Tommy Lee Jones for U.S. Senator from Texas

Tommy Lee Jones for U.S. Senator from Texas

When a party is as out of power to the extent that the Democrats are in Texas, it becomes rather desperate to find willing people to run for statewide office. Hence the idea of Partisan Gridlock to run actor Tommy Lee Jones for United States Senator from Texas.

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Stumbling into a sensitive situation in America's Southwest

I recently returned from a camping trip around four of the southwestern American states. Living above the 60th parallel in Yellowknife for the past five years, I had slowly built a colourful and romantic image of a perfectly sun-soaked Southwest with heavy doses of Mexican culture, stretched endlessly over the arid landscape.

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N.Zealand quake toll 92, hopes of survivors fade

and trigger a new disaster. Teams from quake-prone countries such as Japan and the United States sent in sniffer dogs and lowered microphones into rubble to probe for signs of life, two days after a 6.3 magnitude quake struck the tourist city of Christchurch.

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