Deals of the Hour

Trying to find out what's the deal with the world, tracking what's on sale and who's talking about it on Twitter. Update hourly.

Deals of the Hour / June 12, 2010, 12:10 am

Huckabee rips Mitch Daniels for calling "truce" on social issues

Two things here. First, obviously, Huck wants to position himself as a social-con champion in case he gets the itch to run next year. If he can do that by torpedoing a potential dark-horse rival , particularly one from ... (Source: Hotair.com 2010-06-12T06:53:44Z)

Quotables from top MS lawyer: Immigration, Yahoo, Net neutrality, charity

Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president for legal and corporate affairs, sat down to dinner with the Seattle press corps Thursday to talk about Washington state policy and politics, and ... (Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer 2010-06-12T06:39:25Z)

Spirit Airlines and pilots keep talking

Negotiators for Spirit Airlines and its pilots found something to talk about early Saturday, with the pilots letting a midnight strike deadline come and go without walking out. "Proposal exchange continues to make slow ... (Source: Associated Press 2010-06-12T06:46:35Z)

Christine M. Flowers: Political teacher gets an F, as in fired

FOR A GOOD part of the '90s, I was a language teacher at several Philadelphia-area private schools. One was secular, one Quaker, and one was a Catholic girls school similar to Notre Dame Academy, the subject of a ... (Source: Philadelphia Daily News 2010-06-12T07:08:03Z)

Heavy rains send Arkansas rivers over banks, killing at least 16 campers

A van and motor homes were damaged by flash flooding at a campground in western Arkansas. Floodwaters moved with such force overnight that they peeled asphalt off roads. CADDO GAP, Ark. — Floodwaters that rose as ... (Source: Denver Post 2010-06-12T07:00:54Z)

Cleveland Indians' Carlos Santana brings some much-needed excitement: Terry Pluto

This is the Carlos Santana whom Tribe fans have been hearing about for at least two years, the Carlos Santana who also is a bat for hire, a hitter on fire. Savor some of these statistics from Class AAA Columbus: .312 ... (Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer 2010-06-12T06:17:57Z)

Why can't Barack Obama Govern?

Short answer: Because he doesn't know how. Hillary was right. Nor do the majority of people he has named to head the several agencies. I use to to wonder if Obama was some super deep-cover socialist evil genius, or ... (Source: RedState 2010-06-12T07:00:54Z)

S.F. office tower sold for $333 million

A San Francisco office tower occupied by Wells Fargo & Co. has sold for $333 million to a group of South Korean investors in the city's biggest commercial property deal in three years. Korean Teachers' Credit Union and ... (Source: San Francisco Gate 2010-06-12T07:08:03Z)

Rockies 5, Blue Jays 3, 6 innings

DP—Toronto 1, Colorado 1. LOB—Toronto 6, Colorado 5. 2B—V.Wells (23), Spilborghs 2 (6), Barmes (12). 3B—Overbay (2). HR—A.Hill (9), C.Gonzalez (9), Spilborghs (4). SB—V.Wells (3), Tulowitzki (7). SF—S.Smith ... (Source: Denver Post 2010-06-12T05:42:09Z)

Goat spears Rep. Weiner; Bush's inaugural address on Facebook; British Lords, Alvin ...

Thursday was a b-a-a-a-a-d day for Rep. Anthony Weiner. It's not every day that a Capitol Hill news conference on trade policy ends in bloodshed, but this one was different. A pair of Angoras really got the New York ... (Source: Washington Post 2010-06-12T06:32:16Z)

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