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Harrell, Leach tour White House, meet the president BY DON WILLIAMS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL While other quarterbacks were keeping their fingers crossed Saturday for their chance at the Heisman Trophy, Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell was at the White House meeting the president. Harrell, Tech coach Mike Leach, Leach’s wife Sharon and Tech associate media relations director Blayne Beal got a private tour of the White House and had a 20-minute meeting with President Bush on Saturday morning and afternoon.

Two months ago, John McCain pulled Alaska Governor Sarah Palin from relative political obscurity and placed her into the world spotlight. Now, less then one week before the presidential election, Palin reflects on one of the biggest moments of her youth; winning her high school basketball state championship. Outside the Lines' Sal Paolantonio discusses the biggest game of her life with Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. 3:27 runtime

It had to happen. Less than two weeks before we vote for a new president, a white woman says a black man attacked her, then scarred her face, and says there was a political motive for it. Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old white volunteer for John McCain’s presidential campaign, says she was mugged at an ATM machine in Pittsburgh (my hometown) by a big black man. She further says he threw her down, then disfigured her by carving the letter “B” into her face with a sharp implement when he saw that she supported McCain, not Barack Obama.

The luster and popularity of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have faded, but this much remains certain: Regardless of the outcome of the election in 11 days, she will be around for a while as a force in Republican politics. She hasn't done for Sen. John McCain's ticket what the most giddy members of her party hoped back in September, after her blockbuster convention acceptance speech. She doesn't appear to have won the hearts and minds of independent voters in vast numbers, nor has she proved a magnet for waves of women who otherwise would vote Democratic. In a new Wall...

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt's push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency.

Cindy McCain was new to Washington and not yet 30 when she arrived at a luncheon for Congressional spouses to discover a problem with her name tag. It read “Carol McCain.” That was the well-liked wife John McCain had left to marry Cindy, to the disapproval of many in Washington. -snip- If Mr. McCain wins, she would have to return to the town she says she dislikes, attending the same sorts of luncheons she once fled from. But this time — maybe at the annual event that Congressional wives have for the first lady — the women of Washington, including...

AUSTIN – Joe Francis of Amarillo – a.k.a. the other Joe the Plumber – is king of his domain name. At least through Thursday. "Joe the Plumber" was relentlessly discussed in Wednesday's presidential debate – but that was an Ohio plumber who met Barack Obama while Mr. Obama campaigned recently in the state. The Web site joetheplumber.com belongs to Mr. Francis, and his office was flooded with calls, as if every Tom, Dick and Joe in town had sprung a leak.

Still, there is a choice to be made, and it is an easy one. Senator John McCain of Arizona.....

Dallas Republicans enthusiastically greeted Sarah Palin on Friday, fresh off her debate with Joe Biden.

AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.

Speaks for itself.

Scott Pelley gets rare access to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as he deals with the nation's unfolding economic crisis.

No further details at this time. Should speak for itself.....lets get it on!!

The way I read it, no indictment was returned today, but the process is not over.

Sammy has always been one of the good guys of rock and roll...entertainer, entrepreneur, family man. He's written and recorded several patriotic songs and counts Ted Nugent as one of his best industry friends. Politically, he's probably a mixed bag...'the man not the party' he says. ___________________________ The two never connected, which raises some lingering questions. “Why didn’t [Van Halen] say no when Pepsi Cola gave us a million dollars to use the song in a Pepsi Light commercial?” asks Hagar. “That’s when you say no. That isn’t the message of this song.” But when a potential future president is...

........... The professor of statistics at Texas A&M University organized a six-member team that compared the composition of bullet fragments from the JFK shooting with other bullets from the same manufacturer. The group found that those fragments weren't nearly as rare as the government's expert witness concluded in 1976, when Dr. Vincent P. Guinn determined that all five fragments came from two bullets fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. A third shot missed. "The claim was made that those five fragments could only have come from two bullets," Dr. Spiegelman said. "Our research showed it could have been two or more....

Just caught a blurb on Foxnews that Palin is being investigated by MSM that she somehow 'cheated' during the 1984 beauty contest. No further details at this point. I assume this is just opening another front on the all out destroy Palin campaign (by any means necessary). Will post details as they surface (or I might not because this seems to be pretty stupid).

Nice, short 3 min interview. I believe it occured last fall in conjunction with AZ gov Napolitono(who is not supporting Palin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZlWnCcBFpo

Kay Bailey Hutchison cautious in praising Sarah Palin ST. PAUL, Minn. – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison contrasted the full-throated defense of Sarah Palin by some in her party and lowered the bar Wednesday by offering her own statesman-like, cautious praise for the vice presidential nominee. Asked if Ms. Palin is ready to be vice president, Ms. Hutchison said that "she offers a lot to the ticket. We'll see in the coming weeks how she does, where she goes. And I think she's going to do fine."

It looks like Greta was wrong (previous post from today). ghramnesty said to go easy on his friend from South Carolina and that he was a really good person.