| Struggle for the African-American vote
He can recall his grandfather taking him down to a polling station as a young child on the day in 1960 when the old man voted for the smiling young Democratic contender, John F Kennedy. A white mob was lying in wait outside: the racist supremacists of the Old South were losing their battle to prevent black people from registering to vote, by using a mixture of intimidation and bureaucratic obstructionism. Trying to frighten an elderly man and his young grandchildren was a desperate last resort. Struggle for rights Elijah told me what happened: "I remember having to hide under the floorboards of my grand-daddy's car with blankets over us, because we were afraid that people was coming around and shaking the car, trying to break into the car and saying racial slurs at you." .
NHL to begin 2008-09 season in Europe: report
All four teams are expected to play pre-season games in Europe as well. The Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings faced off in the first two games of the 2007-08 campaign in London, England, in September, marking the first time NHL regular-season games were played in Europe. .
Keep troops in Kandahar until 2011, Manley to recommend
As any successful ventriloquist's dummy could tell you, the act requires you to suspend your disbelief that the cute toy with the mechanical mouth and wood noggin and a man's hand up its back is actually a sentient, independant and free-thinking little scamp, who in encouragement of this hillarious illusion, will saucily mock his master, who in turn, will chastise the imp for his impertinance. Someone should tell our Prime Minister that this schtick went out with Vaudeville in '30s, and having Manley perched on his knee in his cute 'Liberal' shorts to spout earnest nonsense is no more amusing than yet another soldier's funeral.
But even the PM should know from watching his Ed Sullivan reruns, merely talking from both sides of one's mouth is not ventriloquism, and the act really bombs if the puppet and the puppeteer drivel on at the same time and say the same things.
Overview: Equities rebound but money market strains persist
New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8 per cent, the S&P 500 was 0.9 per cent higher and the Nasdaq Composite was up 1.2 per cent. European stocks also powered ahead as the energy sector was boosted by a rise in oil prices. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 index rose 1.2 per cent but failed to pull back above the 1,483 level at which it started the year. Asian markets recovered from an early sell-off to end broadly higher. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average rose 1.1 per cent, Hong Kong gained the same amount – snapping a three-day losing run – and Singapore gained 0.8 per cent. On the money markets, interbank lending rates continued to rise, with the three-month sterling Libor rate hitting a two-month high – its eighth successive increase. The two-month euro Libor rate hit its highest since May 2001, reflecting the strong demand for cash over the new year period.
Inside a GOP Effort To Rig The 2002 New Hampshire Elections
Raymond said it was Tobin who first phoned him 2 1/2 weeks before the election and asked if he could jam Democrats' phone lines, connecting him with Charles McGee, the executive director of the New Hampshire GOP. However, he said, when he phoned Tobin after Sununu's 19,000-vote election victory to tell him that a Manchester, N.H., police officer was looking into the scheme, Tobin responded, "I don't know what you're talking about." Raymond said he was seething with anger in the ensuing weeks as he read news reports of McGee denying knowledge of the scheme. In early 2003, Raymond recalled, the state GOP wrote to demand its money back. "They were going to throw me under the bus," Raymond wrote, "but first they wanted to check my pockets to see if there was any cash there." Raymond and McGee pleaded guilty to harassment charges.
The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed
Call it the credit risk hangover following the housing boom binge: Homebuyers and refinancers who can't come up with sizable down payments, and whose FICO credit scores are below 680, are about to get squeezed in the mortgage market. Giant investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are imposing significant increases in fees for a broad range of borrowers who have lower than 30 percent down payments and formerly were treated as "prime" credit applicants. .
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Which of the Republican candidates for the presidency is most likely to get "Soutered?" To nominate for the Supreme Court, not an originalist, but in fact the opposite. Those vulnerable to being Soutered lack an ear for or an interest in the inner ideology that all lower court judges keep carefully tucked away until they arrive on the Supreme Court of the United States where it is allowed to take full flight. It is hard work to get SCOTUS nominees right. Even when a president cares about the Court and the Constitution's interpretation by the nine deeply, he can still be flummoxed by the process. If he isn't passionate about it going in, it won't spring up in the course of his busy life in the Oval Office. The first President Bush narrowed a field of Supreme Court candidates to Judge Edith Jones and then New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
So Much for “Inevitability”
Barack Obama dealt Hillary Clinton a devastating blow in Iowa.It wasn't just his decisive win in the caucuses. Watching the speeches after the vote told you all you needed to know about the candidates. Obama, surrounded by young supporters, gave the speech of his career–embodying optimism and inspiring his supporters with a sense of nobility and mission. What a different face the United States would project to the world under President Obama. Young people, including young women, are inspired by what his leadership says about our culture–that we are a multi-ethnic nation that can unite around the idea of democracy, equal opportunity, and justice. Although having a first woman President would be historic, too, you don't get that feeling from Clinton. Hillary, grappling with her third-place finish, stood surrounded by ghosts of Clinton Administrations past–a sad and puffy-looking Bill over one shoulder, an elderly Madeleine Albright (she of the infamous assessment that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children due to U.S.
Plea bargain gets man 2 1/2 years in prison; down from a possible 40
FARMINGTON — A man initially facing more than 40 years of prison time on domestic violence charges was sentenced in district court this week to serve less than three years. Jose Silva, 34, initially had been charged with first-degree kidnapping, second-degree aggravated burglary, second-degree retaliation against a witness, fourth-degree aggravated stalking, and several misdemeanors including violating a restraining order, battery on a household member and possession of marijuana. The charges were filed in December 2006 when the victim reported Silva hit her in the face and threatened to attack their infant child if the victim did not drive him where he wanted to go. Those charges in October were reduced to just fourth-degree aggravated stalking and misdemeanor criminal damage to property.
Homeowners deluge mortgage brokers
For people like Shari De Cambra of Chino Hills, the rate cut provided the opportunity she was looking for to trade the uncertainty of her adjustable rate loan for the security of a mortgage with a fixed rate of 5.25% for 30 years. I dont want to ever do it again, said De Cambra, who teaches math at Diamond Bar High School, said of her third refinance. Every time it costs you money. .
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