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The reporter for u>The Washington Stakeout waited with his videographer outside news show studios in D.C. Sunday, ready to ask three national leaders some pointed questions that the TV hosts had not. After appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped for questions91. The reporter, Sam Husseini, asked the governor if he […]

Wind sweeps the North American High Plains, drying up the scant rain water30×31. But there is water enough for short grasses to flourish, and over the ages they have fed the hardy buffalo, whose massive herds “darkened the plains32“. “[The High Plains is] almost wholly unfit for cultivation,” wrote Major Stephen H. Long in 1819, […]

On December 8, 2006, George W. Bush became one of several U.S. presidents to face an impeachment action, when Rep. Cynthia McKinney brought a resolution to the House floor1×19. Her impeachment resolution cited Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for cooking intelligence to support their policy of war against Iraq, […]

Clayton Hall, 14, was bringing the baseball bat for a game in Minneola, Kansas, on “Black Sunday”, April 14, 1935, when the dust storm hit61: “I just got in the middle of the road, … and all of a sudden, I couldn’t see. I thought, well I just got some dust in my eyes. I […]