| Mickey Kaus
CNN most likely won't make any dramatic strides until the U.S. acts to have a Democrat living in the White House. How will that work? Doesn't being in opposition tend to help ideological media institutions like FOX? [Via TVNewswer, Romenesko] ... Down the Enemies List: Meanwhile, BMW designer Chris Bangle, the Jon Klein of the auto industry, tells a Britain's Independent: What makes the car alive is for it to be responsive, animate. ... There has to be more of a message than 'I'm beautiful, I'm powerful, I'm sexy'. Bangle saying there's more to car design than beauty is the equivalent of Klein saying there's more to TV than ratings. They better hope so! [Where's Burkle?-ed He comes up here. ... ] 9:32 P.M. Edward Luttwak notes that 6,821 Americans ...died to conquer the eight square miles of Iwo Jima.
Hornets' derby debacle
WATFORD's crisis of results at Vicarage Road plunged to new depths this afternoon (Saturday) after they crashed to a 4-2 defeat against Queens Park Rangers. The game was effectively over by half-time after the counter-attacking visitors had capitalised on some alarming defensive failings in the Hornets rearguard to race into a 3-0 lead courtesy of two Martin Rowlands goals, including a penalty, and a Damion Stewart header. A Damien Francis header at the start of the second-half, which had suspicions of an own goal about it, gave the Hornets hope, but Akos Buzsaky ensured it would be seven games without a win at Vicarage Road for the home side before Dan Shittu netted a late consolation. .
In L.A., Obama courts homeowners
Ric Francis / Associated Press Illinois Sen. Barack Obama prepares to meet with San Fernando Valley residents, from left, Gustavo Lizarde, Mimi Vitello, Carlos Garcia and Kerry Bryant on Wednesday in the backyard of Vitello's Van Nuys home. Obama outlined a $10 billion program to help as many as 10 million hard-pressed homeowners, including 850,000 in California. .
Cleveland taking banks to court over crisis
A tire sits in front of a boarded up home in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday. The city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood is filled with homes for sale or on the auction block. The city is the epicenter of the nation's home foreclosure crisis.
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