Tailrank: Top News for Sunday May 11, 2008 in Politics

McCain OK with Keeping One Burma Junta Lobbyist on Campaign

Sun, 11 May 2008 05:09:13 GMT

After having read account after account after account of John McCain's all-too-close relationship with lobbyists, it's hard for me to get too surprised at reading another account. Or at least I thought it was until reading Michael Isikoff today in Newsweek . ...

Ex-Mayo confidant says he gave USC star gifts including TV, cash

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:33:59 GMT

Louis Johnson, who was a part of Mayo's inner circle until recently, said Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter. Mayo, Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory is a unique and complex one. If these claims were ...

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:54 GMT

This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday May 11 2008 on p8 of the News section. Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Indeed, her 'relationship' ...

Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:46:58 GMT

How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying-or not saying? At meetings of his closest advisers, he likes to lean back, put his feet on the table and close his eyes. But he may not be able to resist casting doubt on Obama's patriotism.

Party Like It's 2008

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:31:43 GMT

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I told Tony Blair to sack Gordon Brown, says John Prescott

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:21:21 GMT

John Prescott says he urged Tony Blair to sack Gordon Brown at the height of their frequent rows - but the former prime minister was

Bill McKibben, The Defining Moment for Climate Change

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:15:12 GMT

Now, it's true that the industrial revolution, which led to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at historically unprecedented rates, was also, in a sense, "without historical precedent"; but most natural events -- unlike, say, the present staggering ice melt in the Arctic -- have been precedented (if I can manufacture such a word).

Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:17:01 GMT

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Young, evangelical ... for Obama

Sun, 11 May 2008 16:54:50 GMT

Ben Adam Climber, 20, a Seattle Pacific University student, talks about his political views. Students at a bipartisan political union meeting at the school say there's a new movement afoot. Older evangelicals are also questioning their traditional allegiance, but not at the same rate.

As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:18:10 GMT

Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse?