| Obama planning Thursday appearance at Tulane
In the run-up to Louisiana's presidential primary Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is expected to make a campaign swing through New Orleans on Thursday. With Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. still battling it out for the nomination, Louisiana's primary - along with a dozen other states in the next three weeks - suddenly has taken on new importance. Obama last week launched a statewide ad blitz in the Louisiana, a state Clinton appears to have all-but conceded. While she has raised more money in Louisiana than all other candidates, including Republicans, she has little campaign organization to speak of. Obama has shown unexpected strength in the South. He won the South Carolina primary by a wide margin and also prevailed in Georgia and Alabama in primaries yesterday.
Obama's victories draw more voter groups as Democrats waver
I noticed that she had fewer wrinkles in her face last night. I commend her make-up artist. I want to point out how horrible a women candidate she is. She stuck by Bill when most women would not have. She played the game last night with the make-up to look and appear not tired to more of a younger voter. More importantly was the situation where the media is now favoring Obama. Shame on them. I understand the media loves a good story. Right now Obama sells. I will say this, Mr. Obama will lead, but hopefully by the way he runs his campaign, not like the old vanguard of the the American Political Process. I think it is important to have strong candidates that can take America out of the old garbage politics to, perhaps, the world stage of respectable debate. Mr. Obama is a leader that can lead with discussion.
NIU Gunman's Contradictions Baffle Police
MADISON, Wis. (CBS) ― Steven Kazmierczak had the look of a boyish graduate student - except for the disturbing tattoos that covered his arms. Professors and students knew him as a bright, helpful scholar, but his past included a stint in a mental health center.Many saw him as happy and stable, but he had developed a recent interest in guns and was involved in a troubled - possibly abusive - on-again, off-again relationship.What people initially told police about the Northern Illinois University shooter didn't add up, and now investigators are searching for answers to what triggered Thursday's bloody attack, in which five students were killed and several more injured before Kazmierczak committed suicide.While searching for a motive, authorities questioned family and friends and tried to determine whether he had recently broken up with his longtime girlfriend.One person who knew the couple, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, said the couple's relationship was on-again, off-again and "really rocky." Kazmierczak was controlling, she said."He was abusive, had a temper," she said.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Jim Jones Engaged? Dame Dash's New Baby...
He now is saying that he wants to play Mike Tyson in a movie about the boxer's life.
RANDOM QUOTES
Bun B on not wanting to be a dream smasher (Read the whole AllHipHop interview here):
“I can't tell a n***a not to chase his dream; I don't want to seem like a dream crusher. But I hate to see these n***s with no sense of reality."
Lil Wayne on why he won't beef with 50 Cent (MTV):
“That n***a's crazy. I ain't f**king with 50. He's too high up there. That's my n***a, though. I respect that my name even came out the homie's mouth.
Rangers Notebook: The Ian Kinsler Show
The Rangers probably didn't want to go above $20 million. The Kinsler camp probably wanted a guarantee closer to the $27 million that Brandon Phillips got from Cincinnati for four years. In the end, though, they reached a compromise that represents neither a "win" for Daniels/Levine or for Franklin. What it does represent is a win for Kinsler and for partnership. Being willing to work as a legitimate partner will help the Rangers in negotiations with free agents more than any recruiting pitches or video presentations. And for Ian, the degree of financial security offered to his family by that freshly minted contract extension appears to be just right: "I was not trying to set the bar and make the most money for a second baseman. I'm just here to play the game and be treated fairly.
Phillies looking for this year's pitching longshot
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Steve Noworyta's face is not one you probably know, but it is a baseball face. Tight brown hair cut close to the scalp, a neatly trimmed mustache, a jaw that looks built to take a punch. From a distance, he looks like Tom Selleck in "Mr. Baseball," except for the past 9 1/2 years, Noworyta has been Mr. Minor Leagues for the Phillies, monitoring the organization's prospects from the front line. He has seen Ryan Howard in Batavia, Jimmy Rollins in Clearwater, Cole Hamels in Lakewood. And last March, when most of the world didn't know Kyle Kendrick from Jimi Hendrix, Noworyta was waiting for his moment to shine. "We knew he was close," said Noworyta, the Phillies' director of minor leagues. A year later, Kendrick, 10-4 with a 3.87 ERA after a June call-up from Double A Reading, is penciled in as the Phillies' fourth starter.
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