Phil Davison, the failed candidate for Stark County, Ohio, treasurer whose terrifyingly comical stump speech has become a viral video sensation, described the source of his frustration in an interview on Thursday — and said he was surprised by the reaction. In a conversation with Talking Point Memo‘s Christina Bellantoni, Davison explained that YouTube, and [...]

September 09, 2010 11:40 AM I was in Logar Province today and one of the junior officers there told me that the insurgents had been spreading leaflets around about the quran burning…… So Dave Petraeus wasn’t just spewing rhetoric about this…it is clearly an issue that they are concerned about… Martha Raddatz Correspondent COPY OF [...]

JERUSALEM — Israelis usher in the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashana, at sundown Wednesday with a widespread sense of pessimism that a new round of U.S.-sponsored Mideast talks can achieve peace. President Barack Obama wants a deal within a year, but Israelis are deeply skeptical after decades of failed efforts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

If merely for the amount of mystery surrounding it, today’s “Google Doodle” is officially, already, Comic Riffs’s Animation of the Day. If you haven’t already checked it out, this is the “doodle” that millions of viewers see when they go to use Google today — brightly colored “atomic particles” that repel from the mouse pointer: [...]

This conference boasts three teams who are threats to make a potential run at a national title and a few other teams who could make some noise before the year is over. With Virginia Tech leading the way and Miami, Florida State, and Georgia Tech not far behind, this may be the best the ACC [...]

Michael Jackson’s kids have been home schooled their whole lives but now they’ll be leaving the house and going, for the first time, to a traditional school. TMZ has reported that 13-year-old Prince and 12-year-old Paris have started at the well respected Buckley School. Prince really wanted to go to school to have “a social [...]

Araujo, who was going by the name “Lida” at the time, met Michael Magidson, Jose Merél, Jaron Nabors, and Jason Cazares in the summer of 2002. She was reported to have engaged in oral sex with Magidson and anal sex with Merél. She claimed to be menstruating and during sex would push her partners’ hands [...]