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Fred Morrison, Inventor Of The Frisbee Dies Age 90 (Wall Street Journal)
Fred Morrison put his World War II experience as a fighter pilot to peaceful use by inventing what became known as the Frisbee.
Mr. Morrison, who died Tuesday at age 90, called his earliest flying disks “Whirlo-Way” and “Pluto Platter,” to capitalize on the flying saucer craze of the 1950s.
But it wasn’t until he licensed the [...]
JOE CONASON/PROFILE: The Never Ending Quest Of Bill Clinton (Salon)
Often since his first heart surgery in 2004, Bill Clinton has alluded to an increased awareness of his own life’s limitations; it is a sense that must have enveloped him again on Thursday, when chest pains sent him into the operating room at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan for a new pair of stents in [...]
BILL CLINTON UPDATE: Former Pres. Hospitalized in New York, Receives Two Stents (Washington Post)
Former president Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in New York City, where doctors have inserted two stents into a coronary artery to help support it, his office said Thursday afternoon.
In a statement, Douglas Band, a longtime aide to the 63-year-old former president, said Clinton “was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital [...]
John Murtha Dead: Congressman Died At Age 77 (Huffington Post)
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew [...]
OPINION/SALON: Liberals And Sara Palin Agree, Obama Must ‘Fire White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel’ (Salon)
President Obama promised he’d find a way to unite often-warring political factions. Finally, some concrete proof arrived Tuesday that he’s managed to do just that: Sarah Palin has joined some prominent liberal bloggers in calling for Obama to fire his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Both Palin and the blogs were upset by comments reported in [...]
HISTORY: The Civil Rights Movemment – How It Started 50 Years Ago (USA Today)
NASHVILLE — Fifth Avenue downtown bustles with activity on a blustery recent afternoon. People of all races mingle: This could be any midsize city in the United States, circa 2010.
Fifty years ago, things were different. The stores along Fifth — specifically, their lunch counters — and the city itself were the site of a battle [...]
FACT CHECK: Obama And The ‘Hatchet’ Job (AP)
President Barack Obama, who once considered government spending freezes a hatchet job, told Americans on Wednesday it’s now part of his solution to the exploding deficit. He didn’t explain what had changed.
His State of the Union speech skipped over a variety of complex realities in laying out a “common-sense” call to action.
A look at some [...]
Obama Critics Say His Economic Vision Is Hazy (L.A. Times)
Reporting from Washington – With congressional support eroding, his popularity falling and his renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke potentially in trouble, President Obama faces an even more daunting task to save his entire domestic agenda — convincing millions of angry Americans that his economic policies will bring them a brighter future.
Even as [...]
White House Officials Contradict Themselves On Success of Stimulus (Politico)
White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act.
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus [...]
PROFILE IN COURAGE: The Real Frank Serpico Resurfaces (The New York Times)
He looked like some sort of fur trapper, this bearded man walking through the snowy woods here in upstate New York. But then, Frank Serpico has always been known for his disguises.
Anyone who has seen the celebrated 1973 film “Serpico” knows that he often dressed up — bum, butcher, rabbi — to catch criminals. His [...]
