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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on a Tuesday night's Fox News broadcast that she has considered a run for the Senate , and still is. "I've considered it because people have requested me considering it, but I'm still waiting to see what the lineup will be," she said, to Fox News host Sean Hannity, on "The Sean Hannity Show." She also gave a hint at the seriousness of her consideration.

Flooding has triggered mudslides in a western region of China, and emergency responders estimate about 40 have been buried. The mudslides also wrecked a memorial that was erected to mark the nation's devastating earthquake in 2008, The Associated Press reported.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston bombing case, is due for arraignment Wednesday to face 30 charges related to the death of four people and the wounding of 260. The courtroom is expected to be packed, and officials have already prepped an overflow room to accommodate the masses.

Eliot Spitzer just won't leave us alone. Five years after the Manhattan tabloids went into a frenzy when a call-girl ring identified the man who was the governor as "Client No. 9," he wants to get back into politics. He's a candidate for comptroller of New York City, the officer who keeps the books and rides herd on Gotham's enormous investment portfolio.

The elites , and those pretending to be elite , love to sneer at the "big box" retail stores as much as the public loves to shop at them. The D.C. Council, not made up of elites, to be sure, is nevertheless expected to give final approval Wednesday to imposing a discriminatory $12.50 an hour "living wage" on large businesses, such as Wal-Mart. Other employers would still pay the $8.25 minimum.

Nothing confuses liberals more than discovering that the tide of progress has gone out, leaving them high, dry and naked. President Obama has been beached by his backing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. What once seemed so progressive and hip now isn't cool at all, at home or abroad, and the Egyptian generals took their cue from the millions of protesters in Cairo.

The 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya mushroomed into a revolution, with thousands of people taking to the streets. In Egypt, the economy was faltering and people had long felt disenfranchised. With high unemployment, skyrocketing food prices and gasoline shortages prevalent, poverty plagued the country. Anger soon unleashed people eager for change.

Kenneth Minogue, a professor emeritus at the London School of Economics, passed away on June 28. The New Zealand-born and Australian-educated academic was a conservative intellectual giant, an inspirational figure who championed classical liberalism, small government, free markets and more individual rights and freedoms at every turn.

Gone is Ann Richards, the leathery, white-haired feminist champion whose life was celebrated in a Broadway play, "Ann," starring Holland Taylor. The play is closing prematurely because of insufficient demand for white-haired feminist champions. Never mind that for now. We've got a second Ann, it would appear. She is a fellow Texan, to boot: State Sen.

Let's all burn our "Obamacare" cards. Last week, the Obama administration was forced by industry pressure to delay the health care law's employer mandate. It's a sign the time is ripe for Americans to rise up and exert popular pressure to delay the law's other major mandate: the one on them as individuals.

Remember when President Obama was flying around the country warning everyone that the budget-cutting sequestration would destroy life as we know it America? The president was hyperbolic about it, preaching doom and gloom across the land if we didn't turn away from the disastrous path Congress put us on. Mr.

I used to pack a smoke hood in my carry-on luggage. I knew that most passengers survived plane crashes on impact but that many died before they could escape the toxic smoking fuselage. I didn't pack a smoke hood for the trip that ended with a safe landing at San Francisco International Airport on Friday.

I retired this month after 40 years of medical endeavors. There is little that can compare to the joy of being able to intervene in the lives of fellow human beings and in the vast majority of cases, save or improve those lives.

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) , More than 20 people are hospitalized in North Carolina after the second-story deck on condominium in Ocean Isle Beach collapsed onto a concrete patio below. WECT reports that 21 people were transported to hospitals Tuesday evening after the structure gave way.

Organizers said Tuesday that they were putting the final touches on a "character-development" national program for boys, in the most direct challenge to date to the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to allow openly gay boys to participate in Scouting.