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Conservatives Vow No Letup in Health Protests

Conservative activists are vowing to keep up their fight against President Barack Obama’s health care plans, even as the Democratic Party pushes back hard, accusing Republicans of organizing angry mobs.
Democrats and the White House are claiming that the sometimes rowdy protests that have disrupted Democratic lawmakers’ meetings and health care events around the country are [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Sotomayor Confirmed for Supreme Court, First Hispanic Justice

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination by a 68-31 vote, making her the first Hispanic on the high court.
Sotomayor’s confirmation also makes the 55-year-old federal appeals court judge the 111th person to sit on the Supreme Court, and the third female justice. Nine Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus in [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Koobface Returns, Twitter knocked Offline

Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.”
The denial-of-service attack coincides with the launch of a new Koobface malware run using Twitter messages as a distribution vector for fake security software [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Vanessa Hudgens’ Latest Naked Photo Scandal

Did Vanessa Hudgens not learn her lesson the first time nude photos of her leaked? Or has she been set up?
In September 2007, the “High School Musical” starlet hit headlines when pictures of her posing naked hit the internet. Despite speculation that she would be dumped by Disney, Hudgens publicly apologized for the “embarrassing” photos [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Will Paula Abdul Move to So You Think You Can Dance?

Now that Paula Abdul announced that she’s leaving American Idol, what will she do next?
While Abdul is filming another guest-starring role on an episode of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Gorgeous, FOX executives spoke at a Television Critics’ Association panel on Thursday in Los Angeles, saying Abdul’s judging days are far from over — she may just [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Harry Reid Says the GOP is ‘Run By a Talk Show Host’

Reid, armed with a patch of Astroturf, slammed Republicans for sponsoring town hall attacks on Democrats and accused the party of waging a barricade on Democratic efforts to pass health care reform legislation.
“I just want to show you what Astroturf really is,” Reid said to laughter. “They’re taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Recession’s Job Losses May Take Years to Recoup

There’s growing optimism about signs of life in the economy — expected to be capped with Friday’s report showing continued slowing in the pace of job losses. But this recovery, when it comes, won’t feel like any in memory.
The reason is that consumers — the mainspring of the economy — remain hunkered down. Growth is [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Hackers Attack Twitter & Facebook

A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Adam Yauch, MCA, of the Beastie Boys Recovering from Surgery

Adam Yauch, aka MCA, recently sent an e-mail with the subject line “What I did over my summer vacation” after having revealed in July that he had a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland.
“So I’m about a week and a half out of surgery now and rapidly recovering from it,” the e-mail said. “I [...]

(August 6th, 2009)

Health Care Debate, Mob Rule or Democracy in Action?

The Democratic National Committee released a Web video and e-mail on Wednesday blasting opponents of the 10-year, $1 trillion plan.
Titled “Enough of the Mob,” the ad warns that the “right wing extremist base” is back after losing the presidential election, a series of legislative battles and the confidence of Americans.
“Now, desperate Republicans and their well-funded [...]

(August 5th, 2009)