| WA attorney general McKenna launches re-election bid
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna launched his 2008 re-election campaign on Wednesday, touting his first-term work fighting identity theft and methamphetamine abuse. McKenna, a former King County councilman, was first elected attorney general in 2004. He is one of three Republicans to hold statewide elected office, along with Secretary of State Sam Reed and Public Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland. In an interview, McKenna said his travels around the state working on consumer protection, crime and open government issues have helped him connect with Washingtonians. "I just need to do my job every day, and that's the most important thing I can do to persuade the voters to give me another four years," he said. McKenna filed paperwork to seek a second term shortly after winning the attorney general's seat in 2004.
Rudy crosses the Russert crucible
Screwed up that line." The audience of students of Southern New Hampshire University laughed. The old guy was trying to please. They appreciated it. Over the next hour, he spoke on a number of issues, passionately making the case for the current military policy in Iraq, speaking about the dangers of global warming and pledging to fix Medicare and Social Security for the younger generation. He said he supported federal stem cell research, despite his pro-life beliefs, wanted to increase government aide for college, and said he would have made the genocide in Darfur "a higher priority" than President Bush. At another point, when asked how he would have governed differently than President Bush, McCain said that he would have called the nation to public service after the attacks of Sept.
ZIMBABWE: New crackdown on Zimbabwe opposition
The detention of the opposition members came as President Robert Mugabe was reportedly scheduled to attend a South African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Tanzania on Thursday and Friday, called to discuss the situation Zimbabwe. The meeting will be attended by the SADC's security 'troika', Angola, Tanzania and Namibia, as well as current SADC chair Lesotho, outgoing chair Botswana, and incoming chair Zambia.
Otto Saki, an attorney with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, an NGO that defends victims of rights abuses, confirmed that Tsvangirai and other opposition members had been "arrested". "But we still don't know on what grounds, and we have not been allowed to access them."
A statement from Crisis in Zimbabwe, a coalition of more than 300 civil society organisations, said Tsvangirai had been arrested when he was about to announce Makoni's abduction by unknown assailants, who were suspected of being military intelligence officers.
Dist. 2 panel to lead inquiry
Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist. Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some Aspirin to school. 1967 - Mark shares Aspirin with the school principal out on the smoking dock. 2007 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug violations. His car is searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover Independence Day firecrackers, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up an anthill. 1967 - Ants die. 2007 - Homeland Security and the FBI are called and Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scotching the myth
Our research scotches five key myths, concluding that Scotland does well in some ways, but does not get special treatment within the UK. Scotland, with pockets of deprivation, one-third of the UK's land-mass and far-flung communities, does indeed receive substantial state spending, but its average of £9631 public money per head is still less than London's at £9748 or Northern Ireland's £10,271. Latest estimates show the tax take from Scotland - buoyed by the financial success of companies such as Royal Bank of Scotland - is higher than anywhere outside London. Arguments rage over North Sea oil and gas, but there is no doubt revenue from the natural resources found in waters off Scotland is being used fill the coffers of the UK exchequer. While cities such as Glasgow have high levels of incapacity benefit, the overall welfare bill at £3086 per head is actually lower in Scotland than in swaths of northern England.
One Woman's World
The recent flap over the raunchy remarks of radio talk-show host, Don Imus, is, once again, much ado about very little. And the infallible truth of that remark is based on Simple Psychology 101: Words cannot wound us unless we let them. There is rarely a day that passes in my free-woman life that somewhere, some man makes some derogatory remark like "them f--king women libbers." His actions can hurt me. His words never will. I get the word-opinions in e-mails: "You make me sick." "Women like you are what's wrong with the world." "If you women would stay home where you belong there wouldn't be so many unemployed men." I line my birdcage with the mail or work it into the fertilizer for my rose bushes - and then I stand up and loudly defend any man or woman's right to say what they please about you, about me, and about how impossible it is these days to find a poor politican.
Huckabee wastes no time politicizing terror plot
Instead, it became the Bush administration's m.o. to twist these sensible ideas into "attacking them over there" before "we have to fight them here." Today, Bush jumps over the steps of logic (again) to claim that the arrests in Britain justify the war in Iraq. The American people are slowly beginning to comprehend that "If A, then B then K" logic is nuts. .
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