| Texas Democratic Presidential Primary: Clinton And Obama’s Dueling ...
On the one hand it's amazing that the first serious female candidate is playing a strong, decisive military card, on the other hand you wonder how voters will react to the closing image of a woman taking the call at 3 am. If there are any sexist stereotypes lurking out there in Texas, this will draw them to the surface. MY REACTION: I don't react as strongly against this ad as some do (and as an independent voter I react very strongly against negative campaigning). Perhaps it's because I was in the 8th grade watching TV when I saw the infamous LBJ ad that only aired once LIVE. That ad did shake me up and made me fear Barry Goldwater (I had only started becoming a political junkie and had not yet done extensive research.). This one is more polite, more subtle and it can be argued simply expands on Clinton's constantly-repeated experience theme.
Fort Lewis MPs find stolen handgun, 'suspicious device'
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - Military police at Fort Lewis have arrested a man after finding a handgun and a "suspicious device" in his car after making a routine traffic stop in one of the post's training areas.The arrest was made about 1 a.m. Friday.In the car, the MPs found a pistol that had been reported stolen, and in the trunk, a "tape-wrapped object about the size of a deck of playing cards wired to a garage door opener."The MPs called out soldiers from an explosive ordnance disposal unit, who rendered the device safe by about 7 a.m.A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said he didn't know whether the device proved to be a bomb.A U.S. Army news release says the man, who was not immediately identified, was arrested for outstanding warrants and was being held at Fort Lewis.The news release says MPs "have no indication that the suspect intended to target Fort Lewis personnel." .
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Our View -- Our quick take on some of last week's news stories
The remaining reports involved the use of chemical spray and one officer using a baton to subdue a subject. The only time officers fired their guns in the line of duty was in 42 reports of killing a sick or injured animal. That means that Iowa City police reported using force for only .2 percent of the 66,952 calls for service (which resulted in 6,451 arrests and 6,685 citations). The estimated national average is about 1 percent of police. Officer Ryan Wood definitely showed the benefit of such restraint and clear-headedness when an ordinary underage drinking citation turned ugly early Thursday morning ("Chase ends with various charges, including robbery," Feb. 29). Police reports said that as Wood was writing a possession of alcohol under the legal age ticket for Michael Roy Schroeder, two of Schroeder's friends -- Michael Stanley Fabinski and Michael Alexander Bakerdjis -- ran up to the scene, grabbed Wood's ticket book and pushed the officer.
2007's organization of the year
But Monday, they hit the jackpot. The Rockies were selected organization of the year by Baseball America, which will present the award today during the winter meetings. "This is more fulfilling than any award any of us could have won," general manager Dan O'Dowd said. "It affirms the efforts of the entire organization. It is recognition of the work everyone in the organization has done, from the business side to the baseball side. "This is what our organization is about, the sum of the parts, not one individual." A Rockies team that was a consensus pick to finish fourth or fifth in the National League West for the 10th consecutive season put on the strongest season-ending push in baseball history, claimed the NL wild card and swept its way to the pennant by knocking off Philadelphia in the NL Division Series and Arizona in the NL Championship Series before being swept by Boston in the World Series.
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