| Child Rape Is Okay if You're Roman Polanski Posted: 30 Sep 2009 11:25 AM PDT  If Roman Polanski hadn't made a bunch of excellent movies and won an Oscar, would we be up in arms about a fugitive being brought to justice after three decades on the run? No, he'd be on America's Most Wanted. Ronda Kaysen: If I have to hear one more person bemoan the justice system because Roman Polanski finally got arrested for pleading guilty to child rape and skipping town before sentencing, I'll scream. So what if the guy makes really good movies? He raped a 13-year-old girl. It doesn't matter that the victim has come forward and said she no longer wants to see him prosecuted because
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| GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:11 PM PDT ![]() General Motors Co. said Wednesday it would shut down its Saturn brand after an agreement with Penske Automotive Group Inc. to acquire it fell apart.
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| Dennis Hopper goes to hospital (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:35 PM PDT  AP - Dennis Hopper, in town to publicize his TV series "Crash," was taken to a hospital after developing flulike symptoms.
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| What Would John Adams Drink? Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:27 AM PDT ![]() Get ready for the rebirth of cider in America.
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| Key figure in Polanski documentary says he lied (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:35 AM PDT  AP - A former prosecutor who told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski's case now says he lied about that.
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| Travolta testifies Bahamas medic threatened him Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:10 PM PDT  NASSAU, Bahamas -- John Travolta testified Wednesday that a Bahamas paramedic threatened to sell stories to the news media suggesting the movie star was at fault in the death of his 16-year-old son.
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| Andy Williams: Obama Wants The Country To Fail Posted: 29 Sep 2009 06:43 PM PDT ![]() Old pop crooner Andy Williams, whose hits include 'Moon River,' has some choice words for "Marxist" President Obama. Williams, 81, has always been a Republican (Ronald Reagan once declared his voice "an American treasure") but in the past has held more moderate views. He claims good friendship with the Kennedy family and thought that Bobby would have made a great president had he lived. No such goodwill towards the current president, the Telegraph reports: "Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing.
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| Sex, scorn and videotape (Politico) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 11:58 AM PDT  Politico - When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards's big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply.
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| Supreme Court returns to firearms fray Posted: 30 Sep 2009 07:46 AM PDT ![]() The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will return to the controversy over individual gun rights by hearing an appeal ...
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| Report: CIT Group again on brink of collapse (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 07:24 AM PDT ![]() CIT Group Inc. shares plunged Wednesday as the commercial lender is reportedly trying to craft an exchange that would cut its debt and offer bondholders an equity stake in the company in a bid to avoid bankruptcy.
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| Saudi king's university slammed for coed classes (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT ![]() AP - A prominent Muslim cleric has criticized a new Saudi university launched by King Abdullah for allowing men and women to take classes together.
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| China doubles order for Sinovac swine flu vaccine (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 07:55 AM PDT ![]() Sinovac Biotech Ltd. said Wednesday the Chinese government purchased 3 million more doses of Sinovac's Panflu.1 swine flu vaccine, bringing the total order to 6.3 million doses.
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| Jordan's costly mansion Posted: 30 Sep 2009 10:13 AM PDT  NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is building a luxurious 37,942-square-foot home in Florida.
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| How similar are the cases against Iran and Iraq? Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:20 AM PDT  (updated below) Scott Shane has an article in today's New York Times examining whether the government and media's behavior now with regard to Iran is similar to what happened in 2002 and 2003 concerning Iraq. I'm quoted in the article in several places, including saying that the "similarities are substantial and disturbing." I want to focus on one point raised by this topic. Although I think there are ample similarities, I don't think the situations are identical. To begin with, I don't believe (though it's obviously just speculation) that Obama's motive -- at least at this point -- is a
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| Despite Outrage, Many House Republicans Have Said Dem Health Care Will Kill People Posted: 30 Sep 2009 08:43 AM PDT  Congressional Republicans are expressing outrage over freshman Rep. Alan Grayson's suggestion on the House floor Tuesday night that the GOP health care plan amounts to little more than "don't get sick" -- and if you do, "die quickly." Republicans have called for an apology from the Florida Democrat, and have compared Grayson's remark to Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) "You lie!" outburst. But there's a big a difference between the two floor statements. One was unprecedented -- the president had never been called a liar by a member of Congress during an address in all of American history. By co
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