Former US Presidents

Transform debates Nixon Drug Tsar on BBC World Service

Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

I had a great opportunity today to discuss global drug policy on the BBC World Service (broadcast internationally) with Dr Robert Dupont , the first director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the second US Drug Tsar from 1973 to 1977 under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. It was a refreshing change to have a decent amount of time to talk through some of the issues...

Stanford Study purports to demonstrate that racism...

Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Stanford Study purports to demonstrate that racism is a reason why Obama policies are failing The journal article is: "Racial Prejudice Predicts Opposition to Obama and His Health Care Reform Plan" by Eric D. Knowles, Brian S. Lowery, and Rebecca L. Schaumberg, in: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2009. This is another "negative associations" test. Such tests...

• Stanford Study purports to demonstrate that racism is a reason why Obama policies are failing - Stop the ACLU

Bush not traveling to Tampa

CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A person familiar with the decision says running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay. Both players are expected to be back at practice next week, said the person, who requested anonymity because the team's injury report had not been officially updated. Bush and Ellis have knee injuries. Bush missed practice...

Bill Clinton Blames Keith Olbermann for Having to Skip Charity Event

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

A major charitable event is happening in Little Rock, Arkansas, Saturday, and former Bill Clinton apparently will not be in attendance because MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has politicized it on his "Countdown" program. As Arkansas News reported hours ago, "Nine hundred people or more will get free medical attention from noon to 7 p.m. at the Statehouse Convention Center." Unfortunately,...

• President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic, Blames Olbermann for Politicizing Event - Firedoglake

AP Source: Bush, Ellis, not making trip to Tampa

Sify (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A person familiar with the decision says running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.

AP Source: Bush, Ellis, not making trip to Tampa

Examiner (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A person familiar with the decision says running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.

Bush, Ellis, not making trip to Tampa

Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay....

What really killed Detroit?

Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Op-Ed Columnist - An American Catastrophe - NYTimes.com I've been reading a lot lately about how big industry made conscious choices in the late 70s and early 80s to move jobs to Mexico, China, and so on not just as a way to save money but as a way to break the unions. The auto industry decided they would rather destroy the middle class than abide by the rules they agreed upon with the unions. And...

Ex-Bush aide: No crying in politics, even if men slap women in the face

Raw Story (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

In a recent editorial defending former lawmaker Sarah Palin, ex-Bush aide and longtime Republican strategist Mary Matalin suggested that in campaign politics, women cannot get offended, even if they are physically assaulted by a male colleague. "Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how to choose [...]

Report: Injured New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis, stay behind

ESPN (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

A person familiar with the decision says running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.

Bush, Ellis stay home as 9-0 Saints travel to Tampa

CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

A person familiar with the decision said running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis did not travel with the New Orleans Saints on Saturday for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.

Kerosene Blanche

BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

We'll have a day of annoying speeches in the Senate and then sometime around 8pm we'll have a vote on cloture/motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill. The only remaining questions are whether Max Baucus can make it back from Montana for the vote (his mother is ill) and whether Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will join the other 59 members of the Democratic caucus and vote to proceed. Joe...

Saints come marching in without RB Bush, DT Ellis

TBO > Sports (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers enter Sunday's game against New Orleans with a healthy roster, the Saints will be well below full strength.

• Saints come marching in without RB Bush, DT Ellis - Tampa Bay Online

Bush, Ellis, not making trip to Tampa

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.

Clinton won’t help Olbermann muck about in AR primaries.

Red State (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

(Via Hot Air Headlines ) I don’t know if Mediaite deliberately omitted the reason for former President Bill Clinton’s refusal to attend a Keith Olbermann-boosted ‘free clinic event.’ It’s entirely possible that the actual reason (warning: FDL link) - that Clinton thinks that the event in question is a thinly-veiled primary campaign event against Senator Blanche Lincoln...