Herman Cain, the GOP candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination and ex-CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, showed a depressing knowledge gap yesterday when Chris Wallace asked him about the Palestinian “right of return” on Fox News Sunday . He “stumbled hard,” reports Fox News, and twice haltingly called it “something … that should…
Continue reading …Last week, the city council in Forest Park, Georgia, limited public breastfeeding to children under age two. Today, 200 nursing moms and supporters will stage a “nurse-in” at City Hall to express their displeasure. “Breastfeeding women have to take a stand against laws like this or the laws will become…
Continue reading …Toyota has serious institutional flaws that pose a threat to the safety of its vehicles, finds an independent review out today. The problems stem from a “sense of pride at being number one” that can become “arrogance and foster complacency,” says the report, conducted by a panel the firm convened…
Continue reading …A newborn baby tossed down a New York City housing project’s trash chute survived the eight-story fall because he landed on a pile of garbage and the compactor was jammed. A maintenance worker heard the baby’s cries coming from the trash compactor yesterday morning in the Walt Whitman Houses in…
Continue reading …Despite the fact that Chris Christie has joked that committing suicide might be the only way to convince supporters he’s not running in 2012, President Obama’s campaign is still trying to get the dirt on the New Jersey governor. Sources tell the New York Post that Obama operatives are compiling…
Continue reading …South Sudan’s move toward independence has taken a turn for the worse: Armed looters burned sections of a disputed Sudan border town today as north Sudan’s army refused UN orders to withdraw from it, Reuters reports. Entering the town with tanks, the north took control of Abyei this weekend; thousands…
Continue reading …Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s story might seem like Law & Order fodder, but it would actually make for a “sprawling, complex, kaleidoscope-of-globalization” movie—something along the lines of Traffic or Babel , writes Ross Douthat, who summarizes the plot as he sees it in the New York Times . It would tell the story…
Continue reading …Barack Obama let his Irish pride shine today in a speech before an exultant sea of people in Dublin, telling them he’d come to reaffirm the US’ enduring friendship with Ireland, the AP reports. “There’s always been a little green behind the red, white, and blue,” he told the roughly…
Continue reading …Tennis star and undeniable hottie Anna Kournikova will replace Jillian Michaels next season on the Biggest Loser , X17online reports. Kournikova, whom PopEater notes has been dating singer Enrique Iglesias for nearly 10 years, recently put her Miami mansion on the market for $9.4 million—perhaps because she’s preparing a…
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