TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s Interior Ministry has released partial results showing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading with nearly 70 percent of votes counted so far in Friday’s election. Senior ministry official Kamran Daneshjoo says Ahmadinejad had 68.8 percent of the more than 10 million ballots counted so far. His main reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi [...]
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The LA Times: President Obama should just join the cast of “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” It’s not that farfetched; he’s been on everything else. The president is on TV more than the ShamWow guy, but I want to see a little more action. I’m still a fan, but there’s a fine [...]
The LA Times: A 15-year-old boy gunned down Harith Obeidi, who had just given a sermon at a Baghdad mosque. The teen also shot and killed four other people before being shot to death by guards. Reporting from Baghdad — The head of the Iraqi parliament’s largest Sunni Arab bloc was gunned down by a [...]
Well the polls have closed In Iran. Turnout was massive and could break records. Crowds formed quickly at many voting sites in areas considered both strongholds for Ahmadinejad and his main rival, reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi, who served as prime minister in the 1980s and has become the surprise hero of a powerful youth-driven movement. [...]
FOX News: Just under half of Americans say they would vote to confirm President Barack Obama’s nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court — and most disagree with her comments about a “wise Latina” justice making better decisions than a white man. A FOX News poll released Friday finds 46 percent of voters nationwide [...]
Since this story was published more informations has surfaced… See below… YAHOO News By ANN SANNER and PETE YOST, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position. [...]
The U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions against North Korea Friday for its recent nuclear test. The resolution imposes new sanctions on the reclusive communist nation’s weapons exports and financial dealings, and allows inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas. U.S. deputy ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo said Friday’s vote was a [...]
. “I think the American people want capitalism, but if we’re going to have socialism for some companies, they don’t want capitalism for the executives of those companies.”
Raw video : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being heckled by the supporters of his main rival, reformer Mirhossein Mousavi. LiveLeak .
Or has he gone to the Mountain Top, called by eternity to return with tablets etched in stone by a Spirit of Fire, in order to fulfill a great promise made to mankind?
LiveLeak The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) says Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee a controversial document arguing that the death penalty is “racist†and a violation of the present “humanist†thinking of society. The 1981 memo, they say, should have been disclosed as required under Question 12 (b) of the [...]
AOP By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan says militants are short of food, weapons and other supplies needed to fight foreign forces there, a Web site linked to the group said. Al Qaeda has been severely weakened in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces toppled their Taliban hosts in response [...]
NRO By Victor Davis Hanson In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, [...]
Townhall by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world. Now that Obama has returned from his “Muslim world” pilgrimage, even the left agrees. “Obama’s standing above [...]
Fox 11 WLUK-TV Reporter: Lou Hillman GREEN BAY – Organizers said about 1,000 people lined the east side of Packerland Drive Thursday morning to protest President Obama’s stop in Green Bay. Stretching four blocks long, the protest parked itself along the motorcade route between Austin Straubel Airport and Green Bay Southwest High School. Most of [...]
It’s time for the DHS to target anti-war protesters. The Holocaust Museum Killer, Left-Wing Extremist James Van Brunn, was one of them. Left Wing Extremist agitation sheet Gawker.com tries to cover facts like this up. Gawker: Former Drudge alter ego Andrew Breitbart thinks James von Brunn was a “multiculturalist just like the black studies and [...]
American Thinker By Lee Cary After Congress passes a national health care plan, nationalizing public education will be next. John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends (1988), said something to the effect that Ronald Reagan wasn’t leading the (conservative) parade; he was riding the horse that was leading the parade. Barack Obama is leading the progressive parade, [...]