Conservative

McCain Likely to Name VP Pick Friday - Washington Post
SEDONA, Ariz., Aug. 27 -- With Sen. John McCain likely to announce his vice presidential choice Friday at a noon rally in Dayton, Ohio, a new Washington Post - ABC News poll indicates that 20 percent of the Republican's supporters would be less ...

Gallup: Obama Losing Support Among Conservative Democrats - CNS News
The Gallup daily tracking poll indicates that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been losing support among conservative Democrats as his presidential race with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has tightened into a dead heat. In June, according to Gallup, Obama ...

Teacher Joe Panebianco didn't believe in sugarcoating - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools SAFETY HARBOR — At first, some of Joe Panebianco's students were jarred by his style. He wasn't one for self-pity. If they had problems, he said, fix them. "He didn't really believe in sugarcoating anything," said his wife, Janet. "He ...

Obama still stumbling in polls - Seattle Post Intelligencer
DENVER -- Democrats are certainly energized by Sen. Hillary Clinton's home-run speech Tuesday night, and the energy level at the Democratic convention is clearly kinetic. But the national polls are showing something completely at odds with Democrats ...

TiVo makes profit but sees loss - Guardian Unlimited
LOS ANGELES, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc forecast a wider-than-expected third-quarter loss, citing legal costs, and shares fell more than 3 percent, erasing most of the day's gains. The company, which helped revolutionize ...

UPDATE 1-Australia state power sale plan set to collapse - Reuters UK
SYDNEY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - An Australian state's planned A$10 billion ($8.6 billion) sale of power assets was on the brink of collapse on Thursday after an influential bloc of lawmakers vowed to oppose the plan. The government of Australia's most ...

Protesters face police in Thailand - International Herald Tribune
BANGKOK : The leaders of thousands of protesters who were blockading the prime minister's compound refused a civil court's orders to leave the premises on Wednesday and challenged the police to enter and arrest them. Following a clash between ...

Ordnance Survey defends its use of lobbying company - Guardian Unlimited
Ordnance Survey, Britain's biggest trader in government information, has robustly defended its use of a lobbying firm, Mandate Communications, to communicate with MPs and other politicians. In a letter to the Guardian, Nicole Perry, head of public ...

Harper aims to crush Liberals, says former adviser - Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Conventional wisdom suggests Stephen Harper must be mad to thrust the country into an election at a time when he has little hope of winning a majority. The Prime Minister himself has acknowledged that public opinion polls “aren't ...

Chile's morning-after pill still controversial - Miami Herald
SANTIAGO, Chile Five months after Chile's Constitutional Tribunal banned the government from providing emergency contraception in public clinics, the ''morning-after'' pill remains a simmering source of controversy here, despite polls that indicate ...