Poll: 57% Think Stimulus Is A Failure
WASHINGTON – Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation’s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found 57% of adults say the stimulus package is having no [...]
Major Upset: Woods Denied In Final Round
CHASKA, Minn. – The night before he went toe-to-toe with Tiger Woods in the final group in the final round of the 91st PGA Championship, unheralded Y.E. Yang ventured that his odds of winning were 70-1, seeing as Woods had 70 PGA Tour victories and he had one. Most others had the odds much longer. [...]
Our Q&A With Senate Candidate Art Graham
OBSERVER: Tell us a little about your background. Why did you first get into politics? GRAHAM: My background is I was born on a military base overseas and grew up in a military family, where values like discipline, personal responsibility, and trust are hardwired. After graduating from Georgia Tech, I worked for major American companies [...]
Review: ‘Hearts of Iron III’ (PC)
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill Historical strategy games pull on two contradictory impulses. First, they depend on the desire of the audience to relive the past, to put itself in the shoes of Napoleon or Jefferson Davis or Adolf Hitler. Second, they embrace the Time [...]
Toys That Should Never Be Made Into Video Games
In the old days, big blockbuster movies would be turned into cheap collectible glasses that would come with your meal at McDonald’s. These glasses were fun to drink milk out of through Krazy Straws, but they eventually wound up being shattered in the dishwasher. Then, as mankind evolved and we put a man on the [...]
Old Friend Helps Vick Make New Start
PHILADELPHIA – Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb trotted the entire width of the field, tossing the football back and forth as a warm-up exercise before Saturday’s practice at the Philadelphia Eagles headquarters. It was a fitting precursor. Within the first half-hour of Vick’s first practice, McNabb, the established face of the franchise and all-pro quarterback, [...]
David Gray Out To Match 90′s Success
Fans of “Cold Case” can expect detective Lilly Rush to take a turn off the straight and narrow in the forthcoming seventh season of the CBS drama. That’s the word from series star Kathryn Morris, who tells us, “There’s a lot of questionable activity for Lilly this year. All the best heroes have that fork [...]
Groups: Don’t Tax Our Soft Drinks
Industry groups are fighting a soft-drink tax proposal that is not part of any pending health care measure. Still, they’re taking no chances. The American Beverage Association has begun a $2 million ad campaign to oppose a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks, depicting it as a tax on “simple pleasures.” Last month, the group joined forces [...]
Legislative Races Will Set Fundraising Records Next Year
Democratic and Republican operatives charged with raising money for state House and Senate campaigns said Thursday they expect to spend an average of at least $500,000 per House seat for the upcoming 2010 election cycle. Open Senate seat races will be even more expensive, with party fundraisers expecting the average price tag to ring up [...]
NASA Picks Crew for Final Space Shuttle Mission
A twin, three space station veterans, a Hubble repairman and a veteran shuttle pilot were named to a flight that might be the final mission of NASA’s three-orbiter fleet. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, whose twin brother, Scott, is also an astronaut, will command STS-134, a mission now set to launch on Sept. 16, 2010. The [...]
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