WSJ: President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred Democrats and the media have the housing story wrong. By KARL ROVE Mythmaking is in full swing as the Bush administration prepares to leave town. Among the more prominent is the assertion that the housing meltdown resulted from unbridled capitalism under a president opposed to [...]
FOX NEWS: NEW YORK  Prosecutors said Thursday that investigators found 100 signed checks worth $173 million in Bernard Madoff’s office desk that he was ready to send out to his closest family and friends at the time of his arrest last month. The detail was provided in a court filing Thursday as prosecutors argued [...]
Space.com: Mystery Roar Detected From Faraway Space By Andrea Thompson LONG BEACH, Calif.  Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it. Of [...]
The Slate: On the bright side, the new reality show about the Department of Homeland Security is not a game show. Though the world of 2009 is, as the existence of this program confirms, an absurd place, there are still some limits. For now we can only daydream about a Survivor-style competition in which civilians [...]
USA Today: N.Y. man demands estranged wife pay him for kidney GARDEN CITY, N.Y.  A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her, although he says he’ll settle for $1.5 million in compensation. Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau [...]
Mookie’s so insignificant anymore all that’s left for him is to strap on a suicide vest … and have it go off before he leaves the house. He could feed a medium-size village for a week. Once-Powerful Shiite Cleric Calls For Retaliation Over U.S. Role In Gaza Confilct Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday urged [...]
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, arguing that too many Americans who rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air channels won’t be ready. In a letter to key lawmakers Thursday, Obama transition team co-chair John Podesta noted that the [...]
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FOX: High-Profile Doctor in Gaza Called an ‘Apologist for Hamas’ By Jennifer Lawinski A high-profile Norwegian doctor who has said the September 11 terrorists were justified in their attack is now treating patients in Gaza and is being accused of presenting “hard-core propaganda” to TV interviewers in his telling of the conflict between Hamas and [...]
FOX: Obama Calls for ‘Dramatic Action’ to Jolt Economy Out of Recession President-elect says the U.S. recession could “linger for years” unless Congress acts to pump unprecedented sums from Washington into the U.S. economy. President-elect Barack Obama, facing a more than $1 trillion budget deficit, made his strongest pitch yet Thursday for Congress to pass [...]
The OC Register: Retired Marine regrets having to stab, kill pit bull Police say man was within his rights to kill dog attacking his wife. By ERIC CARPENTER ANAHEIM – A retired Marine stabbed a pit bull to death Tuesday night as the dog attacked his wife and the two dogs they were walking, police [...]
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism PARIS – The head of Europe’s biggest economy said Thursday that world leaders should be looking at the massive U.S. deficit and other economic imbalances, not just problems caused by financial markets, as they debate a new global order. Speaking at a conference in Paris on the future [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  The U.S. Navy says one of its commanders will lead a new international force to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia. More than 20 nations are expected to take part in the mission once it is fully under way later this month. The announcement Thursday by U.S. Navy officials [...]
FOX: Illinois Panel Report Recommends Impeachment for Blagojevich A draft report from the Illinois House committee — released Thursday — recommends impeachment for Governor Rod Blagojevich. A draft report from the Illinois House committee investigating Governor Rod Blagojevich calls for the full chamber to vote on impeaching him. The committee could vote to accept the [...]
OAKLAND, Calif.  Protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer turned violent Wednesday night with windows broken, fires set and train stations closed. A few hundred protesters took the streets of downtown Oakland to condemn the shooting and call for criminal charges against 27-year-old officer [...]
Yeah … just too hard and unpopular to stand by Israel here … eh, Papa? Cripes! Times Online: ‘Concentration camp’ remark threatens Pope’s visit to Israel by Richard Owen A question mark hangs over Pope Benedict XVI’s planned trip to Israel in May after Israeli officials expressed outrage over a Vatican statement comparing Gaza to [...]
UPDATE (10:30am EST): Lebanon condemns rocket attack Jan 8 – UN peacekeepers urge restraint after rockets are fired into Israel from Lebanese territory. It is so far unclear who is responsible for firing the rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon. While some Israelis fear it may signify an escalation of the conflict in the Gaza [...]