| 'Conservative' FNC? 'Fox and Friends' Puffs Hillary Clinton
Is this the evil conservative Fox News that those on the left portray? From the December 17 "Fox and Friends" interview with Senator Hillary Clinton, one has to wonder where it came from. After a surprisingly tough interview with David Gregory on NBC's "Today," Senator Clinton sailed through a softball interview with the allegedly right wing Fox News. After Hillary's husband accused "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace of engaging in a "right wing hit job," and the left wing blog campaign to boycott the Fox News debates, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked such hard hitting questions like "how do you keep yourself going everyday?" Co-host Steve Doocy asked the tough question of what her name would be if she pulls off a victory in Iowa. "Your husband a couple of days ago said it would take a miracle for you to win in Iowa.
Keep focus on healthcare
Concentrating first on providing coverage for children is also an option.
Whatever direction the conversation takes, Nuñez and Schwarzenegger should keep the focus on comprehensive reform and the notion of shared responsibility. Their great achievement was forging a broad coalition for change. Their greatest failure would be letting it disintegrate.
Even children's healthcare advocates, who would gain tremendously if the talk turns to their cause, seem to understand this. One such advocate said he "just couldn't believe that these guys didn't get this done." He said he still had hopes for a comprehensive reform bill. He seems willing to put his interests aside -- at least for a little while -- for the greater good. Why can't our elected officials?
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Snowboarder dies at Steamboat
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. Ski area officials confirmed Friday afternoon that a 22-year-old snowboarder died at Steamboat Ski Area.
Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. spokesman Mike Lane said the individual was snowboarding on Snooze Bar, an intermediate trail on the upper mountain in the Morningside Park area, when the accident occurred.
Steamboat Ski Patrol responded to the scene at 2:30 p.m. and administered life support. Patrollers took the individual to an ambulance at the Slope Maintenance building, where he was pronounced dead.
The Routt Coroner is investigating the case. The individual's name is withheld pending notification of kin.
The death is the second at the ski area in 10 days.
On Jan. 15, Mark Joseph Stout, 45, of Ottsville, Pa., was skiing with his 15-year-old daughter and friends when he fell behind the group at about 11:30 a.m.
The Chronicle Sports Columnist Blog
It's tradition to name All-American teams at this time of the year, knowing full well that it's based on limited knowledge. Nobody sees enough of the Division I games to make a perfect assessment of who the best players are, and the amount of television exposure and a team's ranking play as big a part as the players' performances. A bigger problem is that a person's assessment of a player is based on what he sees of that player on TV. If he is on TV once and has a great game that day, then that player is seen as a great player in that viewer's eyes. If he happens to have his only bad game of the season while the nation is watching, he is seen as a mediocre player. Granting those shortcomings, and knowing that I'm bound to miss someone obvious, we forge ahead with are All-American teams, All-freshmen teams, and All-underpublicized teams.
Boot Camp, Mac cultists, and Windows salvation
Ah, a lazy Friday afternoon. Time to get ready for the weekend. A time to let my blood pressure drop and… Oh, wait. What's this I hear from MacUser.com ? There's a story about Boot Camp on USA Today's web site? Titled “Boot Camp will start exodus to Windows" by Andrew Kantor? Oh, my. So much for my blood pressure. Kantor's piece might be one of the most ridiculous Apple-related articles I've read in years. Batter up! Let's take it as it goes. Today, according to Information Week, the Mac's desktop share is less than 5%. But Boot Camp, say some people, will overcome that hurdle and help propel the Mac into the mainstream. Businesses will buy Macs for their employees, confident they'll be able to run all the needed applications. Gamers, who have pretty much shunned the Mac because the gaming picks are slim (to say the least), will be able to run those games on their Mac hardware.
Companies use Super Bowl in annual effort to win customers
If buzz is what advertisers using the Super Bowl to help their marketing are after, then he rates this year's pre-game chatter as less compelling than last year's. Last January, for example, people were talking about the Doritos consumer-generated commercial contest. This year the snack company is trying a "Crash the Super Bowl" competition, a spin on "American Idol" in which contestants sent in music clips. Mr. Nail said he's heard talk about the finalists -- a woman in Austin, a college guy and a group of rappers from New York -- but not about Doritos. Parent company Frito-Lay has shot 60-second videos for each of the three, only one of which will be shown during the Super Bowl. The winner gets a recording contract, too. Voting closed Sunday. The winner's showcase video might be a conversation starter depending on how it's handled, said Mr.
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