- May
- 12
A colleague goes after an iguana with a video camera—and lands on Leno.
Watch “here”:http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes.shtml#vid=2—Zoo Tube on Thursday, May 8, episode at about the 22 minute mark.
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm |
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- May
- 9
Chelsea Clinton with a Mother’s Day message to her mother.
“And remember, your little girls can be anything they want to be in America when they grow up. Even if it’s to be the second woman president.”
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm |
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- May
- 8
Later this month, Lehman College in the Bronx will hold a program called “The United Nations at Lehman College: A Homecoming.”
A homecoming?
Apparently so. The campus is the original home of the United Nations. It was 1946, and the campus then housed the uptown branch of Hunter College. Tthe Soviet Union staged its first walkout, the Atomic Energy Commission was formed under Bernard Baruch and Eleanor Roosevelt began the work that led to the Declaration of Human Rights.
The program will take place on May 21 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
Margaret Bruce, an assistant to Roosevelt and a Mount Kisco resident whom I wrote about a few weeks ago, will take part in a symposium on “The United Nations: Past, Present and Future.” Also participating will be Brian Urquhart, the former undersecretary general for special political affairs, and Betty Teslenko, the former deputy head, Verbatim Reporting Section.
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 8:33 pm |
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- May
- 7
John McCain’s home state newspaper analyzes his record and concludes that in tight Senate votes, the Republican is not a maverick.

The Arizona Republic looks at the most divided issues in the last decade and finds that McCain almost never cost his party its objectives.
More “here.”:http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0507mccainvotes0507.html
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm |
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- May
- 7
There’s been lots of talk about how the long primary is hurting the Democrats, Barack Obama, especially.
Over the last weeks, he has been battered by the controversy surrounding his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Turn on Fox News in particular and you’ll catch some commentator repeating one of Wright’s more incendiary comments.
Meanwhile, John McCain has been traveling the country with very little of the media focused on him.
But after last night’s victory, I’m not sure the timing has been a bad thing for Obama. Could the sting be out of the Wright relationship?
His opponents will continue to bring it up. Karl Rove said as much last night. But they might need a fresh line of attack.
As for Obama, last night he turned the attacks back on the attackers.
“Yes, we know what’s coming,” he said. “I’m not naive.”
“The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences, to turn us against each other for political gain, to slice and dice this country into red states and blue states, blue-collar and white-collar, white, black, brown, young, old, rich, poor.”
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am |
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- May
- 6
Clinton-Obama. Obama-Clinton.
Right now it’s hard to picture the two senators on the same ticket, but here’s a “Web”:http://www.voteboth.com site promoting just that.
Its creator is Adam Parkhomenko, who resigned from the Clinton campaign earlier this year. 
Here’s what Parkhomenko said in a release today announcing the relaunch of the site.
“Originally my goal was to have a place for Clinton-Obama supporters (in that order) to organize. But over the last few weeks, I have talked with Obama supporters who talk about a Obama-Clinton ticket. And they’re right, too.”

The campaign re-filed with the FEC last week as “Vote Both” to show its commitment to bringing both senators together regardless of which is the presidential nominee.
“Vote Both” was known formerly as “Clinton-Obama 08.”
AP PHOTOS: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign before today’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Obama by Jae C. Hong.; Clinton by Elise Amendola
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pm |
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- May
- 5
From the Associated Press, New York City has started issuing citations in the calorie posting dispute.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Health Department has started issuing citations to chain restaurants that aren’t posting calorie counts on their menus.
Monday is the first day that restaurants are being cited for not following the law. But fines will not start until July.
The New York City law requiring restaurants to post calorie counts applies to chains with at least 15 outlets across the country.
The state Restaurant Association is fighting the law in court.
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm |
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- May
- 1
The liberal group, Media Matters for America, reports today that since the end of February, The Washington Post published 53 articles mentioning the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama, and 40 editorials and op-ed pieces.
The New York Times published 46 articles and 22 editorials and op-eds, according to the group.
Media Matters argued that the media should have been paying equal attention to John McCain and his endorsement by John Hagee, a pastor criticized for his statements about the Catholic church and gays. I disagree. However hateful Hagee’s comments, Hagee was not McCain’s minister for 20 years.
Still, that’s a lot of attention on Obama and his minister as controversial as Wright has become.

As for Fox News, which has been consumed by the story, Wednesday night on Hannity and Colmes Karl Rove said Obama appeared to have political motives in condemning Wright’s comments.
Rove: “Well, it comes off as political. He still — this problem is going to remain. He probably did some good in diminishing it but it still remains.”
Will he raise the bar no matter what Obama does now?
Earlier Rove had written: “It would have been better to say from the start that Wright’s words were wrong and offensive and you should have spoken out earlier. The applause would have been deafening.”
PHOTO: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit Sunday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Byline:Â
Posted by Noreen O'Donnell on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm |
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