My colleague Eamon Javers obtained a copy of the Obama campaign talking points on Geithner, which reveal that this came up in vetting, that Geithner paid the back taxes in November, and -- in the very detail of the memo, as Javers points out -- that the transition was ready for this one. …
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A confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner was delayed by reports of tax issues.…
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Obama, student lefty
A writer for the conservative magazine Human Events, Evan Gahr, last week unearthed another scrap of Barack Obama's slim paper trail: A March, 1983 reported article for a Columbia University magazine, Sundial. Gahr sent on a copy of the article, which I've posted in full here. …
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The Star Wars Force Trainer wants you to use The Force
The Star Wars Force Trainer wants you to use The Force Apparently, The Force is in all of us. However, as all die hard Star Wars fans should know (and those who have spent many hours brow furrowing and concentrating hard on an object willing it to move), some individuals prove more adept at wielding their powers than others. …
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‘Gomorrah’ Rubbed Out, ‘Right One’ Wrong One
Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone’s epic and atmospheric Italian mafia tale, was mysteriously and unjustly snubbed by the Academy Awards. Not by the final nominations, but by the shortlist of potential nominees. Lame! The Academy announced the nine “finalists” for the five nominations, and it’s a weak list. …
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PixelJunk Eden: Tending to Our Lovely Gardens
Two blog entries in almost as many weeks! Hopefully you aren’t too bored of me yet! This is just a short one though, to inform you that at last the patch for PixelJunk Eden will be released on Thursday, January 15. For those of you from the EU, it will be out shortly thereafter, so stay tuned. …
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NSA-approved smartphones leaves Obama with some ugly choices
Next week's US presidential inauguration of Barack Obama will have one sour note for the Illinois senator. Sure, he's gonna be the leader of the free world, but the notorious BlackBerry addict will have to give up his smartphone -- and frankly, if given…
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Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know
When Palm launched its Pre last week at CES, we were both blown away and pretty overwhelmed. Besides issuing new hardware, the company also demoed a completely original operating system called webOS which incorporates some pretty heady ideas about what…
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Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck Reveal Baby's Name
The couple's week-old daughter is Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck…
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President Bush Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
President Bush on Tuesday said, "Each of these gentlemen we honor today has his own style and personality, and each has amassed distinctions and achievements that belong to him alone. Yet all of them have shown a firm adherence to the principles of…
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REGIS' SECOND COMING
'WHO Wants to Be a Millionaire" could be returning to primetime after a five-year absence. Series executive producer Michael Davies told tvweek.com that he wants to bring the trailblazing game show back, possibly this August to coincide with its...…
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Clinton Challenged on Foreign Contributions to Foundation
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the nominee of President-elect Barack Obama to become the new secretary of state, testified for more than five hours today at a confirmation hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and ran into a challenge over foreign…
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Environmentalist Creates Uproar at Oil-Lease Auction by Running Up Prices
LOS ANGELES -- Instead of joining his protester friends on the snowy sidewalk outside the Bureau of Land Management office in Salt Lake City, Tim DeChristopher took a seat inside. In a room milling with oil and gas men who knew one another by sight, he…
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Citigroup Ready to Shrink Itself by a Third
Citigroup is set to announce a plan to shed businesses and shrink itself by one-third, essentially dismantling the financial colossus built by legendary dealmaker Sanford Weill.…
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New Kids Announce Plans to Perform -- on a Cruise!
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