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Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Milt Rosenberg radio program in Chicago last night provided an unsettling look into the authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics.

The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age.

On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall.

Approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) the daily Competition Schedules give a day-by-day account of sporting activities over the 17 days of Olympic competition and the 9 days of Paralympic competition. Download the entire Olympic Competition Schedule, or the entire Paralympic Competition Schedule, or view specific sport schedules below.

This past Saturday was Opening Day for the Girls Pony-Tail Softball League in Geneva. With near perfect weather, the girls started the Summer '08 season. This year there are 6 teams competing in the league.

THERE is a certain familiarity to the concomitant series of actions and reactions when disaster strikes in the world. The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with food and medical supplies, and transport planes, helicopters and floating hospitals to help those devastated by natural disaster.

This week General David Petraeus will report to Congress on the recent progress in Iraq. When General Petraeus testified six months ago, he was the victim of personal and vicious attacks by ultra-liberal groups. MoveOn.org took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling General Petraeus a traitor.

4/01/2008 12:01:00 AM Posted by Sir Richard Branson, President and Founder of Virgin GroupIn my life, I've had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.Virgle's goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world.In the years to come, we'll be sending up a series of spaceships carrying (along with the supplies and tools needed to build the new colony) what eventually will be hundreds of Mars colonists, or Virgle Pioneers -- myself among them. If you think you might want join us (or invest in or otherwise assist this vast venture), I hope you'll read more here about how Virgle will work, what our brave Pioneers can expect and what the future holds for what just might be the most ambitious adventure in mankind's long and storied history.See you on the north side of Kasei Valles!

The average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during climatological winter (December 2007-February 2008) was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. In terms of winter precipitation, Pacific storms, bringing heavy precipitation to large parts of the West, produced high snowpack that will provide welcome runoff this spring.

The classified ads popped up Saturday afternoon on the Web site saying the owner of a home in the 7900 block of Sterling Creek Road was forced to leave the area suddenly and that his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan.

DUPAGE COUNTY - Skeletal remains found this week in a DuPage County forest preserve were identified Saturday as those of a Downers Grove man. The DuPage County coroner's office identified the remains as Daniel Smiechowski, 28, who was reported missing to police last March, according to Downers Grove police. When the missing persons report was filed, there was nothing to lead investigators to believe his disappearance was suspicious, police said.

Halifax, Nova Scotia—Today in Halifax, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) announced that Coca-Cola Canada and RBC will join VANOC as the exclusive Presenting Partners of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. VANOC also unveiled the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay Emblem that will become iconic in the lead-up and operation of the cross-Canada event preceding the 2010 Winter Games.

Squire/GettyEli Manning celebrates NFC title with U.S. Army Lt. Col Greg Gadson, who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq but, as honorary co-captain, has become part of the Super Bowl-bound team.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan football head coach Lloyd Carr announced today (Monday, Nov. 19) his retirement from coaching after 28 seasons with the Wolverine program. Carr is second to only Bennie Oosterbaan (31 years; 20 years as an assistant and 11 years as head coach) in years of service with the nation's winningest college football program.

It may be necessary to perform an Archive and Install installation of Leopard. Archive and Install moves your existing Mac OS X system files to a folder named Previous System, and then installs a new copy of Mac OS X on the selected volume. Mac OS X–installed applications, such as Address Book and Safari, are archived, and new versions are installed in the Applications folder. Applications, plug-ins, and other software may have to be reinstalled after an "Archive and Install." This is covered on page 7 of the Install & Setup Guide included on the Leopard DVD.

"If you ask someone to think of something typically English or British, they think of the Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood," said Austin Brady, the regional director of the East Midlands Conservancy Forestry Commission. "They are part of our national identity ... but the Sherwood forest is a real place and the real forest needs help too."

"I heard from a number of people for a number of years that we had to come in here and bash the ball, that's the only way to win," Hurdle said. "I disagreed, and I was actually the hitting coach for a lot of that.

Who says you have to buy your way to a pennant??? Check out this article recently posted on ColoradoRockies.com "I heard from a number of people for a number of years that we had to come in here and bash the ball, that's the only way to win," Hurdle said. "I disagreed, and I was actually the hitting coach for a lot of that.

The countdown to the first day of ticket sales for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is on! 1.6 million tickets for the Olympic Winter Games go on sale in October 2008 and 250,000 Paralympic Winter Games tickets will be available in 2009.