Politico: President George W. Bush had some advice for his successor Monday, warning Barack Obama against feeling any self pity about the “burdens of the office.†“The phrase ‘burdens of the office’ is overstated,†Bush said during the last scheduled news conference of his presidency. “Oh, the burdens, you know. Why did the financial collapse [...]
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My Fox Philly: PHILADELPHIA — Police in Northeast Philadelphia are on the hunt for a thief who took advantage of nuns and they’re asking for your help. It happened at approximately 4 a.m. Saturday on the 9800 block of Frankford Avenue in the Holmesburg section of the city. Investigators said a man entered the grounds [...]
Related Video Here NEW YORK (AP) – Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood has had the best movie opening of his career. “Gran Torino” revved up the winter box office with $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of wide release. It is Eastwood’s best opening ever, topping the $18 million his “Space Cowboys” made [...]
Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, right, arrives at a bomb scene to report for Pajamas TV, after a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Jerusalem Post: Palestinians continued to fire rockets at Israel on the 16th [...]
Haaretz: A number of Israel Defense Forces soldiers came under cross-border fire on Sunday while working on the fence between Israel and Syria. There were no casualties in the incident, but the bullets struck a few vehicles on site. “In the afternoon, there were a number of bullets fired from Syria at an Israeli army [...]
Times Online: THE mastermind of Hamas’s long-range rocket attacks on Israel was killed yesterday in an airstrike, according to Israeli military sources. Amir Mansi, an engineer who commanded cells responsible for firing Grad rockets supplied by Iran, died after coming under attack from a helicopter. The Israeli army said he had been trying to fire [...]
I’m an American. This has always been my favorite label, but of late even that has seemed to mean less and less. Being called an American used to carry with it a certain pride and esprit de corps that now apparently is dated and passe. How else can one explain the rash of America-haters in [...]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel’s military inched toward Gaza’s population centers. A top Israeli defense official said Hamas has been badly hurt by the offensive in Gazaâ€â€especialy by the deaths of senior [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship. Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they [...]
Okay. This was probably the most disturbing article I’ve read in a long time. This article, meant to be supportive of Obama and his economic plan, just a few paragraphs into it, admits that the economy is only bad because people are scared because they’ve been told it’s bad, and therefor don’t open or expand [...]
WAPO: The Iranian businessman was looking for high-quality American electronics, but he had to act stealthily: The special parts he coveted were denied to Iranians, especially those seeking to make roadside bombs to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. With a few e-mails, the problem was solved. A friendly Malaysian importer would buy the parts from [...]
