Carlie Brucia is dead because the criminal justice system would not protect her. Her alleged killer, who apparently told police where her body was, is 37-year oldJoseph Smith (search), a drug addict, who has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993. In ’97, Smith was tried in …
Read More »General Consensus?
And now the most engaging two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: General Consensus? Democratic Presidential CandidateWesley Clark (search)said today it should be up to Congress to determine if what he called President Bush’s march to war in Iraq amounted to a criminal offense. Clark has repeatedly …
Read More »Janet and Justin: Together Again
Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake | Woody Allen | DMX | Ex-Playmate’s Ex Janet and Justin Duet in the Works It looks like Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake may have to face the music once more. That’s because they’ve recorded some kind of duet for Quincy Jones‘ next album, according to …
Read More »Reporter's Notebook: Eyes on the Border
SAN DIEGO – It felt like we were back in the Middle East, but this was much closer. Our crew, three of us, arrived at the border southeast ofSan Diegolate in the morning. The location, an abandoned Korean-War-era Air Force landing strip, had seen better days. This is the home …
Read More »What's Drugs (Got to Do With It)?
Murder Inc. | World AIDS Day It’s ‘Murder’ at Universal’s Hit Factory The noose is getting a little tighter over at Murder Inc., the rap record label that launched the platinum careers of R&B singer Ashanti and rapper Ja Rule. The label’s accountant, recently indicted by the Brooklyn D.A., has …
Read More »Mottola Leaves Sony Music
Tommy Mottola|Pirates of the Caribbean |Super Bowl Show|Whitney Houston Mottola Leaves Sony Music The 14-year reign of Tommy Mottola at Sony Music is over. According to sources at Sony Music, where the phones have not stopped ringing, Mottola only found out he was leaving when he arrivedThursday morning at 550 …
Read More »The Fallout After the Recall Election
Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. The fallout after the recall election, and that is the subject of this evening’sTalking Points Memo. The big loser here is the Democratic party, which had control of the nation’s most powerful state and completely botched it. Almost every high-profile …
Read More »Winning the Hearts and Minds
The Bush administration is having trouble telling the other side of the story inIraq (search). While the major media focus on the problems that include the occasional shooting of coalition forces, many good developments are ignored. The result is a skewed impression and a distorted picture. Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld …
Read More »A tale of two politicians who hate the press: Obama attacks, Hillary hides
Most politicians occasionally get upset at the media. But few demonstrate as much contempt for journalists as do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Sometimes it appears they’d prefer a state-run media rather than a free press. For example, last week at a Georgetown University conference on poverty, President Obama indulged …
Read More »Analysts Urge Mending of U.S.-Russian Relations
WASHINGTON – As both a “deeply devout American patriot,” and a “best friend of the Russians,”Rep. Curt Weldon (search)has no problem blaming both sides for the current diplomatic freeze between the two nations during and since the war in Iraq. But the Pennsylvania Republican, who for the last 20 years …
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