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It won't win you a gold medal, but ...

Jenny Jones, of the United Kingdom, smiles after winning the the Women's Snowboard Slopestyle at the Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk Ski Area, near Aspen Photograph: Nathan Bilow/AP There was a time when the terms "British", "snowboarder" and "best in ...

From JENNY JONES, SUSAN GREENWOOD, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Feb 2009

Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine

(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of the ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Bush 'Squandered' Opportunity to Shore Up Social Security, Pelosi Says

(CNSNews.com) - President Bush has been pressing for Social Security reform since his first presidential campaign in 2000, but congressional Democrats have rebuffed him again and again. During George W. Bush's State of Union Address in 2006, Democrats ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  25 Mar 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  John Boehner,  Nancy Pelosi

State Dept. Contractors Snooped on Obama's Passport Records

(CNSNews.com) - On three separate occasions -- Jan. 9, Feb. 21, and March 14 -- three different contractor employees working in three separate locations looked at the passport records of Senator Barack Obama -- "without a need to do so," the State ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  21 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Second Amendment Supporters Optimistic After Oral Arguments

(CNSNews.com) - If gun ownership is limited to "state militias," why does the Constitution say "the right of the people," Chief Justice John Roberts asked on Tuesday. Second Amendment supporters were heartened by Tuesday's oral arguments in District ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  19 Mar 2008
Related Topics: John Roberts,  Anthony Kennedy

Pelosi Wants 'Rwanda-Like Genocide' in Iraq, Expert Says

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Bush's Iraq policy has failed. She was responding to comments made last week by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who said that no one in the U.S. and Iraqi ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  18 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  George W. Bush,  David Petraeus

Obama, Seizing on Divisive Comments, Aims for Unity

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Tuesday criticized his long-time pastor for expressing views that "rightly offend white and black alike." The Democratic presidential hopeful spoke in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, beginning ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  17 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Congress Says Yes to Tax Hikes

(CNSNews.com) - Both the House and Senate have now passed budget plans that envision tax hikes for most Americans. On Thursday, most House Democrats -- all but 16 -- voted for a 2009 budget plan that includes the single largest tax increase in the ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  14 Mar 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

Spitzer: Sorry, Thanks, and Goodbye

(CNSNews.com) - His wife at his side, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, announced that he is resigning his office, effective on Monday. Spitzer said Lt. Gov. David Patterson requested that Spitzer wait until Monday, to ease the ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  11 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Eliot Spitzer,  U.S. Democratic Party

New Contest Seeks to Buy Out the Nation's 'Ten Worst Teachers'

(CNSNews.com) - An anti-union group is inviting the public to name the nation's worst "union-protected" teachers. It's part of a campaign to show the adverse impact that the powerful teachers' unions -- especially the National Education Association ...

From SUSAN JONES, Crosswalk,  11 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Rick Berman

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