Blue Herald

Hear this all you Red Sox fans……..
One of the surprise witnesses in the case will be Philip Morse - one of the minority owners of the US baseball team the Boston Red Sox, says the BBC’s Christian Fraser in Rome.
From the BBC
The first criminal trial over the CIA’s extraordinary rendition of terror suspects is due [...]

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Ex-White House aide’s lies violated the law, impeded federal inquiry
from the USA Today Editorial Board
A federal jury had barely finished pronouncing former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice in March when Republican loyalists began calling for President Bush to pardon him.
Now, with Libby’s stiff sentence this week, the [...]

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Reverend Gary Davis - “Oh Glory, How Happy I Am”
You can see his pre- and post-chats with Pete Seeger in this longer version. His Wiki entry provides a few nice links. It never ceases to amaze me how some musicians, such as the blind Davis, thought that certain forms of music [...]

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By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are essentially tied for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the first time that the New York senator hasn’t clearly led the field.

The Illinois senator bests Clinton by a single percentage point, 30%-29%, if the contest includes former vice [...]

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What is it with the Republicans from Alaska?
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest’serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his closest political confidants and financial [...]

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By JEFF ZELENY
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 7 - The House gave final Congressional approval on Thursday to legislation aimed at easing restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research, but Democratic leaders in both chambers conceded they were short of the votes needed to override a veto threatened by President Bush.
On a vote [...]

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Joe Lieberman on CNN this morning telling us we’re making great progress in Iraq. He could actually walk around Baghdad this time…… outside the Green Zone. Ahhhhhh……ok. Again, thank you Connecticut.

You call this a casual stroll around Baghdad?

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FDA Seeks Strictest Warning for Diabetes Drugs
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has asked that two controversial type 2 diabetes drugs carry a “black box” warning on the potentially heightened risk of congestive heart failure in some patients.
In prepared testimony before a Congressional committee that was convened Wednesday following a published report on the cardiac dangers [...]

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The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, an official inquiry will conclude tomorrow.
Despite denials by their governments, senior security officials in Poland and Romania have confirmed to investigators for the Council of Europe that their countries were used to hold some of America’s most important [...]

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You’d think the Republicans would be ashamed of themselves…..or at the very least, embarrassed…..but nooooooo. They’ll just do it again. And again.
Port Of Spain - The four suspects in an alleged terror plot to bomb a New York airport were set up in an elaborate plan by the US Republican party to [...]

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