Washington Post, United States - Among them will be Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, anchor of Face The Nation and author of the new book Bob Schieffer's America. He was online Monday, September 15 at 2 p.m. ET to talk about his books, the latest political news and his preparations for moderating one of this fall's presidential debates. And if you ask nicely, he'll probably tell you about his second career as a country music artist.

Bob Schieffer: Hi everyone, thanks for joining us. I'm here because I've got a new book out, "Bob Schieffer's America." It is a collection of the commentaries I've

Helena Independent Record, MT - From a young age, Celinda Lake has been interested in women’s rights. She grew up on a ranch between Livingston and Bozeman and attended a women’s college in Massachusetts.

She is now considered a leading political strategist for the Democratic Party and a nationally recognized expert on electing female candidates.

Lake, who now lives in Washington, D.C., is speaking in Helena on Saturday to support and raise awareness for the Women’s Foundation of Montana. She’ll share the results of extensive polling she has done about women and how they are changing the face of America politically, socially and economically.

Lake is the president

renewamerica.us - Washington,DC,USA - Due to contractual obligations, for the present time I am unable to reveal why I am not currently hosting The Laura Ingraham Show. Rest assured, this absence is not of my choosing, nor is it health or family related. I am ready, willing and eager to continue the conversation we started seven years ago about politics and the culture. (Heck, if cancer couldn't keep me off the airwaves for long, nothing will.) Keep checking the site for a schedule of my appearances on the Fox News Channel. All queries regarding my on-air status should be directed to Talk Radio Network's

Colby News - Waterville, ME, USA - John Stossel is the host of ABC's news program 20/20. His career as a journalist has merited high praise for his work as a consumer reporter and as an investigative reporter. Stossel has won 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times by the National Press Club for excellence in consumer reporting.

Stossel's lecture at Colby will expose the government's monopoly on education and the weak state of the American public education system. His talk will challenge many of the accepted ideas about public education and will offer free market solutions on how to improve the education system in the

Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca, NY, USA - If the next president of the United States wants to call up General Anthony Zinni for guidance on what he or she should make a priority in the first term in office, Zinni already has his advice planned out.

Zinni, who was named the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor last year, delivered a lecture last night in Call Auditorium entitled “The New World Order.” Zinni is a retired general in the United States Marine Corps, former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Central Command, and has traveled to more than 70 countries during his military and diplomatic services.

Zinni’s advice to

ESPN - USA - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig wants the players named in the Mitchell report to bear some accountability for their involvement in performance-enhancing drugs -- and that is slowing progress in talks with the players' union on implementing Mitchell's recommendations, The New York Times reported.

Selig, while willing to forgo suspensions for players named in the report, wants those players to be held responsible in some other way, the Times reported, citing two lawyers who had been briefed on the talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.

That accountability could include counseling or fines.

"He wants a small dose of action and that will satisfy

Socialite Report - New York, NY, USA - Could it be? Something that Ann Coulter, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and I all have in common? It think so...

Ann Coulter is a right-wing conservative puppet with a big mouth. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a moderate Republican talk show host. I am a moderate blogger Democrat. What could we all have in common? It's our belief that Barack Obama missed the boat with his race speech.

For once, these two echo my sediments. Why in the world would Barack Obama throw his white grandmother into the fire like that?

And as Hasselbeck said on "The View," I'm also insulted that Obama calls someone who has

Huffington Post - New York, NY, USA - Dana Perino gets points for bravery, both for going on The Daily Show and for doing so in hot pink — but otherwise last night's interview with the current White House Press Secretary was sort of...uncomfortable. She handled it like a pro, of course — Jon Stewart called her "unflappable" — but otherwise it did little to contradict her image as a smooth spinmeister who remains on message no matter what other human response may be required. (For example, Stewart picked up on last week's headline wherein she said that no one in the briefing room asked her about Iraq

Daily Colonial - Washington, DC, USA - The super power image of the United States is dwindling among international eyes, according to a group of experts in the Jack Morton Auditorium Wednesday afternoon. The panel moderated by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and former Senator Sam Nunn paralleled this decline with the vigorous “Anti-American” attitudes have emerged in since the start of the Iraq war.

These perceptions served as the basis for the inaugural installment of the “Cohen-Nunn Dialogues,” an event was co-sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Howard-Gilman Foundation.

“Anti-Americanism has become an entrenched set of attitudes around the world,” said Andrew

Third Party Watch - USA - A sampling of 98 Libertarian National Convention delegates suggests that Wayne Allyn Root is currently the frontrunner with respect to the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Of the 14 candidates tested, Root earned 22.45% of delegate votes. He was followed by Steve Kubby with 14.29% and George Phillies with 10.20%.

Several factors need to be considered, however. With less than a quarter of the delegates, it doesn’t look like (at this time) Root could win the first round of votes at the convention. In this case, second choice preferences become extremely important. A comparison of negatives between the various candidates shows that

PRWeek - New York, NY, USA - Tucker Carlson, resident bow-tie wearer and conservative commentator at MSNBC, is out as host but will stay on as senior campaign correspondent. The news network will replace Tucker with Race for the White House, to be hosted by political correspondent David Gregory, starting Monday. Refusing to “whine about it,” Carlson praised MSNBC for being nice to him throughout his tenure. He then followed up last week's smackdown of a journalist from The Scotsman by taking a shot at hooker-scandal-surrounded New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer on the way out the door.

In focus: Toni Locy

Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy is fighting

The Money Times - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - MSNBC canceled the low rated daily show led by Tucker Carlson on Monday and temporarily substituted it with a new, politically oriented program featuring NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory.

Gregory’s program will be shown weeknights beginning at 6 p.m., and he will also carry on covering the White House for NBC News, the parent of MSNBC, the cable channel said.

Also, MSNBC said that Andrea Mitchell, an expert political correspondent for both the cable channel and NBC News, would anchor another new campaign-oriented program, which is to be televised at 1 p.m. weekdays. Currently, the channel shows regular news

TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe, GA, USA - MSNBC cancelled Tucker, the show hosted by Tucker Carlson, on Monday. The time slot will be replaced by a show starring NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory.

Gregory's show will be a fresher politically-oriented show. Gregory is a back-up for Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show.

Carlson will remain with MSNBC as a campaign correspondent, covering the presidential race from Washington and the road.

Gregory, whose program will be shown weeknights beginning at 6 pm, will continue be the chief White House correspondent for NBC News, the parent company of MSNBC.

MSNBC also announced that Andrea Mitchell, a veteran political correspondent for both

TV Squad - Santa Monica, CA, USA - Arch, conservative, preppie guy Tucker Carlson has been ousted from his MSNBC show. Carlson's one-hour talk show, called Tucker, has been canceled. NBC News correspondent David Gregory will take over the hour slot, 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, which will be called Race for the White House. This week will be Carlson's last. Gregory starts on Monday, March 17.

MSNBC is reportedly making a series of changes, amping up the political chatter. Considering how much politicking is going on now, including Tucker, it's hard to fathom how switching Carlson for Gregory is going to increase the discourse.

Carlson has known for a

Durham News - NC, USA - This month marks five years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. In the meantime, Osama bin Laden, who directed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, continues to call terrorist shots from caves in western Pakistan, having escaped Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion in 2001. If you, too, are distressed by the use and misuse of the U.S. military since 9/11, there's something you can do about it: vote.

In November, voters will elect a new president, the next commander-in-chief of the military. Retired four-star Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, who served under eight presidents from 1961 until retiring in 2000, and has

Toledo Blade - Toledo, OH, USA - About 25 Roman Catholics sat around a crackling fire in Monclova Township last night for casual conversation about Barack Obama, his presidential candidacy, and what he plans if he becomes president.

One of them happened to be Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of U.S. Sen. Edward ''Ted'' Kennedy (D., Mass.). Another was former U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer (D., Ind.), who was a member of the 9/11 Commission.

Both spoke of their faith and their support for Mr. Obama. For more than an hour, they and the guests - including a teacher, a person who works in health care, a priest, and religious sisters

U.S. News & World Report - Washington, DC, USA - Funny guys Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert have been warring over the airwaves over who first discovered and "made" Mike Huckabee, the once obscure former Arkansas governor, into the popular Republican presidential candidate he is today.

Colbert first claimed to have made Huckabee by giving him an appearance on his TV show. O'Brien argued that he made Huckabee by featuring unintentionally funny clips of Huckabee supporter Chuck Norris on his show. Then Jon Stewart got involved, arguing that he made Conan O'Brien — dusting off an old tape in which he interviewed O'Brien on his short-lived talk show from the mid-1990s.

In

Medical Marketing and Media - New York, NY, USA - Charlotte Beers, the former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, called for pharma companies to confront their critics and stand up for their industry.

"I'm mad as hell and I want to do something about it," she told delegates at the Pharmaceutical Brand Leadership conference in Chicago last month. The enemy, Beers said, "comes clothed in all kinds of righteous wardrobes: it's the rampant politician, it's the singer, it's the star, it's the elderly, it's charities, all of whom seem to have permission to treat the industry as a whipping boy."

Beers, who was charged with reshaping America's global

Radio World - Falls Church, VA, USA - The fall NAB Radio Show already was going to feature a Republican pollster; now it has added a liberal talker.

Radio and TV commentator Bill Press is scheduled to speak during the Radio Luncheon at the NAB Radio Show on Friday, Sept. 28 in Charlotte, N.C.

The ASCAP-sponsored Radio Luncheon will honor Jerry Lee, independent owner of WBEB(FM), Philadelphia, with the National Radio Award.

The host of “The Bill Press Show: Hardline Liberal Talk With No Apologies” has received several awards for his work, including “Best Commentator of the Year” by Associated Press. For six years, Press was co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire.” He

The Raleigh Telegram, NC - Former US Senator and presidential candidate Bill Bradley will be speaking at both UNC and NCSU on Monday. In Chapel Hill, Bradley will be endorsing Barack Obama's economic policy and in Raleigh, he will be speaking on the battle between Russia and Georgia.

According to Barack Obama's campaign, Bradley will be speaking at UNC-Chapel Hill on afternoon Monday to discuss Senator Obama’s Economic Policy.

"The former Democratic presidential candidate and professional basketball player is a longtime champion of federal policies that support working families," said Obama's campaign.

Bradley will be speaking at 2:30pm in the UNC Student Union building near the Pit in

Colgate University News & Events - Hamilton, NY, USA - Actor, lawyer, author, game-show host, and former White House speechwriter Ben Stein advised students crammed into Memorial Chapel Tuesday night on how they could “ruin” their lives.

Stein has published 16 books, including How to Ruin your Financial Life and How to Ruin your Love Life. Students erupted in laughter as he provided advice dripping with sarcasm:

-- Don’t learn any useful skills. Just play video games or listen to rap music.
-- Don’t learn any self-discipline. Just be a big baby all your life. Don’t study or deny yourself anything.
-- Convince yourself that you are the center of the universe. Truth is,

The Tidings - Los Angeles, CA, USA - In "Men at Work," George F. Will began his celebration of baseball defense with a tale of Cal and Bill Ripken turning a rally-killing double-play while their father watched from the visitors' dugout in Toronto --- and concluded with an appropriately blue-collar ending:

"After the third out the two Ripkens ran off the field, same pace, arms held in the same position, forearms cocked slightly above parallel to the ground, eyes straight ahead, looking into the dugout. They ran past their father, the third-base coach. It was just another night on the factory floor for the Ripken men..."

Cal Ripken's induction into

NARREIA - Las Vegas, NV, USA - There is a lot of talk about how the sub-prime mortgage industry is wreaking havoc on the global economy. I'll have to admit that I'm not econo-geeky enough to understand how the T-Bonds are connected to the LIBOR-bone, and the LIBOR-bone is connected to the Yeild Curve-bone, or any of the other tangled, intricate web of how the lending industry is interrelated. But I do get that when 20% of the buyers are no longer able to obtain loans, it's a serious impact on the supply and demand equation.

But my view is quite myopic, focusing on how the mortgage lending

Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu, HI, USA - The University of Michigan Center for Risk Science and Communication just announced that registration is now open for the 2007 Bernstein Symposium: "Nanotechnology and Health: Evidence and Impact." Keynote Speaker: Christine Todd Whitman.

The symposium will bring together leading scientists and policymakers to examine the emerging field of nanotechnology, its potential impact on human health, and the growing debate over whether to regulate nanotechnology products.

Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey (1994-2001) and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2003), will discuss nanotechnology through her keynote address, "Risky, Riskier, Riskiest: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Possibilities for Policymakers." Other national and international

Washington Times - Washington, DC, USA - White House press secretary Tony Snow yesterday said he will leave the Bush administration before the end of the president's term, joining a long — and growing — list of top officials streaming out of the White House.

Mr. Snow, 52, who has been battling colon cancer that he learned in March has returned and spread to his liver, said financial pressures will force him to move on before Jan. 20, 2009.

"I will not be able to make it to the end of this administration, just financially," Mr. Snow said yesterday. On Wednesday, he said in a radio interview that he

Boone Mountain Times - NC, USA - Capitol Steps will entertain the High County audience on Aug. 18 in a fundraiser to benefit the Hayes Performing Arts Center’s community outreach activities, which include offering ticket discounts, master classes taught by renowned artists and other arts-centric activities for students and other groups in the High Country.

The different giving levels/ticket prices for the fundraiser are: Producers - $350, Directors - $250, and $100 regular ticket prices. In addition to premiere seating (Producers seats are in the Hayes Center’s VIP box suites on the mezzanine level with private concessions) during Capitol Steps, Producers and Directors also are invited to an

New York Times - United States - Karl Rove, the political adviser who masterminded President George W. Bush’s two winning presidential campaigns and secured his own place in history as a political strategist with extraordinary influence within the White House, announced on Monday that he would resign at the end of the month.

In an unusually emotional appearance with President Bush on the South Lawn of the White House, Mr. Rove cited a desire to “start thinking about the next chapter in our family’s life.” His decision was also forced when the White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, recently told senior aides that if they stayed