So, how many different ways can you say, “We’re f***ed”? Obama Aides Recommend Sending Hundreds of Civilian Experts to Afghanistan Several hundred civilians from various U.S. government agencies — from agronomists to economists and legal experts — will be deployed to Afghanistan to reinforce the nonmilitary component in Kabul. WASHINGTON — Top aides to President [...]
Rasmussen Reports: Support for the Democratic Congressional candidates fell to a new low over the past week, allowing the GOP to move slightly head for the first time in recent years in the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate [...]
WASHINGTON – Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. Holder, who was chosen by President Barack Obama to lead the administration’s efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo [...]
FOX: President Obama will not advance a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service. President Obama, after an uproar by veterans groups, has scrapped a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment [...]
More Babies Born in 2007 Than Any Other Year in U.S. History More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 [...]
WSJ: In Defense of Tax Havens By RICHARD W. RAHN If the government suddenly said you would incur more onerous and expensive tax regulations and reporting requirements if you moved your business to a low-tax state such as Texas or Florida from a high-tax state such as New York or California, you would be justifiably [...]
FOX: Fannie Mae to Pay Bonuses of up to $611,000 for Four Execs Government-controlled mortgage finance titan discloses plan for bonuses of $470,000 to $611,000 for four top executives, on top of their base salaries, as sibling company Freddie Mac plans similar awards. WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae is planning to pay retention bonuses of as [...]
FOX: Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack called for Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner to lose his job Wednesday, becoming the first Capitol Hill lawmakers to call for his ouster over AIG’s using tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for executive bonuses. “Quite simply, the Timothy Geithner experience has been a disaster. The Treasury Department is in [...]
WSJ: By ROB CURRAN, GEOFFREY ROGOW and PETER A. MCKAY The Federal Reserve’s latest efforts to resuscitate private lending and the broader economy helped push stocks and bonds higher Wednesday afternoon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has climbed in six of the last seven trading sessions, gained 90.88 points, or 1.2%, to 7486.58. The [...]
ESPN: Team USA provides memory of a lifetimeFan becomes part of celebration after U.S. finishes dramatic comeback By Amy K. Nelson MIAMI — Brian Finnegan was only doing his job on Tuesday night when he saw Felix Perez in the handicapped section of Dolphin Stadium. Finnegan’s son, Tommy, had spent his life in a wheelchair [...]
Sky News: Obama In St Patrick’s Day Teleprompt Blunder A teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick’s Day celebration. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit [...]
Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are – Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama. The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out [...]
Politico: Some Dems want brake in Obama plans By BEN SMITH & MANU RAJU Barack Obama’s Big Bang Theory of Governance is starting to face its first big test among the new president’s fellow Democrats. At the White House Tuesday morning, Obama began the day with a sharp push-back against the idea that his uncommonly [...]
HONOLULU — The U.S. military says its ground-based mobile missile defense system has successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test in Hawaii. The military says the target missile was shot down Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean. The target missile was fired from a mobile launch platform off the island of Kauai. Soldiers [...]
Columbia Daily Tribune: ‘Fusion center’ data draws fire over assertions Politics, banners seen as suspect. By T.J. Greaney Tim Neal of Miller County was shocked recently when he heard a radio program about a strategic report compiled by state and federal law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism. Titled “The Modern Militia Movement,†the report is [...]
WND: But Defense policy reversed after intervention by 2 Montana senators By Drew Zahn Responding to two Democratic senators representing outraged private gun owners, the Department of Defense announced last night it has scrapped a new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass. The policy already [...]
CNS News: Army Investigating How and Why Troops Were Sent Into Alabama Town After Murder Spree By Pete Winn The U.S. Army has launched an inquiry into how and why active duty troops from Fort Rucker, Ala., came to be placed on the streets of Samson, Ala., during last week’s murder spree in that tiny [...]
