Politico: This one is already getting nasty — and the primary is still a year out. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has had to tweak an attack ad on conservative challenger Pat Toomey after the ad incorrectly claimed Toomey had traded the type of derivatives back in the 1980s that led to the current housing meltdown. [...]
Genuine AP photo, no photoshop Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: WASHINGTON — Opportunity is in season, and when Congress reconvenes in two weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to start harvesting. In a little more than two months, a new president has challenged a generation’s worth of notions about government’s proper scope, a divided Congress has approved unprecedented [...]
Politico: Will the Boston Globe be the latest newspaper casualty? The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down the Globe unless the union agrees to $20 million worth of concessions, according to the Globe. Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands Thursday morning in an approximately 90- minute meeting with [...]
Jerusalem Post: Iran defended North Korea’s rocket launch, saying Monday that every nation has the right to the peaceful use of space technology. North Korea claims it launched an experimental communications satellite into orbit Sunday, but the country’s critics say it was an illicit test of the regime’s long-range missile technology. Iran also has a [...]
Telegraph: Mr Giuliani told locals to evacuate their houses and posted a video on YouTube in which he said a build-up of radon gas around the seismically active area suggested a major earthquake was imminent. Several tremors had been felt in the medieval city of L’Aquila, around 60 miles east of Rome, from mid-January onwards, [...]
Times Online: Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said yesterday in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relic’s missing years. The Knights Templar, an order which was suppressed and disbanded for alleged heresy, took care of [...]
ANKARA, Turkey – Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.” Calling for a greater partnership with the Islamic world in an address to the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in [...]
According to Sky News: Rescuers were digging bodies out from the collapsed ruins of dozens of houses and emergency services said the death toll was ”bound to rise.” Gianfranco Fini, speaker of Italy’s lower house of parliament, said entire towns has been “virtually destroyed” with 15,000 buildings off limits. Fox News: A powerful earthquake in [...]
The first ACTIVE manuals and complete contact lists have gone out to all ACTIVE State Presidents. The website will be up in a few days. It’s on.
Eh. Not really a fan, but sums up parlor pinks so well I thought I’d post it. Lyrics (cause I can barely understand what he’s saying): There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise Don’t try to make me feel guilty I’m so tired of hearing you cry There’s nothing wrong with [...]
Airport face scanners ‘cannot tell the difference between Osama bin Laden and Winona Ryder’ Airport face scanners designed to verify travellers’ identity against their passport photographs are working at such a low level that they would be unable to tell the difference between Osama bin Laden and the actress Winona Ryder, it has been claimed. [...]
I’m guessing they mean something more like this: Than this: Saddam’s bed awaits daring honeymooners The former Iraqi dictator’s palatial boudoir is being offered to newlyweds for £150 a night Matthew Campbell TimesOnline SOME might think it macabre but Iraq is offering honeymooners the chance to spend their wedding night in Saddam Hussein’s bed. As [...]
Leave Turkey’s bid to join EU to us, Nicolas Sarkozy warns Barack Obama David Charter in Prague The love-in between Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama proved short-lived after the French President warned his US counterpart yesterday to keep his nose out of the issue of Turkey’s membership of the European Union. President Obama used his [...]
North Korea rocket puts Barack Obama on nuclear alert Tom Baldwin in Prague and James Bone in New York President Obama faced his first significant test on security yesterday after North Korea launched a long-range missile that could carry a warhead as far as Alaska. He said that such provocation underscored the need for action [...]
Rasmussen to apologize to ‘Islamic World’ By: Michael van der Galien PoliGazette To become NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen will apologize for the Mohammed cartoons. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s leader, was one of the few European politicians who refused to give in to pressure from fundamentalists in the Middle East when a Danish newspaper [...]
