Two of world's remaining billionaires own homes in Park City, Utah

Seeded on Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:36 PM EDT (Park City Voyeur)

The worldwide Billionaire Club became even more exclusive this year after the global financial crises wiped out $1.4 trillion of billionaires' collective wealth in 2008.

travel, billionaires, stephen-ross, park-city-utah, lily-safra

In Utah, just don't look like you're drunk

Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:02 AM EDT (Park City Voyeur)

In Utah, it could be illegal to merely look like you're drunk, because appearances are evidently more important than fact, defying a previous ruling by the Utah Supreme Court that simply appearing to be drunk is not a crime. Hopefully none of you have an inner ear problem.

laws, odd-news, utah, liquor

Brazilian Gigi Kelson convicted of bilking Utah investors

Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:57 AM EDT (The Deseret News)

A woman who bilked acquaintances out of more than $149,000 has been convicted of multiple counts of securities fraud. What hurts most, the victims said, is they thought they checked it out before they invested.

world-news, gigi-kelson, grace-kelson

Jon Stewart rips CNBC on The Daily Show

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 6:28 PM EST (Video: Q & O | The Daily Show | Comedy Central)

This segment will be a classic.

business, the, show, daily

Clinton Internet Staffer Pushes Panic Button

Seeded on Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:24 PM EDT (ruralvotes.com/thefield)

The Clinton campaign staff member that was, since last year, responsible for making the candidate at least palatable to bloggers, Peter Daou - and we all can see what a great success that was! - sent out a private email today to people he hopes will be online surrogates for his c …

politics, barack-obama, hillary-clinton, election-2008

Once glossy, Clinton bid losing luster

Seeded on Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:35 PM EST (The Seattle Times)

Following a series of missteps, the sense of Hillary Clinton's inevitability slips away, giving Barack Obama an opening in first two key states.

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Historians for Obama

Seeded on Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:27 PM EST (History News Network)

Joyce Appleby, David Blight, Edward J. Blum, Clayborne Carson, Dennis C. Dickerson, W. Marvin Dulaney, James Grossman, Nancy A. Hewitt, Jonathan Holloway, Randal Jelks, Robert KC Johnson, Michael Kazin, Steven Lawson, James Livingston, Ralph E. Luker, James McPherson, Albert J.

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Tim Russert Misleadingly Crops Obama's Quote

Seeded on Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:44 PM EST (Media Matters for America)

Summary: Interviewing Barack Obama on Meet the Press, Tim Russert read a quote he attributed to Obama to suggest that he has "not been a leader against the [Iraq] war": "In July of 2004, Barack Obama: 'I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. ...

politics, barack-obama, tim-russert, 2008-presidential-campaign

Yes, the Fund-Raising Records Fell, Just Not as Far

Seeded on Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:30 PM EDT (The New York Times)

For Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, it was a monumental achievement: Her campaign announced in April that she had raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, more than any other presidential candidate.

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Obama's international melodrama

Seeded on Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:36 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

Obama's bombshell: If the Obama administration knows Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan and President Pervez Musharraf doesn't act to take him out, President Obama will.

politics, barack-obama, national-security