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Three weeks after the cancellation of their conservative talk show, Jim Quinn and Rose Tennent will make their first public appearance at a holiday fundraiser Friday morning. The stars of "The War Room with Quinn & Rose" were originally scheduled to do a live broadcast during the event at the Geno Levi Salon near Donaldson's Crossroads in McMurray. Although it was announced Nov. 18 that they were no longer part of the Clear Channel lineup on WPGB 104.7-FM, Ms. Tennent confirmed in an email that "yes, we are doing the event. That is my pet charity at this time of...

People planning to give their loved one a nip and tuck at Christmas could be risking more than upsetting their partners – cheap seasonal offers with time limits are not to be recommended, a top surgeon has warned. Professor Peter Vogt, president of the German Society of Plastic Surgeons, said such offers, frequently available online, did not give potential patients time to consider what they really wanted done or the opportunity to get to know their possible surgeon. “Strongly discounted offers for aesthetic procedures such as breast enlargement and liposuction lead patients to decide for an aesthetic procedure that they...

The thought startles. Is Newt Gingrich America's Winston Churchill? The former Speaker has repeatedly dazzled in the ongoing series of GOP presidential debates. He is "the adult in the room," the man Republicans keep saying they would like to see on the debate stage with Barack Obama. The latest polls (Wall Street Journal, CBS, and Marist) have him vaulting into a tie with Mitt Romney behind Herman Cain or leapfrogging Cain to barely trail Romney. This video of a Frank Luntz focus group that appeared on Sean Hannity's TV show following a recent GOP debate is typical of the changing...

Directors and critics in the Middle East are divided about how Hollywood portrays Arabs. JERUSALEM — As he watched the news coverage of the Arab Spring, Palestinian filmmaker George Khleifi wondered what the TV footage might mean to the West. "If 30, 40 or 50 years ago this revolution in Egypt would have taken place, I think maybe not 10 percent of Americans would see it," Khleifi said. "Now with satellite and the internet — there is a revolution and Arabs are not who they thought they were." Khleifi hopes Hollywood will take cues from Tahrir Square to improve its...

Washington, May 15 (ANI): Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters often visited Osama bin Laden without endangering their safety in Abbottabad, Pakistan, documents and computer files seized from his compound revealed. The Telegraph quoted an Afghan Taliban commander as saying that bin laden had direct contact with his followers. Western intelligence chiefs had earlier thought that bin Laden's contact with the outside world was conducted via messages on memory sticks, but recent revelations depict a different story altogether. The commander also said when he last saw the terror leader in Abbottabad two years ago, he seemed healthy and well briefed...

State slaps local biz for Christian skate times.Accord - Holy roller skaters are in hot water with the state Division of Human Rights. Skate Time 209 offers residents a new wooden roller skating rink and a fancy skateboard park. In its hunt for customers, the business has "tot" skates and "tween" (ages 6-13) skates. There are family nights and adult disco parties. And there are "Christian skate times" on Sunday afternoons, Skate Time's ad in the April 19 Ulster County Press said. That ad is evidence of a human rights violation, according to the state Division of Human Rights. A...

Claudia Feldman of the Houston Chronicle conducted this interview with Al Gore: HOUSTON — At the end of the presidential campaign six years ago, Al Gore was political dead meat. Even supporters winced at his stiff campaign style, and a New York Times columnist who asked if he was a dud or a dude pronounced him a dud. That Gore is nowhere to be seen in "An Inconvenient Truth," which opened Friday. Instead, the star of the show is warm, funny, comfortable in his middle-aged body. He's taken on a battle of almost mythical scope — to save the planet...

LAS VEGAS, June 10 -- The newest provocateur in Democratic Party politics bounced through the corridors of the Riviera Hotel this weekend wearing jeans or baggy shorts, sneakers and a perpetually mischievous grin. His name is Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, and not many years ago, no party leader had heard of him. Today they are courting him and many like him. Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, is one of the most influential progressive bloggers in America today and a symbol of an expanding Internet-based movement that has led the attacks on President Bush while challenging the Democratic establishment. Moulitsas's message...

MICKEY ROURKE has pledged his support for US President GEORGE W BUSH's controversial foreign policy in Iraq. The SIN CITY actor, who is famed for being for being outspoken, has come forward as one of the few stars to support the war on terror. The former boxer says, "George is doing a hell of a job during very difficult times, more power to him. Screw all them people who don't like him."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI officers raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night, and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the unusual raid at the Rayburn House Office Building on Washington's Capitol Hill but would not say whose office was searched. "Agents of the FBI's Washington field office executed a search warrant this evening at Rayburn at approximately 7:15," Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said. Weierman said the search warrant was sealed and she could not confirm whose office...

Saturday was a tragic day for the Lawrence township fire department. One of their own was found dead following sex charges in Ohio. Now authorities are asking why. Tim Craney was in police custody after investigators say they caught him in an Internet sex sting Friday. Now Craney is dead. "The Lawrence township fire department is deeply saddened by the events of the last 24 hours and all of our members have been touched by this incident," Division Chief James King with the Lawrence township fire dept. said. Marion County Sheriff's deputies found Craney's body around 2:30 Saturday morning in...

A bright yellow slime mould that can grow to several metres in diameter has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged robot. The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from light, controls the robot's movement so that it too keeps out of light and seeks out dark places in which to hide itself. Klaus-Peter Zauner at the University of Southampton, UK, who developed the slime-controlled bot with colleagues from Kobe University in south-central Japan, says the idea is to find simpler ways to control a robot’s behaviour. "The computers we have today are very good for what we...

Swiss researchers have isolated a compound from blue-green algae that could become a drug candidate against Alzheimer's disease and other brain afflictions. But the scientists warn it could be years and plenty of money before any potential application appears on the drug market. It is believed to be the first time that a potent agent against Alzheimer's has been extracted from a type of cyanobacteria commonly known as 'pond scum.'

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 4: A city consumer court has asked a leading beverage company to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation to a buyer who found a dead fly in a whisky bottle of the company. "The very sight of a dead fly in such drink causes trauma to a consumer particularly when he detects the foreign object after consuming some quantity of the drink," observed the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission headed by President Justice J D Kapoor and Member Ruminita Mittal. Justice Kapoor rejected the contention of the company, Shaw Wallace distilleries, that there was no proof to...

Over the last six years we have seen this country take a turn for the worst. Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the country has experienced a lost of many of its most valued civil liberties and traditions. We have seen the re-emergence of the imperial presidency that claims the right to subvert the law in the interest of national security. We have seen the national debate become bogged down in partisan bickering rather than what is best for America. Very often I have been given to wonder why Americans seem to be all too complacent in this...

Academia has a well-deserved reputation as a citadel of the left, but conservatives made great strides on college campuses in 2005. There are now nearly 700 active, independent conservative groups at colleges and universities in all 50 states. Students started nearly four dozen new conservative campus newspapers in 2005, bringing the total to 153. Predictably, the advancing campus conservative movement draws a strong reaction from the entrenched campus left. The reaction comes in a variety of forms, from stringent speech regulations to outright violence. But it's always outrageous -- and never has it been more outrageous than in 2005. Five...

A Miramar family is mourning the loss of their toddler after a deadly freak accident. The boy -- Thomaris Waite -- would've turned 2 years old next month. Instead, he became trapped by an electric car window when he inadvertently pressed the switch. The toddler was in the car with his father, Thomas Waite, who had fallen asleep in the front seat while waiting for his wife and other child. They were in the medical building, 4500 Sheridan Street, visiting a pediatrician. Thomaris was transported to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in critical condition. Unfortunately, he died a short time later....

KINGFISHER -- Mysterious unrefined natural gas leaks erupting in rural Kingfisher County in recent days continue to have officials puzzled as to their cause. "We originally thought a pipeline had exploded," said Matt Skinner, Oklahoma Corporation Commission public information manager. "We had the pressure to zero pressure, and the leaks seemed to get bigger. So that's not it." Skinner had said at a press conference Monday geologists and hydrologists are beginning to study underground maps of the area to find an explanation. "We've ruled out the probables, and now we're into the unprobables," he said. "We've never seen one like...

IT was intelligence received by NSW Police six weeks ago that set in motion Australia's biggest terror raids.The state's counter-terrorism command received intelligence that a group of Muslim men they had been monitoring in Sydney's southwest had made a disturbing advance. Specifically, they were trying to obtain chemicals that could be used to make explosives. For two years, police from the NSW counter-terrorism command had been conducting a surveillance and intelligence investigation into the group. It began amid international concern over Islamic groups under the influence of fundamentalist sheikhs. Police were concerned the Sydney group's radical Islamic beliefs could lead...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA (search) estimated Monday it will cost $104 billion to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 in a new rocket that combines the space shuttle with the capsule of an earlier NASA era. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin (search), in unveiling the new lunar exploration plan announced by President Bush (search) last year, said he is not seeking extra money and stressed that the space agency will live within its future budgets to achieve this goal. He dismissed suggestions that reconstruction of the Gulf Coast (search) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina might derail the surface....