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Monthly Archive for October, 2008Page 2 of 33Patrick Campbell worries Barack Obama will raise his taxes but thinks John McCain will send people off to war. He says that leaves him leaning toward Obama … maybe.
An interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve and its announcement of multi-billion-dollar currency swaps sent Asian stocks soaring Thursday as signs emerged of a thaw in world credit markets.
A Qantas airliner had to follow an Air New Zealand jet across the Pacific after its weather radar broke down leaving it ‘flying blind’.
Sometimes political races are fought in your mailbox. On Monday, a Republican mailing against Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken roiled the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. The piece, which looks like a cartoon or comic book, addresses Franken’s past in unsavory ways.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.
Barack Obama will be a one-man television blitz on Wednesday, saturating prime-time with a 30-minute ad and popping up on the buzzy late-night TV scene.
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand have been suspended from their highly-paid BBC jobs amid the ongoing controversy over their prank phone calls to the veteran Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.
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