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Remember Hillary Clinton? Who would've thought Secretary of State, the highest post in the cabinet, would've been such an effective black hole for the would be president. That's led me to wonder what it is she could be doing to bide her time until 2012..... 10. Amateur fashion design, somebody has to bring sexy back to cankles. 9. Escapes the pain of losing to Obama with a bubble bath, scented candles, a box of chocolates, a glass of wine, and her Monica Lewinsky scrapbook. 8. Lobbies speculators in the oil and gold markets to start pushing pants suits. 7....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even seemingly gentle antibiotics may severely disrupt the balance of microbes living in the gut, with unforeseen health consequences, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. An intimate study of three women given ciprofloxacin showed the drug suppressed entire populations of beneficial bacteria, and at least one woman took months to recover. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports the common wisdom that antibiotics can damage the "good" germs living in the body. It may also support the idea behind the development of so-called probiotic products including yogurt with live cultures of bacteria.

Nikkei Dips Slightly, While Surging Yen Is The Canary In The Coalmine Joe Weisenthal Sep. 13, 2010, 8:38 PM So far the opening of Japanese trading is a big snoozefest. The Nikkei is going nowhere fast. Image: Nikkei More interesting is what's going on in the yen, which continues to crush the dollar, and as we noted earlier, is definitely inconsistent with the seemingly bullish tone of global equities. It's rallying again in recent action.[snip]

TV Commercials, Radio Commercials, Billboards, Road signs. Danny Heck is running for Congress in Washington State. It is impossible to know he is a democrat.

Why was this September 11th different from all other September 11ths? Because on this September 11th, there were are signs of reconstruction, even rededication, at Ground Zero. Tangible, concrete, noisy, dusty, comforting, encouraging signs. The whole place, above and below ground, was coming alive again. At last. This year, what had been only a yawning crater for so long was filled with cranes, towers, tracks, tunnels ... and trees. You could see green again. Life. The first white oak trees, each about 30 feet tall, arrived last month. Carefully cultivated at a nursery just across the East River in Monmouth...

Kim’s poor health sets back meet, says source September 14, 2010 A deterioration in the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has delayed a long-awaited Workers’ Party meeting in Pyongyang, a South Korean government official told the JoongAng Daily yesterday. But Kim is not ill enough for the meeting to be canceled altogether and it will be convened soon, said the official, who asked not to be identified. The communist leader’s health worsened after his unexpected visit to China last month, according to the source. Kim was expected any day to preside over a meeting of the Workers’ Party,...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – The publisher of a Maine newspaper has apologized for giving Page One coverage to the end of Ramadan on Sept. 11 without mention of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Saturday’s print edition of The Portland Press Herald featured a front-page photo of Muslims praying at the end of the Muslim holy month. It published coverage of events marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks the next day. Editor and publisher Richard Connor issued a front-page apology to readers who were offended. Connor says the celebration by 3,000 Muslims at the Portland Expo warranted...

FreedomWorks has released a new media campaign to highlight diversity in the Tea Party Movement. Called Diverse Tea, the campaign includes a website and a newspaper ad that reads in part, "We are black, brown, and white. We are Jew and gentile. We are from different communities, various backgrounds, and all races, colors, and creeds. We will Take America Back, not from Democrats or Republicans, but from an arrogant political class that puts its interests before those of all Americans."

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The Washington Post has repeatedly featured a full-page ad in recent days for a Get Motivated! Business Seminar in Washington in October. One of the big names at the event (alongside Colin Powell, Steve Forbes, and Rudy Giuliani) is disgraced former CBS anchor Dan Rather, teaching "How to Communicate Effectively." Then the ad copy gets ridiculous: Dan Rather, Legendary News Anchor and Journalist, has covered every major story of the last 50 years, with distinction and a fierce dedication to hard news. He is always ready to deliver the truth the way it is! [Emphasis mine.] Hello, Better Business Bureau?...

Actually, he said it was capricious and destructive and he called Demint’s endorsement of O’Donnell irresponsible. Wow!

This summer was filled with bad economic news. But let’s not dwell on the 9.5 percent unemployment rate. Let’s be optimistic -- rationally. After all, life is good, and getting better. That’s the theme of a new book, “The Rational Optimist,” by Matt Ridley. “Since 1800, the population of the world has multiplied six times, yet average life expectancy has more than doubled and real income has risen more than nine times,” Ridley writes. And, even with all those extra mouths to feed, “The United Nations estimates that poverty was reduced more in the last 50 years than in the...

College PC purchases are down for the 4th year in a row, but the Mac's share is growing.Click to enlarge. Apple (AAPL) products play an oversized role in the small survey of college campuses (seven schools, 212 students) released Monday by Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst.Although spending patterns were mixed -- fewer PCs and MP3 players, more TVs, mobile phones and digital cameras -- "Apple's share of student spending," writes Ernst, "increased materially."Specifically, he writes: Apple's share of computers purchased in the last three months rose to 38% from the 32% recorded in 2009, 29% in 2009, and 14% in...

America's foundation rests on an aversion to taxes. This is true, not just in its inception as a nation, but prior to it and throughout its existence. Admittedly, as a nation we have lost sight of this of late. Yet the old pattern still lies just beneath the surface and hopefully is about to reassert itself. The central role that Americans’ resistance to taxes played in our independence from Britain is well known. However Alvin Rabushka, in his 2008 comprehensive study, Taxation in Colonial America, makes it clear our affinity for low taxes well pre-dates our independence. Low taxes influenced...

Sarah Palin has not even come close to announcing that she is going to run for President. But, doesn't it seem inevitable? We know this because of her current and past actions. She knows this because of the impact her very presence makes everywhere. Every time she stirs the passions of supporters and detractors she generates political gold in the form of attention. That alone gives her a seemingly significant chance to win any election, because swing voters in these times seem to be choosing fighters, not diplomats. Palin also knows she is going to run because of the Hillary...

Two recent strings of racial attacks—one black on white in Des Moines Iowa, the other black on Hispanic in Staten Island, New York—elicited very different reactions from both law enforcement and the mainstream media. Since April, Staten Island law enforcement filed 11 “bias related” crimes committed against Mexicans, 10 of which were perpetrated by blacks. The Los Angeles Times gave an example on August 18 where, “a Mexican teen-ager was robbed by a young black man armed with a knife who used racial slurs.” The real culprit to the liberals in New York are not the thugs who committed the...

Humans must continue exploring space, if only for the romance of it, and time travel should be possible, but engineers will have to figure out a way to warp space-time to be sure, famed physicist Stephen Hawking says.

Do Not Forget to vote in tomorrow's New York State Primary! Tea Party List Gov > Carl Paladino Lt Gov > Thomas Ognibene US Senate > Gary Bernsten US Senate > David Malpass US House > David Brumberg ------------------ Time to get revved up about the Tea Party!

With a firm exit date in sight, outgoing CNN host Larry King is apparently weighing his options. We have already reported that King may be plotting a return to radio with Ryan Seacrest, but it looks like the broadcasting legend may seriously be eying another TV gig… as a sports host. Broadcasting & Cable’s Ben Grossman caught up with King at a Los Angeles Angels game, and dropped this little nugget in his column: We had a nice chat, and he told me he doesn’t feel that old, and is in fine health outside of a sore hip once in...

For House Democrats, planning for a future without Speaker Nancy Pelosi is neither pleasant nor easy. But as poll results worsen and a Republican-controlled House looks more and more likely, Democrats are beginning to realize they face a top-to-bottom leadership shake-up if the powerful speaker steps aside in a Democratic minority. For the most part, Democrats have no obvious road map, no heir apparent to the Pelosi mantle and a fairly thin bench around which to plan the future of their party. After the election, Democrats would face a power vacuum in the lower ranks — assuming current House Majority...