Blogs: Robert Ford (politician)

At a briefing today to discuss the administration's efforts to rescue the auto industry, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs took on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh—and every other critic “sitting in the cheap seats” –for criticizing ... Finally, he wrapped it up: “And then you should ask Mr. Limbaugh — I don't know what kind of car he drives, but I bet it's not an F-150.” The F-150 truck, we should note, is made by Ford, which didn't get federal rescue funds. ...

None of these are logical heirs to the throne abandoned by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone. They are certainly not heirs to the throne vacated by Jet Li and Jackie Chan. They may not even be legitimate heirs to the ... The only other candidates for this role would seem to be Robert Duvall's upcoming turn as a crusty old varmint in "Get Low" and Ben Affleck's big-screen comeback in "The Town." Critics also might start banging the drum for the ...

It was initiated by several people, including Polish politician Józef Retinger, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, who proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the ... U.S. State Department number two James Steinberg; U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; World Bank president Robert Zoellick; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso; Queen Sofia of Spain; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. ...

1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician 1940 - Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor 1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer 1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician 1945 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist ... 1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete 1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers) 1969 - Simon Baker, Australian actor 1969 - Errol Stewart, Former South Afrivan cricketer and lawyer ...

A ZANU-PF statement said she is survived by three children: Leo Mugabe, a former lawmaker, Robert Zhuwawo and his brother Patrick, who is a ZANU-PF member of parliament for Manyame constituency, Mashonaland West. The 76-year-old former politician, Sabina, was the closest to Mugabe of his three surviving siblings and her death will come as a major blow to the president, who is known to have few close friends. A former seamstress with little formal education, ...

Believing that bankers and financiers were part of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy (something many non-Masonic conspiracy theorists who are against Freemasonry believe today), Ford's thoughts and activities were nearly totally orchestrated by one of his lieutenants and it is ... In 2007, the Grand Lodge of Maine and other charitable (non-Masonic) groups were shocked and dismayed to find that their member and a “model citizen” Robert Libby had embezzled more than $430000. ...