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There’s still a lot of question marks as to what the Suns and Warriors will do tonight in the NBA draft. Here’s the latest:
It appears that the Suns are not likely to acquire Kevin Garnett through a trade before the draft tonight. Steve Kerr and company are still trying to move up in […]

Brent Plater, a visiting professor and staff attorney with the Enviornmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate Law School recently did a nice perspective on KQED on the extinction of the Baiji Dolphin in China–I recommend that all of you take a listen. Plater was originally with the Center for Biological Diversity.

There’s more coverage […]

Politico has the latest on a new Suffolk University poll out in New Hampshire that shows Al Gore as the frontrunner in New Hampshire, despite the fact that the former Vice-President has not declared his candidacy. The Boston Globe also has a good article on Gore’s lead–here’s more:
For all of Hillary Clinton’s dominance […]

In Iowa, a PAC called the Draft Gore Committee bought the first of several 30 second radio ads urging Vice-President Al Gore to run for President:
The Draft Gore Committee launched its first radio ad today on WHO-AM radio in Des Moines.
The 30-second ad, dubbed “You-Who,” features a chorus of voices urging the former vice president […]

This one does a good job of criticizing the President’s policies while somehow retaining an optimistic tone:

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You know your presidency, and your place in history is in trouble when your popularity rating is barely above the President who brought us Watergate. Bush’s presidency is now hitting record lows in terms of popularity–only 26 percent of the country approves of the job he’s doing.
Bush’s numbers are even more striking when you […]

As expected, the President again vetoed stem cell research legislation which would lift federal restrictions on such research–research that could possibly cure or treat a myriad of afflictions that could help millions of Americans. But sadly, this President put his own dubious sense of “morality” before the public interest:
“I will not allow our nation […]

Speculation has already begun about who the Warriors might select with the 18th overall pick in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft. Among the names being thrown out are Javaris Crittenton (6-5 Guard, Georgia Tech), Derrick Byars (6-7 G/F Vanderbilt), Thaddeus Young, and Rudy Fernandez (6-5 G, Spain). But these […]

Tim Duncan said tonight in the postgame that it doesn’t matter how they get their wins–even if it means the NBA cheats to do it.
Somehow, the referees inexplicably declined to call a foul on Bowen as LeBron James shot a three-pointer in an attempt to tie the game. And the foul happened RIGHT […]

From one civil war in Iraq to another among Palestinians, it’s starting to feel like the entire world is slowly degenerating into chaos and war. Hamas and the US-backed Fatah Palestinian Authority are now in the midst of intense fighting that is getting worse by the hour–Hamas is trying to effectively wrest power from […]