WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s ambitious plans for a new era of big-government activism depend on a full economic recoveryâ€â€and those prospects don’t look good anytime soon. More grim economic news out Friday means it will be even harder to get the economic growth that Obama baked into his bold new $3.6 trillion budget. [...]
Fox News: President Obama, declaring there is “renewed cause for hope in Iraq,” on Friday announced his plan to end combat operations in Iraq by August of next year. “Let me say this as plainly as I can. By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” Obama told Marines at Camp Lejeune, [...]
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Fox News: A man from President Obama’s hometown of Chicago has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them. It’s only the second time ever that HIV-infected blood has been sent with malicious intent through the U.S. mail system, a spokesman for [...]
London, February 27 (ANI): Acting legend Clint Eastwood , 79, apparently believes that political correctness has rendered modern society humourless, for he accuses younger generations of spending too much time trying to avoid being offensive. The Dirty Harry star insists that he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fearing that people [...]
International Herald Tribune: WASHINGTON: A group of liberal bloggers said it is teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party farther to the left. Soliciting donations from their readers, the bloggers said they are planning to recruit liberal candidates for challenges against [...]
Dirty treacherous witch? WCBSTV: In a swift about face from her views as New York’s senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now hammering Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. As First Lady, Clinton raised eyebrows when she kissed Suha Arafat. Since she was then seeking a Senate seat the resulting brouhaha caused [...]
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Sunday Mercury: HOME secretary Jacqui Smith is facing a double standards row after it was revealed that an Islamic extremist exposed by the Sunday Mercury is set to travel to the UK. In November 2008 the Sunday Mercury revealed that Ibrahim Moussawi, a journalist linked to terrorist group Hezbollah, had been awarded a PhD from [...]
The transfer is the first signal of how the Obama administration is likely to handle accused terrorists, a significant shift from the strategy of the Bush administration WASHINGTON — An accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent held for 5 1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial [...]
Dick Morris In The Hill: Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the [...]
Times Online: President Obama set up a long and bloody battle with Republicans today when he unveiled an almost $4 trillion budget that raises taxes, slashes military spending and increases the national deficit to its highest level since World War II. Mr Obama’s first budget included a series of contentious provisions that produced howls of [...]
Washington Times: The Senate overwhelmingly put itself on record Thursday against any revival of the defunct “Fairness Doctrine,” designed to require public broadcasters to air “balanced” coverage of controversial issues. Conservatives have worried that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats were plotting to revive the policy, dropped in the last years of the Reagan administration, [...]
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon denies that Mexico is a failed state. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, he rejected U.S. government reports that questioned whether the Mexican government is losing control of its territory to drug cartels. Calderon said his government has not “lost any partâ€â€any single partâ€â€of the Mexican [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s budget director said on Thursday that without a shift in policies the U.S. deficit would reach $9 trillion over the next decade. White House budget chief Peter Orszag said the Obama administration’s budget outline reflects costs for the war in Iraq and other items that were previously [...]
America has been transformed into the old-school, late 60′s-early 70′s, Leftist’s wet dream. All the old, intellectually empty and completely discredited principles of that era’s neo-Marxist economic, social, and cultural philosophies now rule the day. Welcome to the Weather Underground’s America. And the Republicans are complete dopes, playing nice, refusing to call a spade a [...]
The Passions for Christ movement, a group of American born-again Christians, have launched a series of “Ex-” T-shirts in which members declare that, thanks to Christ, they are now ex-fornicators, ex-homosexuals or ex-porn addicts. And, as you can see below, there is another category.
“We’ve never met anybody who disliked the cow”