Washington Times: Who can be against affordable, quality health care? Want easy access to the doctor of your choice? Who doesn’t? And who can say no to better innovations in medicine and medical devices? Get used to these rhetorical queries. As the health care reform debate cranks up in the coming months, advocacy groups will [...]
FOX: 1 Dead, 4 Injured in Shooting at First Baptist Church in Illinois An Illinois pastor used the Bible he was reading out of to shield himself from bullets being pumped at him from an unknown gunman who opened fire during Sunday services at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. Senior Pastor Fred Winters [...]
The Bismarck Tribune: MINNEAPOLIS – For many Minnesota Muslims, it’s been virtually impossible to buy a home, because Islamic law forbids the paying or charging of interest. To help close the home ownership gap among Muslim immigrants, the state’s housing agency has launched a new program offering Islamic mortgages. Islamic law does make exceptions to [...]
TEHRAN – Iran has test-fired a new air-to-surface missile, Iranian media reported on Sunday, in the Islamic Republic’s latest display of its military capability. The missile test was carried out despite the offer by the administration of new U.S. President Barack Obama to engage Iran in direct talks if it “unclenches its fist”. Iran’s Fars [...]
Update: The estimated numbers of those attending this Tea Party have nearly doubled since the OC Register story was written. OC Register: Thousands join talk show hosts in tax protest Officials estimate more than 8,000 people showed up in downtown Fullerton to protest tax hikes in budget deal. Slide Show here. By LINDSEY BAGUIO FULLERTON [...]
New York Times: The Conservative Kid SITTING in the back seat of his mother’s van as she drives through Atlanta suburbs, Jonathan Krohn is about to sign off with a conservative radio talk show host in Florida. In the 40 minutes he’s been on the air, with the help of his mother’s cellphone, this hyper-articulate [...]
Guardian UK: Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold US companies are queuing up as the president moves to ease restrictions on travel and trade, raising hopes of warmer relations and an end to the embargo by Rory Carroll President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to [...]
I hate to break it to these guys, but Iraq’s secular government-seeking Sunnis who allied with us are not analagous to Afghanistan’s sharia government-seeking Taliban. For the situation to be analagous we would have had to have allied with “moderate” members of Al Qaeda, just as Karzai and Obama are seeking to ally with “moderate” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama offered his domestic-policy proposals as a “break from a troubled past.” But the economic outlook now is more troubled than it was even in January, despite Obama’s bold rhetoric and commitment of more trillions of dollars. And while his personal popularity remains high, some economists and lawmakers are beginning [...]
This is just your run-of-the-mill, boring local newsy report about Miley Cyrus fans camping out outside her book signing in NYC this week, until it suddenly becomes about an adult man from Georgia who thinks Miley is communicating to him through paparazzi pictures. Mark McLeod, 45, was waiting in a tent with boxes full of [...]
Washington Post: The Storm As an economic hurricane rages, Washington tunes in to Rush Limbaugh. WE HAVE no idea whether this economic crisis will be equal to, milder than or worse than the Great Depression. But evidence of extraordinary, historic distress is growing. The Dow Jones industrial average has slumped 54 percent in the past [...]
UPDATE: First of all let’s take a look at the cowardly little assassin who wrote this chicken masterpiece, Politico’s in-house uber-dweeb Andy Barr. Not only does he look like “30 Rock”‘s Kenneth more than Bobby Jindal does, he actually looks nerdier than Kenneth himself. In fact, I’m almost half-tempted to believe that his motive for [...]
See for yourselves: Politico: For the first time since taking office, President Obama is suggesting that some Americans may be overreacting to the nation’s economic woes by dramatically ratcheting back their spending. “What I don’t think people should do is suddenly stuff money in their mattresses and pull back completely from spending,” Obama told The [...]
