Archive for December, 2008

Ghana presidential race heads to runoff vote

Ghana’s presidential contest heads to a runoff vote Sunday, a race that has become a referendum on whether the West African country’s stunning growth of the past eight years has trickled down to ordinary people.

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Web sites could get cinema-style ratings: U.K. minister

The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to Web sites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain’s minister for culture has said.

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GOP mum on 'Magic Negro' parody

A candidate for the Republican National Committee chair sent out a holiday CD to committee members that includes the song “Barack the Magic Negro,” a parody first aired on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.

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Corruption crisis creates confusion in Illinois

Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has made a point of regularly going to work at his office in Chicago.

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Spiritual issues drive voters

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., joins Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church for a discussion of moral issues on Aug.

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Rick Warren’s biggest critics: other evangelicals

Rick Warren is in a place he never expected to be: at the center of a culture war.

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Battle brewing over Nebraska’s electoral vote distribution

Even before Nebraska’s electoral votes were split for the first time this year, Republican leaders were talking about changing the system.

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Outlook cloudy for SKorea-US free trade agreement

Call it the free trade follies.

South Korean opposition politicians last week used a sledgehammer to try and force their way into a barricaded committee room to stop the ruling party from introducing debate on a tariff-slashi..Full story

RNC Chair Candidate Defends "Barack the Magic Negro" CD

Tennessee Republican John “Chip” Saltsman, former manager for Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign and a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC), sent a CD of holiday music t..Full story

Kennedy tells AP she’ll have to work twice as hard

Caroline Kennedy told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she knows she will have to work twice as hard as others if she is picked for the U.S. Senate.

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