Tailrank: Top News for Today
Tailrank: Top News for Today
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Chrome - Getting Microsoft's Goat
Historically there has been nothing which gets Microsoft's attention as fast as a platform for applications which threatens Windows dominance. Google's Chrome is obviously such a platform; Google can afford to challenge Microsoft; it's healthy for innovation that it does. ...
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Ra Ra Riot Bring "Ghost Under Rocks" To Conan
The Too Too Too Fast live vid was cute, but I'm glad to see "Ghost Under Rocks" get the big push for Ra Ra Riot. Two weeks ago the band set up with maps and rhumb lines for the official vid , and last night they brought it to 30 Rock for their network TV debut. ...
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What Palin Will Do Tonight
I've been talking to a member of the McCain/Palin team this morning about what to expect from Palin's speech to the convention tonight. These speeches often feature a lot of biographical material, introducing an unknown candidate to the world. ...
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Fleet Foxes And The Dodos Play A Shadowy La Blogothèque Soirée
La La Blogothèque threw a party at the end of May and invited Fleet Foxes, the Dodos, Vandaveer, Essie Jaine, and Noah And The Whale to play. As that FF still suggests, it was a dark night, offering sharp contrast to the Foxes light-as-air melodies and the Dodos buoyant harmonies and "The Fools"'s s ...
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OK Fine, 90210. You Win. Today.
Never again and all, but we'll momentarily pause to acknowledge Tilly & The Wall performed " Beat Control " and " Pot Kettle Black " at the West Beverly High queen bitch's Not So Sweet 16 (ugh) Party. ...
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Palin offers details about Troopergate
John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has asked the state's personnel board to review allegations that she improperly ordered the firing of the former public safety commissioner.
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Google pulls a Microsoft on user privacy
For those who didn't catch Ina Fried's perceptive review of Google Chrome's terms of service Tuesday, ReadWriteWeb piles on Wednesday. In the terms of service, Google claims "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, ...
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Obama Met With Fox News Executives
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- At a secret meeting with Barack Obama three months ago, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes says, he tried to clear the air with the Democratic senator by saying that his organization was determined to be fair but would not be
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Obama yes to Murdoch's Fox news grilling
Rupert Murdoch's courtship of Barack Obama appears to have paid with the Democratic presidential nominee agreeing to appear on Murdoch's Fox news channel programme, The O'Reilly Factor, during rival J ...
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Democrats, teachers unions now divided on many issues
The ink is barely dry on the official document, which outlines the party's guiding principles, but it shows that in this fall's general election, Democrats will stake out a few positions that unions have long opposed. Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers' new president, says she's w ...
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Bush Praises McCain's 'Faith in Our Troops'
"John McCain's independence and character helped change history," President Bush told delegates to the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.
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More Clintonites Backing Obama
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Palin and the Narcissistic Left
The Left always counts its presidential chickens before they're hatched. They did it with Algore, they did it with Kerry. They think they have victory in their grasp, and when reality says otherwise they feel robbed and betrayed. ...
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Cheney in ex-Soviet energy call
US Vice-President Dick Cheney presses for more energy export routes from ex-Soviet allies, as he tours the region.
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Two covers, one conclusion
Reader James D. [...] Read the rest »
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EXCLUSIVE: Mexican drug wars threaten U.S.
An escalating turf fight between warring drug cartels in Mexico is spreading into the United States with federal officials warning that deadly shootouts and ambushes along the southwestern border pose a serious threat to both U. ...
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Report: Gonzales mishandled classified data
The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Tuesday that former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales had only been on the job a few hours the first time he mishandled highly classified documents.
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Johnny's Got A New Girl
The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Ancient Jerusalem Walls Uncovered
Archeologists have unearthed a section of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. They've also unearthed another wall built above it 400 years later.
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About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. According the Coast To Coast AM, Palin fired her own chef, while stating, "we don't need a chef.
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