News

In Quotes
Tory MP Steven Fletcher on his new trading cards: "I do a lot of speaking at schools and so on. But I've found the grandparents like the cards and the parents like the cards,"

• Suspended RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George: "I guess I'm collateral damage, but this is where I sit. And what am I focused on? Quite honestly, at getting my life back in order, rebuilding my reputation, working on my career and getting back my sense of self and place."

• Fred Thompson's (1995) letter to Bill Clinton: "I had a fight with my staff as to whether I should smoke the cigar or keep it as a memento from the President. We compromised. I am keeping the tube it came in." [PDF]

• Helen Thomas to White House spokesman Tony Snow: "You're not speaking English, really." [Video]

• Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour: "That’s right. I got my trophy wife the first time,"

Headline Of The Weak
Canadian ex-prime minister must pay arms dealer [AFP] [The 'Silly War']

Videos
George Galloway debates Christopher Hitchens [Part 1, 2]
• How to avoid answering questions by Alberto Gonzales. [Analysis]
• ABC's on-air debacle: Merry Miller interviews Holly Hunter.
• SNL's Darrell Hammond impersonates CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
• David Letterman on 'The most trusted name in news.'

Straight From The Liberal Party Playbook
Democrats as victims?

Headlines / Columns
Top general vows to tell it like it is
• Tory brand will be tested in Montreal byelection
• Paul Martin's new mission [Roy MacGregor]
• Migration west adds $2-billion to national economy
• Convicted murderer Colin Thatcher writing book
• Liberal MP Owen officially resigns
• Green Party leader sticks by Agent Orange comments
• Green party woos former Nunavut MP
• Canada can do democratic development better [Jeffrey Simpson]

Provincial
McGuinty picks Phillips to chip citizenship ball out of political rough [Murray Campbell]
• AECL mulls N.B. nuclear plant
• N.L. police say no charges for former politician accused of double-billing
• Trash clean-up has striking Vancouver workers peeved

International
Report: U.S. plans big arms sale to Saudi Arabia
• U.S. officials may subpoena filmmaker Michael Moore
• YouTube, take two: Few GOP candidates commit to debate
• ABC expanding its definition of what is news [Tribune/Rosenthal]
• New York City Hall installs world's largest plasma screen
• Jesuits say take word of God to Second Life

In Pictures
The strangest sights in Google Earth.

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Photo by Annie Leibovitz: Louis Vuitton ad featuring Mikhail S. Gorbachev.