Wednesday Link O Rama

By Paddy



Here's hoping for nothing but GOOD NEWS today. Fingers crossed.

Agreement may mean end of cable set-top boxes

Amnesty International condemns U.S., China in report

Bard's 'cursed' tomb is revamped

Washington Post: Obama Heads To Michigan Next WeekSen. Barack Obama will make a stop in Michigan next Monday, less than 48 hours after an expected ruling by the Democratic National Committee about the fate of the Wolverine State's delegation to the party convention in August.

Could Sen. Stevens and Young be indicted so close to elections?

Poll says Californians favor gay marriage, a 30-year first

Rare Elizabeth I portrait found

Politico: Straight Talk Express stalls in HollywoodWarren Beatty considers Sen. John McCain a pal. The presidential candidate has appeared in “The Wedding Crashers” as well as on TV’s “24.” And the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer raised over $100,000 for his campaign. Yet the presumptive Republican nominee doesn’t carry anywhere near the level of Hollywood support Democratic Sen. Barack Obama enjoys, and fundraising among showbiz types will be negligible, say most industry experts.

Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting

Bush's Iraq wrangles alarm lawmakers

Late in the Term, an Exodus of Senior Officials

LA Times: Child health care varies widely among statesOnly 46% of kids visit the doctor and dentist at least once a year in Idaho, but 75% of Massachusetts children do. Infant mortality rates are 2.5 times higher in the District of Columbia than in Maine. And South Carolina kids are 5.7 times as likely to wind up in the hospital for asthma as those in Vermont.