Politics by JT

Former White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer Conveniently Forgets About George W. Bush’s Favorite Gay Escort : Jeff Gannon / James Dale Guckert

THINK PROGRESS has  this piece up today mentioning the elusive and shadowy figure- Jeff Gannon.. Here’s an excerpt: If Bush was relying on Fleischer to screen the “dotcoms and oddballs,” he was poorly served. Take, for example, case of Jeff Gannon, the male escort-turned-White House correspondent for the right-wing news outlet Talon News. The White […]

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Economy by JT

Abandoned Horses Are On The Rise

By Jeff DeLong, USA TODAY Jack Noble was pretty sure what he would see when he arrived to check out reports of horses abandoned on a rural road in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in September. Noble, field operations manager for the state’s Department of Agriculture, found 11 filthy, sickly and starving horses. “They were just let […]

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web 2.0 by JT

Yahoo to Shorten Logs of User Activity to Three Months

WASHINGTON (AP) – Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) (YHOO) said Wednesday that it will shorten the amount of time that it retains data about its users’ online behavior – including Internet search records – to three months from 13 months and expand the range of data that it “anonymizes” after that period. The company’s new privacy policy […]

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Iraq by JT

British Troops Are Like: “We’re Out of Iraq, Cheerio”

(CNN) — British troops will begin leaving Iraq in May, more than six years after joining the U.S.-led invasion that ousted former dictator Saddam Hussein, Britain and Iraq announced Wednesday. The British mission will wrap up by the end of May, with the last troops withdrawing over the next two months, British Prime Minister Gordon […]

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