Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Flying High The Government Accountability Office says federal employees wasted at least $146 million in just one year, by upgrading airline tickets to first or business class in violation of travel guidelines. The GAO report covered more than a dozen agencies from …
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Do you know who Spencer Tunick is? He’s the dope who makes a living herding naked bodies onto landmarks and then taking their picture. He’s done this all over the world and Mexico. Last Monday, he had 500 models strip naked in front of a Florida hotel, exploding bottles of …
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A Mars-orbiting satellite recently spotted seven dark spots near the planet’s equator that scientists think could be entrances to underground caves. The football-field sized holes were observed by Mars Odyssey’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) and have been dubbed the “seven sisters” — Dena, Chloe, Wendy, Annie, Abbey, Nikki and …
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Anna Nicole Smith | Bobby Kennedy Jr. | ‘The Insider’ | Chelsea Clinton Anna Nicole Smith’s Life of Lawyers, Drugs and Money The theme song of the Anna Nicole Smith saga should be a tweak on Warren Zevon‘s “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” Substitute drugs for guns. On Friday, you read …
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. How many times have you heard that? How many times have we as Americans forgotten that? For example, take this notion that you can borrow on the cheap to buy something expensive. That you can mortgage yourself to the …
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Taxes are going up. Not because virtually every major Democratic presidential candidate wants them to go up, but because every major Republican opposition figure is heading out. Today Trent Lott announcing he will step down. Only months after New Mexico’s Pete Domenici said he would leave. Different men, different states, …
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Michael Yon is an independent journalist and former Green Beret who was embedded in Iraq for nine months in 2005. He has returned to Iraq for 2007 to continue reporting on the war. Here is a portion of his latest dispatch exclusively for FOXNews.com. HIT, Iraq — Many people in …
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The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday about the dangers of buying prescription drugs online after 24 related Web sites were found to be possibly distributing counterfeit medications. In the past few months, the FDA found two sites carrying counterfeit Xenical 120 mg capsules. The weight-loss drug’s active ingredient, …
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A second user has claimed to have found a method for cracking and decoding the AACS encoding protecting HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs. Meanwhile, SlySoft has already begun offering beta software to “remaster” and copy HD DVDs. “Arnezami,” a poster on the Doom9 forums, has claimed he has found a …
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Soon General David Petraeus will present a report on the troop surge in Iraq, and — holy crap — it might be positive. This is good news right? I mean, if the war is going well, that’s great. On top of that, consumer confidence is the highest it’s been since …
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