WASHINGTON – Major U.S. banks are still hemorrhaging red ink, despite massive taxpayer aid, and President Barack Obama is under pressure to take a high-stakes political gamble — asking for another bailout. Whether he would get one from a skeptical Congress is unclear, given the wide dissatisfaction with the first bailout, known as the Troubled [...]
NEW YORK – Discount retailer Target Corp (TGT.N) said on Tuesday that it will cut an undisclosed number of jobs in response to the weak economic environment. “Target is taking actions to manage payroll and non-payroll expense in the current environment,” the retailer said in a statement sent to Reuters. “While we can confirm that [...]
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed a bill on Monday to delay the nationwide switch to digital TV signals, giving consumers nearly four more months to prepare. The transition date would move to June 12 from February 17 under the bill that was fueled by worries that viewers are not technically ready for the congressionally-mandated switch-over. [...]
Prosecutors on Tuesday released secretly taped conversations which reveal how the governor accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s senate seat pressured a racetrack owner for campaign contributions. The FBI tapes were played in the Illinois state senate, which is currently holding an impeachment trial to determine whether Rod Blagojevich should be removed from [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she sees six-party negotiations aimed at disbanding North Korea’s nuclear arsenal as “essential.” “I think the six-party talks are essential,” she told reporters at the State Department when asked about the multilateral process started under former President George W. Bush. The six-way talks have [...]
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The Boston Herald: Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh took aim today at President Barack Obama’s warning to top Republicans that they need to quit listening to the conservative talker if they want to get along. “Now this is the great unifier,†Limbaugh told listeners just after noon today. “This is the man who’s going to [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment trial opened on Monday with a vacant chair reserved for the governor, who boycotted the proceedings and instead spent the day on the TV talk-show circuit in New York, complaining he is being railroaded. “The fix is in,” Blagojevich declared on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” As the Illinois [...]
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Dr Sami Alrabaa said: “If you say that Islam is a violent faith, you are accused of being anti-Islam and you are propagating Islamophobia. There are more than one billion Muslims around the world, and I’m one of them. We are told that the Koran is the “word of God.†When you read the Koran, [...]
Related: He Seems To Be Moving Fast Daily Tech: Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In [...]
Politico: The Gallup Poll on Saturday released the first job-approval rating for President Obama, based on interviews during his first three full days in office: 67 percent. Now that he’s in office, Obama’s approval ratings are starting to normalize, as partisan back-and-forth picks up. Just a week ago, Gallup found an astonishing 83 percent approval [...]
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VATICAN CITY – Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama’s decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them. Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, urged Obama to listen to all voices in America without “the [...]
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon’s war on drug trafficking has led to his own doorstep, with the arrest of a dozen high-ranking officials with alleged ties to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang, the Sinaloa Cartel. Gerardo Garay, the acting federal police chief, is accused of protecting Sinaloa and their former allies the Beltran Leyva [...]
Oufi Shiri And so the “humane” release of how many Guantanamo inmates has resulted in the inhumane murders of how many Americans? Agencie France Presse: WASHINGTON  Two men released from the US “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service [...]
Previous “Deep Thoughts”. For those of you who are new to the site, “Pat Dollard’s The Jihadi Killer Hour” broadcasts live on Blog Talk Radio every Sunday at 8 PM PST, 10 PM CST, and 11 PM EST. Here’s Your Direct Links To All Recent “The Jihadi Killer Hour” Shows: Glitter Girl Says: “A day [...]
“In his inauguration speech last Tuesday, he vowed to “roll back the specter of a warming planet” and championed renewable energy. “Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet,” Obama said. – More bull from the bull artist. If you’re concerned about strengthening our adversaries, [...]
Was on the phone with my Doc/sister when I saw this story. She has had a patient with this infection (managed to save the guy’s foot), and says it’s a horrible infection that doesn’t need oxygen to thrive, and bloats the extremity … Upon cutting into the infected limb the gas is released and as [...]