http://www.isawnews.com news discussion and commentary Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:43:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP - Evan Turner rescued No. 6 Ohio State for the second straight day in the Big Ten tournament. Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13928/turner-leads-ohio-st-past-illinois-88-81-in-2ot-ap/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors will try to tack another leg on to the year-long U.S. stock rally, looking to next week's economic data and statement from the central bank for evidence the recovery is still on track. Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13926/data-fed-to-test-if-rally-has-legs/ Is the Federal Reserve forever blowing bubbles? Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13924/is-the-fed-blowing-bubbles/ The telltale shamrock The place we always went to for St. Patrick’s Day was Molly Malone’s.  It’s a hole-in-the-wall bar on Fairfax on the West Side, the kind of place that packs people in much too close to one another on Saturday nights when the live bands play.  In my twenties, ... http://www.isawnews.com/13919/reminiscing-about-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day-at-molly-malone%e2%80%99s-in-los-angeles/ Joking that a new “casual Friday” dress code had been instituted in the West Wing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs showed at the podium Friday wearing a Canadian hockey jersey to make good on a bet he had made with his counterpart in Canada. Gibbs and Dimitri Soudas, spokesman for ... http://www.isawnews.com/13916/gibbs-sports-canadian-hockey-jersey-for-briefing/ Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday about the state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, demanding that Israel take immediate steps to show it is interested in renewing efforts to achieve a Middle East peace agreement. Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13915/clinton-rebukes-israel-over-east-jerusalem-plans-cites-damage-to-bilateral-ties/ Blog Guy, I’m a big tennis fan, and you never do anything about tennis except show players making goofy faces. Hey, I don’t force them to look goofy. I just use what I get. But let me do something nice to make it up to you. Oh. That’s damned decent, I must ... http://www.isawnews.com/13912/a-little-bit-of-boris%e2%80%a6/ AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13911/mom-says-daughter-held-in-ireland-in-terror-plot-ap/ Apple began accepting pre-orders for the iPad tablet this morning, around three weeks ahead of the April 3 launch date in the U.S.  Only the WiFi version of the tablet will be available on that date, with the 3G version shipping later in April. Apple is limiting pre-orders to two devices ... http://www.isawnews.com/13907/ipad-pre-orders-begin-and-so-does-the-speculation/ President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. Read full article... http://www.isawnews.com/13906/senators-resist-obama-over-projects-in-health-bill-ap/