Less than a year after the conservative-controlled Kansas State Board of Education adopted new rules challenging the teaching of evolution in classrooms, “moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack” and are hoping to “retake power” in an election today.
Hurricane experts and insurance industry reps met for the first time last month to plan for “a long overdue northeast hurricane which the latest computer models now predict could devastate the region and cripple the U.S. economy.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that the “U.S. and Israel are diverging some on how much longer Israel should continue its offensive against Hezbollah,” while the Washington Post “sees ‘fissures’ between the U.S. and its European allies” over the make-up of a potential cease-fire.
A renovation of the White House press briefing room will include a video wall that could display everything from “flags waving in the breeze [to] detailed charts and graphs,” part of a “subtle but sweeping effort by administration officials to deliver their message directly to the public, particularly through video.”
“Disney’s ABC television network has dropped plans to produce a Holocaust-themed miniseries” overseen by Mel Gibson, who reportedly went on an anti-Semitic tirade after he was arrested for DUI last week.
$100 billion: The amount in taxes lost each year due to “sham companies hiding the assets of super-wealthy Americans and corporations offshore.”
Violence in Iraq left at least 55 people dead on Tuesday, including at least 23 soldiers. One Iraqi man said, “The government is useless. Only days ago we suffered from a huge blast here. The interior minister has to admit they lost the war against the terrorists.”
“[A]fter months of disillusionment, America’s neoconservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration” over its tacit support for the ongoing Mideast violence, the Financial Times reports.
Former Vice President chief of staff Scooter Libby “asked a federal judge on Monday to allow a memory expert to testify in their bid to show Libby may have been confused or had a faulty memory in recalling conversations in the CIA leak case.”
And finally: Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) knows cool. Remarking on primary challenger Ned Lamont’s appearance last night on the Colbert Report, Lieberman said, “I think you can try too hard to be cool and the coolness can come back to hit you in the face.”
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