William's World: July 2009

Walter Cronkite, former anchor of the CBS Evening News and the most trusted man in America, died tonight at the age of 92. To remember his legacy and the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, here are two clips of Cronkite's coverage of the historic day on July 20, 1969:

Evening Trio--7/17/09

Courier-Journal: N.C. superintendent named new Ky. education czar

Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Shares Rise On Fresh 'Microhoo' Deal Reports

Canadian Press: Singer-songwriter Diana Jones finds her family and her calling in Appalachians

Morning Trio--7/17/09

Bloomberg: Ritz, Marriott Hotels in Jakarta Hit by Bombings

BBC: The Pope breaks his wrist in fall

Albert Mohler: The Bishop Discovers Heresy?

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Evening Trio--7/16/09

Washington Post: CBO Chief Criticizes Democrats' Health Reform Measures

BBC: Religious row flares in Malaysia

Fox News: NASA Marks Apollo 11 Anniversary With Restored Video Footage

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Evening Trio--7/15/09

Voice of America: Iran Plane Crash Kills All 168 Aboard

WSAZ: Pike Convenience Store Robbed

Lexington Herald-Leader: Chris Bailey returns to WKYT for one night

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Evening Trio--7/14/09

Wall Street Journal: Hatch Questions Sotomayor on Gun Rights

Bloomberg News: Madoff Sent to N.C. Prison to Begin 150-Year Sentence

Broadcasting & Cable: Sinclair Eyes Chapter 11 (Sinclair Broadcast Group is the parent of Central Kentucky Fox affiliate WDKY.)

Monday, July 13, 2009

Evening Trio--7/13/09

AP: Graham predicts Sotomayor OK 'barring meltdown'

U.S. News & World Report: Obama Names Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General

Wall Street Journal: Microsoft To Offer Office Software On Web

Morning Trio--7/13/09

Christian Science Monitor: Bombers target Baghdad churches – again

AP: Honduras lifts curfew 2 weeks after military coup

CNET: Shuttle Endeavour grounded by stormy weather

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Evening Trio--7/12/09

Bloomberg News: Sotomayor’s Nomination Won’t Face Senate Filibuster

AP: Endeavour fueled for launch after lightning delay

Lexington Herald-Leader: WTVQ to broadcast some UK games

Morning Trio--7/12/09

Bloomberg News: China Bans Public Gatherings in Urumqi Amid Mourning

BBC: Metro bridge collapses in Delhi

AP: Reds lose Bruce to injury in 1st inning

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Evening Trio--7/11/09

CNET: Shuttle launch delayed to assess lightning strikes

Lexington Herald-Leader: City of Lynch struggles to pay its bills

Chicago Tribune: NBC sports chief believes USOC hurting Chicago's bid for 2016 Olympics

Morning Trio--7/11/09

BBC: Obama makes historic Ghana visit

AP: China raises death toll from ethnic riots to 184

MLB.com: Giants' Sanchez fires first no-no of '09

Friday, July 10, 2009

Evening Trio--7/10/09

Wall Street Journal: AIG Seeks Clearance to Release Bonuses

AP: Storms NASA's only worry for shuttle launch

PC Magazine: Microsoft Formally Launches Silverlight 3

Morning Trio--7/10/09

Voice of America: G8 to Focus on Africa, Food Security

Bloomberg News: General Motors Is Said to Finish Bankruptcy Asset Sale Today

PC World: PC Makers Less Upbeat Than Google About Chrome OS

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Evening Trio--7/9/09

Reuters: Iranian police fire in air to disperse protesters

Bloomberg News: Madoff Won’t Appeal 150-Year Sentence, Lawyer Says

Fox News: Pelosi Calls Resolution to Honor Michael Jackson Unnecessary

Morning Trio--7/9/09

AFP: Developing nations join G8 talks on poverty, climate

AP: South Korea on high alert for more cyber attacks

Business First of Louisville: Kentucky reports on health of financial institutions

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Evening Trio--7/8/09

Washington Post: Cyberattack Strikes Web Sites in U.S., South Korea

Fox News: Air Force Denies Request for Flyover at Christian Festival

The Tennessean: Lab tests point to murder-suicide in Steve McNair case

Morning Trio--7/8/09

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Voice of America: Obama in Italy as Global Economy Takes Center Stage at G8 Summit

WYMT: Cliff Hagan's fire ruled arson

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Evening Trio--7/7/09

Voice of America: US, Russia to Expand bilateral Trade

UPI: Minnesota's Franken sworn in as senator

Chicago Breaking News: New bidding war for Cubs?

Morning Trio--7/7/09

Voice of America: Chinese Crack Down on Xinjiang Protesters

Fox News: SC GOP Vote to Censure Sanford

CNET: CompuServe Classic laid to rest

Monday, July 6, 2009

Evening Trio--7/6/09

Voice of America: Obama, Medvedev Agree to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals

AP via Wall Street Journal: Authorities in South Carolina Search for Spree Killer

CBC: World's oldest Bible goes online

Morning Trio--7/6/09

BBC: Obama in Moscow for nuclear talks

Times of London (UK): 140 killed in western China after Uighur riots and security crackdown

Albert Mohler: A Christian Vision of Marriage and Family

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Evening Trio--7/5/09

Reuters via Washington Post: Ousted Honduran seeks to return after OAS move

AP via Fox News: Roger Federer Defeats Andy Roddick at Wimbledon to Win 15th Grand Slam Title

Box Office Mojo: "Ice Age," "Transformers" in tie for top-earning holiday weekend movie

Morning Trio--7/5/09

AP: SKorea says NKorean missiles can hit key targets

Bloomberg News: OAS Suspends Honduras Membership After Coup That Ousted Zelaya

WTVF (Nashville): Steve McNair Found Dead

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Evening Trio--7/4/09

BBC: Calm urged after N Korea missiles

L.A. Times: Statue of Liberty crown reopens for Fourth of July

Fox News: Author Aims to Solve 1969 Kentucky Murder Mystery, Wants Body Exhumed for DNA

Text of the Declaration of Independence

In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration By the Representatives of the United states of America, In general Congress assembled.

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislature.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic Insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress,
John Hancock, President.

Attest.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.