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With three weeks to go, and absentee voting well underway, both campaigns -- and outside group -- have been asking voters and the media to look at the possibility of election fraud. At McCain rallies, supporters intone "ACORN" and "FBI! FBI!" with increasing regularity. And, it's true, ACORN -- a predominately left-leaning group with (limited) ties to Obama -- has a particularly spotty record when it comes to voter registration. The problem is that attempting to register voters improperly or fraudulently (under names like "Mickey Mouse" or maybe a local restaurant) only seems to be beneficial to Democrats. To be actually beneficial, Mickey Mouse (or the restaurant) would have to show up to vote. In the mean time, paranoia about bad registrations threatens to impede the flow of legitimate new registrants -- and that flow is really more like a tidal wave. So while I'm all hats off to the McCain campaign's "Open and Honest Elections Committee" for, among other things, "reach[ing] out to Rep. John Conyers, Chair ...
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Barack Obama has opened a dramatic 14-point lead over John McCain in a new opinion poll, amid evidence that the McCain camp's character attacks are doing more to harm the Republican senator than his opponent.
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Niall Stanage discovers that it will take more than $5 to get a picture of Barack Obama in a Mickey Mouse hat. Also from the Observer, Lydia DePillis reports on the debacle of Columbia University's third party debate, which never actually happened. read more »
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The Football Association is reviewing the comments Joe Kinnear made after Newcastle United's 2-1 Premier League defeat against Fulham on Sunday. Kinnear branded official Martin Atkinson a "Mickey Mouse referee" for failing to spot a foul by Fulham's Andy Johnson on Claudio Cacapa in the build-up to the decisive penalty.
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Newcastle manage to discover whether he is in danger of facing a misconduct charge for "Mickey Mouse" comment.
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English football is often the land that sanity forgot and today it really has lost its marbles.
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M-I-C. Talk to Goofy on your cellphone. K-E-Y. Why? Good question.
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Newcastle interim manager vows to call referee Martin Atkinson in person to say sorry for "inappropriate" comment.
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The famous cartoon star Mickey Mouse was first drawn by Walt Disney on November 18, 1928. Since then, the character has appeared in over 120 movies and Disney won an Oscar for him in 1932.
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FA charge Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear with improper conduct after comments made towards referee Martin Atkinson.
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Maryland spoils Gary Parrish's wish to see Gonzaga play Michigan State at Disney World. He'll still get to see Vols vs. Hoyas and, heck, maybe the Terps knock off the Zags.
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A MOUSE in the dialysis room and woodlice in the operating theatre are just some of the disturbing cases found by pest controllers in Waterford Regional Hospital.
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The Gyration Air Mouse Do you suffer from hand and arm pain while mousing? Many factors can be blamed, from poor posture to a badly designed ergonomic environment. Unfortunately, simply adjusting one's seat or desk height doesn't always solve the problem (and sometimes you can't adjust either ...
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British skipper Ian Walker leads his crew into pole for first time in race.
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Should cartoon characters get FOI request answers?
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AN ELUSIVE mouse closed a hospital breast-feeding room for three weeks, health officials said yesterday.
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You might balk at the $130 price tag, but this time more actually means better. The Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro combo puts two of our favorite products together in one package: the Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Keyboard and the Logitech MX 1100 Cordless laser mouse. Both products received very ...
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US scientists say they have erased memories from mice, raising hopes the technique could help humans overcome traumatic events.
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Scientists have grown new prostate glands in mice, in another advance for stem cell technology.
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Chief William H. Parker plans to disband the Gangster Squad, but grants a reprieve after an informant gets the goods on Mickey Cohen and his trip with the husband of a columnist. Florabel Muir had the nerve to ask, "What does a Gangster Squad do?"
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While slicing up some cheese for his children, a father in western P.E.I. recently uncovered a mouse in the middle of the block.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The city wants to make sure rats have no place to hide, at least online....
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The Gangster Squad springs a trap set years ago for the mobster, but 'Freddie the Thief' looks for revenge far from the courtroom in the killing of his son, 'the Enforcer.' When the coroner put Jack Whalen's body on a slab, it measured 72 inches, just 6 feet. For years, people had described him as 6-foot-2 or 6-4. But "the Enforcer" was smaller in death than life.
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(Credit: Weston Boege) How do you create the world's largest mouse? Here's how. Designer Weston Boege's Glide Keyboard is both a mouse and keyboard. Resting on low-friction pads, you simply slide the keyboard around your desk, just like an optical rodent. If that little workout is a ...
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Scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and now say it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
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The frozen cell of a mouse which died 16 years ago has enabled Japanese scientists to clone mice in good health, they say, and may eventually lead to work on cloning and restoring extinct species such as the mammoth.
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Veterans of past wars have long found companionship over beer and conversation at their local veterans hall. But many of those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan seek that companionship elsewhere — online.
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This holiday season, more than ever, online shoppers need to pay attention to the fine print on the screen, and stay alert for deals that are changing daily and sometimes hourly.
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Why is the octogenarian mouse so popular?
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Why the world famous rodent remains so popular
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A mouse experiment has raised hopes of halting some of the effects of Down's syndrome before birth.
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