http://www.jpost.com/ The task of forming an international coalition to thwart Iran’s nuclear program will be made easier if progress is made in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has said, according to sources in Washington. Israeli TV stations had reported Monday night that Emanuel had actually linked [...]
http://www.breitbart.com/ ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) – It’s like this: When you want a burger, you have to have a burger. In this state of mind, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took a short—but wholly noticeable—motorcade ride from the White House to Virginia and pulled into a small, independent burger joint called Ray’s Hell [...]
http://www.swamppolitics.com/ by Mark Silva Sen. Arlen Specter’s bid for reelection could grow more complicated than he expected, with Rep. Joe Sestak saying today that he is “inclined” to seek the Democratic nomination as well. On Fox News Radio’s Brian and the Judge today, Sestak (D-Pa.) said he is now more inclined than ever to run [...]
PHANTOM AIR FARCE PICTURES By JEREMY OLSHAN http://www.nypost.com/ The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday. “We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further. The [...]
http://www.breitbart.com/ WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s joke wasn’t lost in translation—even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as “Cinco de Cuatro.” Obama jumbled his words as he welcomed guests to the White House to observe the Mexican holiday, sending the crowd into laughter before he referred to the day correctly. “Welcome [...]
http://www.politico.com/ Sure, it may be a publicity stunt – but if so it’s working. Next week, porn star Stormy Daniels launches her “Listening Tour” across Louisiana. The star of such films as “Operation Desert Stormy” will appear in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and New Orleans on Wednesday in order to “meet with Louisiana men and [...]
There was a video to go along with this, mentioning the 19,000+ fraudulent forms, but the embed code is all screwy. Instead, here is the link to said video. Please give it a look. LAS VEGAS – Nevada authorities filed criminal charges Monday against the political advocacy group ACORN and two former employees, alleging they [...]
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Yeah, I’m pissed too. We had some glitch come up with the scheduling someone had done in advance for me, which is unfixable at this point, its so fubar’ed. However I just personally went through all future shows and everything has been done correctly, solid as a rock, into next month, as far as I’m [...]
WASHINGTON – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will seek passage in coming weeks of $94.2 billion in emergency money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other programs, including $2 billion more to prepare for an influenza pandemic. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, outlining the legislation for reporters, also said the [...]
PARIS – True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets(Editor’s Note: See Laziest Gluttons), the French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world’s wealthy nations, according to a study published Monday. The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night, more than an hour longer than the average Japanese and [...]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,400 people in 20 countries.World health officials said the global epidemic is still in its early stages, and that a pandemic could be declared in the days to come. But Mexico’s [...]
CHARLES LAWTON The problem with the United States’ industrial policy is less what it is or isn’t than that we pretend we don’t have one. In proclaiming grandly that he’s got more important things to do than running auto companies and banks, the president is perpetuating the myth that the government has just stepped in, [...]
By Melissa Harris-Lacewell This week, the New York Times reported that the percentage of black Americans who believe race relations in America are generally good has doubled since July. This statistic forces me to ask: Why are African Americans feeling so good about our country in a time of economic crisis and international conflict? It [...]
By Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites Washington Post Staff Writers The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at [...]
h/t WandaFay by Declan McCullagh surprisingly from CBS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines necessary. DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. [...]
Christine Seib in New York President Obama has launched a crackdown on tax loopholes used by multinational corporations as part of a plan to save up to $210 billion over the next decade. It is a move that could cause further significant redundancies in the UK. The drive against corporate tax avoidance is also intended [...]
Andrew W. Smith Will Rogers famously pleaded that all he knew was what he read in the papers. If all a person knew of Barack Obama’s first 100 days as president was what they read of them in this newspaper, it would seem to be a very charmed young presidency. The Chronicle Herald recently made [...]
