Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (D), a Senate fixture who switched parties a year ago, lost his bid for reelection Tuesday, while in Kentucky, ophthalmologist Rand Paul rode the anti-Washington energy of Air Jordan Sale the “tea party” movement to an easy victory.
On a busy primary election night that put the political establishments of both parties on the defensive, Specter fell to two-term Rep. Joe Sestak. Elected five times to the Senate as a Republican, Specter had the support of President Obama and the political leadership of his state, but he ran into rank-and-file resistance inside his new party and became the third member of Congress to lose his own party’s support in the past two weeks.
In the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, Paul, a political novice and a son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), stormed past Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who had the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and much of the Bluegrass State’s political establishment. With almost all of the vote counted, Paul had 59 percent, a sign of the power of his and the tea party’s small-government message within the GOP.
Although poles apart ideologically, Sestak and Paul both struck anti-Washington themes in their victory Cheap Jordan Shoes statements Tuesday night.
“This is what democracy looks like,” Sestak said to a crowd of cheering supporters. “A win for the people, over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington, D.C.”
“I have a message, a message from the tea party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words,” Paul said at his victory rally. “We’ve come to take our government back.”
Elsewhere, Democrats held the seat of the late congressman John P. Murtha (D) in a special House election with clear implications for the November midterms. Republicans had hoped to pick off the culturally conservative district to demonstrate their momentum this year. But Democrat Mark Critz, a former aide to Murtha, defeated Republican businessman Tim Burns with relative ease.
In Arkansas, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, another embattled incumbent who had Obama’s support, fell short in her bid to win renomination outright and now faces Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in a potentially perilous June 8 runoff.
Tuesday’s results were the most powerful indicator to date of the voter anger and dissatisfaction that has shaped the political climate all year.
Democrats remain on the defensive heading toward November, in large part because of divisions over Obama’s agenda, the high jobless rate and the size of the federal budget deficit. The Basketball Shoes Kentucky race underscored the energy of anti-government conservatives who intend to shake up the capital. But the results in Pennsylvania’s special House election will raise questions about whether Republicans will be able to take control of the House in November, as many of their leaders have predicted.
The Senate primary in Pennsylvania drew more attention than any other race Tuesday because of Specter’s longevity in office and his surprise decision to switch to the Democrats last year.
The senator provided the party with a critical vote needed to break GOP filibusters against health-care legislation. In return, Obama strongly endorsed him in the primary, as did Pennsylvania’s Democratic establishment, led by Gov. Edward G. Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
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Warner Bros. and New Line dreamed up a winning formula as “A Nightmare on Elm Street” won first place at the box office this weekend. The villainous Freddy Krueger’s first big-screen outing in Cheap Jordan Shoes seven years carved an impressive $32.2 million chunk out of moviegoers’ wallets, securing victory by a margin of over $20 million past the next closest competitor.
With Jackie Earle Haley starring as the scarred-and-clawed horror icon, “Nightmare” earned approximately $9,665 per screen over 3,332 locations this past weekend and $1.6 million from midnight showings on Thursday alone. As a result, the movie made back nearly the entirety of its reported $35 million production budget. Whether or not the movie can repeat that success in the coming weeks is another story, as reviews for “Nightmare” have been less than dreamy with a 14 percent fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com.
But “Elm Street” wasn’t the true critical nightmare of the weekend, a distinction that belonged to Summit Entertainment’s “Furry Vengeance.” The family comedy stars Brendan Fraser as a real estate developer seeking to convert a forest into a major housing development, prompting the titular revenge scheme from the forest’s furry inhabitants. Fraser’s latest bowed in fifth place with only $6.5 million in 2,997 locations. Adding insult to injury is the Air Jordan 3 film’s 2 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the review aggregator’s all-time lowest rankings.
Holdovers “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Date Night” and “The Back-Up Plan” finished the weekend in second, third and fourth places respectively.
Comic book adaptations “The Losers” and “Kick-Ass” dropped off by 36.2 percent and 52.4 percent respectively, but Air Jordan 4 comics flourished on an international level as the foreign release of “Iron Man 2″ earned the Marvel Studios sequel a reported $100.2 million overseas.
There’s lots of high drama surrounding Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue.”
The former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor’s book hits store shelves Tuesday, but it’s already a best-seller.
Portions have leaked, and they’re stirring controversy.
What type of ED Female Leggings chapter will the book write for her political career?
She’s the latest in a long line of potential presidential hopefuls to pen a book, and Newsweek Senior Editor Michael Hirsh says it could show she, too, is gearing up for a run at the White House.
“I think very much so,” Hirsh told “Early Show Saturday Edition” substitute co-anchor Debye Turner Bell. “There’s a long and storied history there. And Palin has put her own particular stamp on this tradition. Whether it’s going to get her what she wants, which is apparently a national stage leading into (the next presidential race in) 2012, is another question.
“There are a couple things that were somewhat disturbing about Palin that appear in this book,” Hirsh observed, “(including) this streak of vindictiveness toward her political enemies, which we see now include many in the (Arizona Senator and former GOP standard bearer John) McCain camp.
“Basically, the book confirms all of the ED Hardy caps stories that have been out there for many months about the dissensions within the McCain camp, as well as some of the questions about her mastery of the issues. We see that in this book as well.
“So, ‘Going Rogue’ is probably an appropriate title,” Hirsch said. “Whether it’s the kind of president America wants, assuming that Sarah Palin is gearing up for a presidential run, is another question.”
Bell pointed to a line in the book in which Palin says, “Before my plane even touched down in Anchorage, shocking character assassinations of those I love had begun.”
Hirsh says that might have been a reflection of what Bell referred to as Palin’s possible “naivete.”
“Again,” Hirsh said, “she seems to be mainly out for repudiation of her critics here, and what you see is a lot of self-involvement. And, again, is that the kind of thing that the American people want in a presidential candidate, with all these other issues pressing?”
Bell spotlighted another quote from the book, in which Palin, referring to reports she and Todd Palin would seek a divorce, writes, “Dang. I thought, ‘Divorce Todd? Have you seen Todd?’”
Asked whether that sounds “presidential,” Hirsh responded, “There have been those stories out there and, of course, she abruptly quit the Alaska governorship, and the stories swirled that she was having personal problems with MLB San Diego Padres Jerseys Todd Palin. But they’re still together. And, look, it’s also what people like about her: She’s very blunt. Whether that makes her a presidential candidate, again, is really something that people are going to have to decide as the book sells.”
Does Hirsh think “Going Rogue” will help or hinder any presidential aspirations Palin might have?
“I think it’s going to help her with her base, her relatively narrow Republican base,” Hirsh replied. “I don’t know if it helps at all with what she would need to actually be elected president, which is to appeal to something beyond the conservative base of the Republican Party.”
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EDINBURGH — Come April a small team of experts from the Glasgow School of Art and the government heritage entity Historic Scotland will fly to Ugg Sundance Limited Edition 30th Anniversary outh Dakota at the behest of an organization called CyArk and the United States National Park Service. They will make laser scans and computer models of Mount Rushmore.
Aside from the wee bit of Scottish blood in three of the four enshrined presidents (Lincoln’s the odd man out, in case you’re wondering), there is of course nothing whatsoever Scottish about this most all-American of sites. But cultural expertise transcends national borders. The Scottish team of four or five will spend a few days setting up and moving around their various scanners to capture all of Mount Rushmore’s nooks and crannies, collecting billions of Ugg Mini its of digital information, which will then be brought back here, to be crunched and sorted out by computer.
What results should be the most complete and precise three-dimensional models ever of the site, millions of times more detailed and accurate than the best photographs or films, precise down to the tiniest fraction of a millimeter.
In an era of computer animation, with gamers navigating virtual universes at the click of a mouse, making laser scans of old monuments may not sound special, but the Scottish team has achieved some unprecedented levels of sophistication with their models. Through scanning, the experts can conjure up what objects looked like ages ago, in effect turning the clock back on ancient sites. They can simulate the effects of climate change, urban encroachment or other natural or man-made disasters on those same sites, peering into the future.
Given a proposal for a new building in a city like Edinburgh, they can also create virtual realities, almost microscopically accurate, so viewers might see what the building looks like from all angles in the place where it’s intended to go, including the shadows it might cast at different times of day.
The technology isn’t brand new or unique to Scotland, but the Glasgow team is on its cultural front line. Douglas Pritchard, a Canadian-born architect by training, is the wizard behind the Digital Design Studio at the art school. He heads the Scottish laser expedition with Ugg Sunburst Tall avid Mitchell, director of Historic Scotland’s Technical Conservation Group. Describing how fast laser modeling has progressed and how far it might soon go, Mr. Pritchard said, “We’re no longer a million miles from the ‘Star Trek’ holodeck.”
He was perfectly serious.
The cultural implications of the technology are big, as are the political ones for Scotland, which, via the country’s culture minister, Michael Russell, has latched on to the laser team’s work.
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