Senator Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.) described incoming Sen. Al Franken as "that clown from Minnesota" in an interview, later backing off the remark. "I didn't mean to be disrespectful. I don't know the guy, but -- for a living he is a clown," the senator said. "That's what he does for a living."
read moreSome states faced with sinking tax collections and rising debt are going after unused gift cards that bolster their revenue.
South Carolina is considering legislation that would give the state the right to collect unclaimed gift-card credit. A similar measure in Texas to allow the collection of unused credit even from cards that have no expiration date passed that state's House this spring and stalled in the Senate. Texas already collects unused gift cards with expiration dates.
The July issue of Rolling Stone has an article about a different type of rock star: the Goldman Sachs investment banker. The article, called "The Great American Bubble Machine," was written by Matt Taibbi. In it, he viciously attacks Goldman Sachs through a series of arguments, blaming the bank for engineering virtually every bubble, and pseudo-bubble, that has plagued the economy over the past hundred or so years.
Chvez has been undermining the democratic character of Venezuela for eleven years.
The news that Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Argentina; as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The U.S. State Department called the events an "attempted coup," and demanded that Mr. Zelaya be returned to power in order to facilitate the "restoration of democratic order."
Andrew Young, a former aide to presidential candidate John Edwards, wrote in a new book proposal that Edwards and his former mistress Rielle Hunter once made a sex tape, a source who has seen the proposal told the New York Daily News. Young also denies being the father of Hunter's infant daughter and states that Edwards is.
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Way to go Barry.