Interesting?
USATODAY-Despite nearly 30 years of media campaigns detailing the dangers of drunken driving, almost one in 11 people admit to driving when they thought they were legally intoxicated, according to a survey released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Of 2,509 adults surveyed, 9% said they had driven within the previous 30 days when […]

Is this not a problem?
USATODAY-In 2001, Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug overdose just hours after she had been told he was stable. But Pingatore was unable to get the hospital to produce a key medical record […]

What is McCain for?
HP-When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.
Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept […]

Has Bush lost the faith of the American people?
(UPI) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Tuesday said the economy is in its current state because U.S. President George Bush ignored repeated warnings.
In the Democratic response to Bush’s Rose Garden news conference, Schumer said Bush “has closed his eyes and put his hands over his ears […]

THIS IS FUNNY!
HP-On Monday, The Daily Show tackled Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent remarks — and the accompanying non-stop media coverage, which Jon Stewart dubbed the “Reverending Story.”
Stewart added: “Whatever you want to say about the substance of what the reverend is saying — interpret as you may — if I had had a rabbi […]

This sounds like free healthcare from McCain?
MSN-The Center for American progress held a conference call responding to McCain’s health-care roundtable this morning and the impending rollout of his health-care proposal tomorrow. On the call, Elizabeth Edwards responded to the public back-and-forth between her and McCain on whether McCain’s plan would cover people like them — […]

I agree!
HP-Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser to presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and a retired Air Force general, said on Monday that he agrees with the position, stated mainly by Sen. Barack Obama, that the U.S. would benefit from having direct talks with the leaders of its most distrusted adversaries.
“Absolutely,” said Scowcroft, […]

Pure genius. His plan is to improve job training and replace lost manufacturing jobs with new “green” jobs. But why wouldn’t companies that make “green” equipment, such as solar panels, have the manufacturing done in China? It’s cheaper.
McClatchy: Standing before a nearly shuttered factory pocked with broken windows, John McCain on Tuesday urged Americans to […]

What should be the sentence to parents who allowed this to happen?
FOX-SAN ANTONIO — Texas child welfare officials say more than half the teen girls swept into state custody from a polygamist sect’s ranch have been pregnant.
Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar says 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living […]

What do you think?
USATODAY-Rein them in before their risky business loses the pot for taxpayers.
In recent months, Americans have learned that their mortgage payments — kind of like their airline luggage — can go places they never would have imagined. A loan in, say, Sarasota, Fla., can be bundled with others and sold as a […]

Why would anyone object?
Stevens: Law justified to protect integrity, reliability of electoral process
MSN-The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups […]

Does this help or hurt Obama?

Will this hurt McCain?
AJC-There’s not a bit of bunting in sight. No rope line to hold back the rabid throngs.
Secret Service protection? More like one endlessly patient young woman who answers the phone and greets strangers walking through the door with cheery aplomb.
At first glance, this conservatively appointed office suite — muted carpeting, framed Ronald […]

P-
Alan Greenspan says that the US economy is thriving, yet he is using the measures of corporate profit, gross national product, and stock market conditions. In real terms, consumer debt is at an all-time high, earnings are lower than in 1973, and child poverty is at 25%. A priority of the progressive agenda should be […]

Will the dema blow it?
WP-Attacks could do lasting harm, party officials say
The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains her sharp line of attack […]