Gore Buys French Media Outlet

Baloon Juice reports:

“The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and Democratic fund-raiser, will close the deal to pay around $70 million to French-owned Vivendi Universal this week, making them

Bill Hobbs points out this morning that ANWR’s going to be opened anyway.

Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski’s office says:

The new areas to be offered for lease, exploration, and development are 670,000 acres of land off the coast of

Have you noticed that every time Kerry’s numbers are down, he goes to the ski slopes for a week, or goes to the hospital?
Emmett Tyrrell has.

Larry Elder has an interesting article up about the likability issues of John Kerry.

Yes, the right column is becoming a bit of a mess.
The first thing I need to clean up is the “Others are saying” section. When I first started it, I had in it in mind as a way of

Little Green Footballs is running at article I found of interest.

“EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Tens of thousands of euro of EU funds may have been diverted to people linked with Palestinian terrorism, according to a report from the European

Of all places, PRAVDA is where I’ll link you to today:

“Famous financier and philanthropist George Soros was poured with glue and water at the conference ‘Human Rights at Elections’ in Kiev. 
Two young people came into the conference room

James at Outside the Beltway notes the start of AIR AMERICA, the liberal mouthpeice.

I have but two words for this attempt: Mario Cuomo.

For those who don’t recall the context, Cuomo had a highly touted radio show and was

Hindrocket over at Power Line seems to think Tom Daschle is history. Can’t say I’ll be sorry to see it, but I’ll wait for some more solid polling data to come in.

Bob Musil seems to agree with Hindrocket.

The Washington Times: reports from London that:

“Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on

According to FOXNews.com:

“WASHINGTON – The White House agreed Tuesday to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (search) publicly testify under oath before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.”

Bill Hobbs mentions

Billy Beck over at Two–Four runs a Guardian story today that says in part:

“The French president, Jacques Chirac, woke up today to calls for a general election or dramatic cabinet shake-up after his centre-right government’s overwhelming defeat by the

In what’s becoming my daily Boortz quote:

“In 1999 the Senate convened a special committee on the Y2K scare.  The committee wanted testimony from none other than Richard Clarke.  That’s right .. the very same Richard Clarke, the great

Congrats to Reilly over at Right Voices who apparently saw my posting about Verges, that French lawyer who’s defending Saddam, and came up with an even more complete client list than I offered. The guy’s even a worse cockroach than

My long-form column column for last week the one about the Oil for Food abuses…has been generating megahits for the last week. Apparently, it’s attracting some attention, inclduing now, other Webmasters.

Frank Savato, over at THERANT.US tells me it’ll be