National News from AP: Headlines - Ledger Independent

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

National News from AP: Headlines - Ledger Independent
CHICAGO - Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and _ in a move sure to cause
Source: www.maysville-online.com

Man storms China police station, stabs 5 officers - Houston Chronicle
BEIJING — Shanghai authorities say a man stormed into a police station and stabbed five officers to death. The Shanghai public security bureau says in a news release that the 28-year-old man rushed into the building Tuesday morning after setting a
Source: www.chron.com

UPDATE CIT sells home lending ops to Lone Star Funds for $5.9 billion - CNBC
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - CIT Group Inc. said on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its home lending operations to Lone Star Funds for $1.5 billion, plus the assumption of $4.4 billion in debt and other related liabilities. The company said it was also
Source: www.cnbc.com

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Former Bush donors now giving to Obama - Miami Herald

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Former Bush donors now giving to Obama - Miami Herald
Beverly Fanning is among the campaign donors who’ll be joining President Bush at a gala at Washington’s Ford’s Theater Sunday night, but she says that won’t dissuade her from her current passion: volunteering for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign
Source: www.miamiherald.com

Berkshire Hathaway’s Brand of Investing - Washington Post
From his growing list of acquisitions, Warren E. Buffett seems to be investing like the world’s richest 10-year-old boy, if that boy lived in 1955 America. He is Coca-Cola’s largest shareholder. He owns Dairy Queen . Last year, Buffett got a train
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

United Airlines, US Airways drop merger talks - San Francisco Gate
del.icio.us United Airlines and US Airways said Friday they have stopped discussing a possible merger and will go it alone, doing business in an onerous economy with crude oil in the $130-a-barrel range. The nation’s second- and fifth-largest
Source: www.sfgate.com

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Chain of Command

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Chain of Command
Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers — and outraged the Bush Administration — with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?

Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he’s challenged America’s power elite by publishing the stories that others can’t or won’t tell.

In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush’s "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. With an introduction by The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.

Publisher: Harper Collins US
Author: Seymour M Hersh
Narrator: Peter Friedman
ISBN: 0 06 078056 8
Normal Price: $29.95
Download Price: $19.95

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