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The ousted president of Honduras and the interim leader of the country have agreed to hold talks mediated by Costa Rica's president, the US secretary of state has said. Oscar Arias will support negotiations between Manuel Zelaya and Robert Micheletti, the interim president, Hillary Clinton said after talks with Zelaya in Washington. "We are supporting the efforts that the OAS [Organisation of American States] has made but we think there needs to be a specific mediator," Clinton said on Tuesday. "To that end, we are supporting President Arias of Costa Rica to serve in this important role. "President Zelaya ......

A group of the biggest U.S. banks said they would stop accepting California's IOUs on Friday, adding pressure on the state to close its $26.3 billion annual budget gap. The development is the latest twist in California's struggle to deal with the effects of the recession. After state leaders failed to agree on budget solutions last week, California began issuing IOUs -- or "individual registered warrants" -- to hundreds of thousands of creditors. State Controller John Chiang said that without IOUs, California would run out of cash by July's end. But now, if California continues to issue the IOUs, creditors...

T. Boone Pickens’ widely advertised plan to build the world’s largest wind farm has been abandoned. T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, has abandoned his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News that was confirmed by a spokesman for Mr. Pickens. The report states that Mr. Pickens will instead build a handful of smaller wind farms around the Midwest. Possible locations include Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Kansas and Texas. The Texas Panhandle was to be the site of the original wind farm. Mr. Pickens has said in the past that he...

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On Tuesday Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves denied Churchill's motion for reinstatement of employment as well as any "front" pay. It was part of a decision where Naves granted CU and the Board of Regents immunity from being sued, which vacates the jury verdict from April of this year. Churchill essentially got nothing. “We believe the judge appropriately applied the law to recognize the Board of Regents’ role as a quasi-judicial body. This ruling recognizes that the regents have to make important and difficult decisions. The threat of litigation should not be used to influence those decisions,” said...

Most Americans’ opinions of her not affected by resignation

BELGRADE -- Boris Tadić and Mahmoud Abbas agree that the Kosovo question and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis can be resolved by upholding international law. Abbas and Tadić are seen in Belgrade (Tanjug) The presidents of Serbia and the Palestinian Authority agreed that conflicts around the world, including in Kosovo and the Middle East, could be settled through negotiations and without imposed solutions. Abbas, who is in Belgrade at Tadić’s invitation, said that the two countries had several decades of good relations behind them, forged through the Non-Aligned Movement, adding that he hoped that the movement’s 50th anniversary in 2011 would be...

The last time I got a Cabela's $100 off (off of $500) was in April when I bought my last gun. They usually go out 4x a year, so isn't it time for another one? Years ago, it was a $150 coupon, and then it dropped to $100, and now I am fearful they ill do away with it entirely. I called Cabela's support and they didn't know anything. Anyone have a clue? TIA

“Did policymakers in Rhode Island and the Division of Taxation not get the hint that passing a law in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and current Supreme Court jurisprudence would cause their own in-state advertisers to lose business? “

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell Monday demanded that the so-called mainstream media accurately report the facts about President Barack Obama’s plunging poll numbers. ********************************************************* ********************************************************* Media Research Center President Brent Bozell Monday demanded that the so-called mainstream media accurately report the facts about President Barack Obama’s plunging poll numbers. Bozell urged the nation’s liberal newspapers and TV networks to point out the fact that Americans are growing vastly more conservative as voter approval ratings tank to their lowest levels for the most radically liberal President in our nation’s history. [Editor’s Note: See “Rasmussen Poll: Obama’s Popularity Plunging:” — Go...

It wouldn’t be unusual to see an avid Michael Jackson fan dressed up as the King of Pop at the late singer’s memorial. Unless that fan is Corey Feldman. The iconic 80s actor made quite the entrance as he arrived to the late pop singer’s memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. Wearing a replica of Jackson’s famous military jacket, sunglasses and a black fedora, Feldman, 37, drew puzzled looks, including one from John Mayer, as he used a Kleenex to wipe away his tears, Usmagazine.com reports. Jackson’s public memorial appears to have hit a soft...

Obama's White House is spending more than $80,000 a week to staff its old and new media offices. Add the price of speechwriters and the White House communications tab reaches nearly $100,000 a week, or nearly $5 million a year-and that is for salaries alone. Based on the coverage the President has garnered so far, it is money well spent. Accuracy In Media gathered the data from the White House's annual salary report to Congress, which was released last week. AIM identified a total of 66 staffers with some connection to Obama's messaging machine-press secretaries and assistants, communications directors, new...

The competition for jobs intensified in May, the government said Tuesday, as employers advertised more positions but the number of people looking for them also increased. The Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey found there were 2.6 million positions available at the end of May, up from 2.5 million in April. While that's good news, it's down from 4 million a year earlier. The JOLTS report demonstrates that even in a recession, jobs do become available and companies hire new workers. It's part of what economists like to call "churn" in the labor market: Millions of people are...

Instead of accepting responsibility California Democrats are willing to blame just about anyone for California’s imminent bankruptcy. In a brief reality check, here are just a few more reasoned arguments concerning Who Killed California.Joel Kotkin of Chapman University and editor of newgeography.com, lists his top five culprits for who cooked the Golden State’s Goose: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Public Sector unions, the Enviormental movement, the Busines Community(!), and Californians in general for not voting the nitwits out. Dan Walters counters the crocodile tears of Senator Mark DeSaulnier and others of his ilk that it’s all Prop 13’s fault. Walters notes that California’s...

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is second only to Mitt Romney as the presidential candidate Republican voters say they’ll vote for in 2012 state GOP primaries, but she’s also one of two candidates they least hope wins the party’s nomination.

Yikes! Obama Screws Up Story of How He Met Michelle (Moscow Video)Politico: “I don’t know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I’m sure that you’re all going to have wonderful careers,” he said as he warmed up the audience before delivering a commencement speech at an economics school in Moscow Tuesday. Obama seemed to be playing off an introduction that referred to him meeting his future wife, Michelle Robinson, while he was a student. But the truth is that the couple met not “in class” but at a law firm...

Rev. Rob Schenck was among invited guests at a special reception held in the US Senate Hart Office Building today for newly sworn US Senator Al Franken of Minnesota. Rev. Schenck cheerfully greeted Sen. Franken with a good-natured question about the former comedian's caustic and often insulting jokes about Christians and what they believe. Photo: Rev. Rob Schenck (L) greets new Senator Al Franken (R) with a question about the former comedian's caustic anti-Christian humor. Rev. Schenck is the president of both the National Clergy Council and it's lay affiliate, Faith and Action, a Christian missionary outreach to elected and...

Americans pay much more than they should for their food. Thanks to a thicket of subsidies and tariffs that support American farmers and tilt the growing field against cheaper foreign producers, we get ripped off twice: first as taxpayers who ante up for roughly $25 billion in agricultural subsidies each year ($4 billion for milk alone in 2006); then as consumers who pay higher prices at the checkout counter because we can't take advantage of low-price imports. Subsidies and tariffs were originally intended to help protect small farmers--a purpose they've largely outlived. They keep rolling on, though, because the only...

It isn't that President Obama's policies aren't working. It is just that the economy was so much worse off than anyone realized. -- Or so the Obama administration claims. Vice President Joe Biden repeated the mantra again this past Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Host George Stephanopoulos asked him how the 9.5 percent unemployment rate in June squared with the administration's prediction that if the stimulus package was passed, "unemployment will peak at about 8 percent." Biden replied: "we and everyone else misread the economy. The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures and most of...

FONTAINEBLEAU, France — French workers normally take off much of the summer, but this month, there is something of a revolution going on here at this former royal chateau roughly 30 miles southeast of Paris. The throngs of tourists will be jostling alongside stonemasons, restoration experts and other artisans paid by the French government’s $37 billion economic stimulus program. Their job? Maintain in pristine condition the 800-year-old palace of more than 1,500 rooms where Napoleon bid adieu before being exiled to Elba and where Marie Antoinette enjoyed a gilded boudoir. Besides Fontainebleau, about 50 French chateaus are to receive a...