up in bed in Toronto and turned on his TV set. The United States had just pulled out of the Vietnamese War which had ended in a stalemate - a war fought daily on TV, over the radio and in the press. The aftermath of that war resulted in a world-wide sell-off of American investments, prices tumbled, the United States economy was in trouble. The war had also divided the American people, and at home and abroad it seemed everyone was lambasting the United States. He turned on his...

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The 9-11 Commission: gone but not, the commissioners hope, forgotten. Not content to rest on their laurels, after the Commission "disbanded as a government entity" last year, the 10 commissioners believed so strongly in the need for continued public discussion about terrorism that it formed the 9/11 Discourse Project. So the commissioners keep on ticking, like the Energizer Bunny, although without an official charter. This week, the group started a series of eight public hearings this week called "The Unfinished Agenda" which are designed to assess government progress in implementing Commission recommendations. Why? In the words of Vice Chairman Lee...

PINE LAKE, Ga. - A Wisconsin man who fatally shot a police officer during a traffic stop and then killed himself inside a post office had been involved in a standoff with police before and was wanted in his home state for violating his supervised release from prison, authorities said Friday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 31) - Robby Gordon was not being critical of Danica Patrick when he said she had an unfair weight advantage in the Indianapolis 500. Rather, he said he was simply discussing a flaw in the Indy Racing League's rules. "The only thing I was saying was that I have a problem with the rule, not any particular driver," Gordon said Tuesday. "I've been impressed with Danica from the first time she got in an IRL car earlier this year, and I certainly did not mean to disrespect her or any other driver." Patrick wowed the racing world...

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When murder suspect Gordon Weaver skipped out on $300,000 bail while awaiting trial in the 1999 death of his wife, Jean, the fugitive White Bear Lake businessman reportedly turned to "the only two people from my past I can trust." In a new twist in the case, White Bear Lake police detail, in a series of reports, how they believe Weaver sought help from his parents, and how Lawrence and Delores Weaver helped their fugitive son, who used the alias David Carson, avoid capture for four years.

Canada--Famed Canadian balladeer, Gordon Lightfoot, whose epic ballad The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald chronicled the last minutes of an otherwise obscure, industrial maritime disaster, has weighed in again with another blow-by-blow account of a more recent near tragedy. "When I saw the Norwegian Dawn's harrowing story on C-Span, I had to act," said Lightfoot. “The thing practically wrote itself.” Some say that Lightfoot’s deft touch with haunting, almost ethereal lyrics makes his new ballad, The List of the Norwegian Dawn, a potentially instant hit. “I can hear the song in my head already,” said one fan of Lightfoot. “This...

PHOENIX - State lawmakers approved four measures Tuesday all aimed at least in part at the problem of people who cross the border illegally. On a 39-19 margin the House gave final approval to legislation that would allow a judge to impose a harsher sentence on someone convicted of a crime solely because that person is not in this country legally. The House also approved: € Denying bail to illegal entrants accused of certain crimes; € New laws designed to crack down on human smuggling, and; € Pursuing the construction of private prisons in Mexico to house citizens of that...

February is Black History Month. It is also the birthday month of George Washington, our first president and father of our country. And it is the birthday month of John Brown Gordon of Georgia. And who is he? John B. Gordon, born February 6, 1832, was an orator, lawyer, statesman, soldier, publisher and governor of the state of Georgia. He is best known as one of General Robert E. Lee's generals. At Appomattox, his corps encounter with the soldier's under Joshua Chamberlain is a classic story that began the healing of the country after four years of terrible bloodshed. Carter...

DETROIT (AP) - David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution. So the Detroit Democrat and a handful of other anti-Bush groups across the country are urging others of like mind to withhold their cash and labor on Inauguration Day - from all businesses. They don't think they'll inflict a huge economic pain, but...

There was a dose of commiseration and some quiet lamenting about a presidential election lost, but the focus of the people crowded into a Beacon Hill home last night was what they can do now. Or, as Seattle lawyer Randy Gordon put it: "How to take the positive energy of engagement and enragement and move forward." The "house party" was one of dozens in the Seattle area and thousands held simultaneously across the country that were organized by MoveOn, a fast-growing political-action group aimed at getting "moderate to progressive" candidates into office. Key issues, from the Iraq war to same-sex...

Democratic Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is coming under fire from some minority groups for his endorsement of a conservative Republican candidate for Maricopa County attorney.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CORNYN). The Senator from Oregon is recognized.    Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I thank Senator Allard for his willingness to change and clarify the proposal he makes today so that it leaves open to the States the elbow room that is appropriate to define legal rights for nontraditional families, gays and lesbians, and others.    It is a fact that sociologists say marriage, as we have traditionally known and practiced it, is the ideal circumstance for the creation and rearing and nurturing of children. But it is a fact that not all children have the opportunity of a...

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's comedy routine masquerading as a State of the City address yesterday was hilarious. He said that Valley cities should stop giving subsidies to developers and spend the money on education and public safety instead. Ha, ha, ha! Guffaw, guffaw, guffaw! This is the same guy who wants to spend $2.3 billion on a light rail system that will actually increase pollution and have a negligible effect on traffic. He also supports nearly $1 billion in total for a biotech center and an expanded convention center in an era of excess biotech investment and excess convention capacity...

(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes public corruption, contends that the federal government is deliberately delaying the trial of its client, Peter Paul, to keep him from further publicizing irregularities and corruption surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. Just days after a motion was filed to have criminal charges against Mr. Paul dropped because he wasn’t given a speedy trial, federal prosecutors added a new defendant to the case, postponing Mr. Paul’s trial until early September. Mr. Paul already has spent seven months in a U.S. jail after spending more than two years in...

It sounds to me like you are breaking INS Law: “A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he assists an illegal alien she/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions. Section...

<p>PHOENIX - City Hall rolled out the red carpet Monday, formally welcoming new Mayor Phil Gordon to office during an inaugural extravaganza attended by more than 1,300 people.</p> <p>"I am humbled and honored to be here before you," Gordon said.</p>

In the now world-famous libel suit between Holocaust Denier David Irving and Dr. Deoborah Lipstadt, Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher. Lipstadt had written that Irving was a Nazi apologist and admirer of Hitler. She had asserted that Irving was a Holocaust Denier who had distorted facts and manipulated documents to prove that there had been no genocide of Jews during World War II. Irving sued for libel. He claimed that Lipstadt damaged his reputation and credentials as a serious historian and writer. Lipstadt's claims against Irving were in part based on Irving's own efforts as apologist for and promoter...

Gordon Brown has raised the stakes in the battle over a new European constitution by demanding categorical assurances that it will not lead to the harmonisation of taxes and a federal European state. Gordon Brown has put further distance between himself and the Prime Minister Returning to the political front line after two weeks paternity leave, the Chancellor exposes a growing rift between the Treasury and No 10 over the importance of the proposed constitution for a 25-member European Union. Writing in The Telegraph today Mr Brown calls on EU leaders explicitly to reject "grandiose schemes" for harmonising corporate and...

<p>Phil Gordon wants to get Phoenix City Hall into the education business, and his proposal drew a hearty endorsement Wednesday from Gov. Janet Napolitano.</p> <p>"I can think of no one better qualified to be our next mayor and to work with us on education issues," Napolitano said at a news conference held before a group of elementary-school teachers.</p>

<p>The new Jeff Gordon lives part time in a Manhattan apartment and takes his girlfriend to out-of-the-way nightspots. He vacations in the Hamptons. He jokes on TV about being cleaned out by divorce lawyers and freely admits that personal turmoil affected his driving last year. He's more willing to speak his mind. And he no longer goes out of his way to thank God in victory lane.</p>

Second Thoughts By William W. Lawrence 05/20/2003The Inquirer, last week, somewhat buried the story about Walker Lundy, the 60-year-old editor who walked out on them just after 17 months. The story was played in the "local news" section below the fold.Lundy was hired to "reinvigorate" the dying publication, but decided to smell roses instead.In his resignation letter, Lundy said he looks forward to retirement: "People tell me roses have an odor about them, and I want to see if that's true. Plus, I want to live on a lake and drive a boat fast. And read a million books. And...

A Credit to the Corporate Raider Stuart K. Hayashi The media's exploitation of the 2001 corporate scandals in its hysterical (and popular) campaign to defame businesspeople in general harkens back to another anti-capitalist witch hunt they conducted in the 1980s. That era is now pejoratively dubbed "the Decade of Greed," as it saw the proliferation of honest but controversial characters known as "corporate raiders." "Corporate raiders" are the mavericks who launch "hostile takeovers," trying to take over failing mega-corporations for themselves. (Successful companies have higher stock prices and are thus harder to buy out.) To do this in the...