The LA Times: Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn’t panic. He didn’t rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless “kind of settled nicely.” Week one: “I thought, ‘OK . . . I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, [...]
FOX News: House Minority Leader John Boehner on Thursday stepped up his calls for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to come clean after she accused the CIA of lying to Congress about Bush-era interrogation techniques employed on terror suspects. “She’s made this outrageous claim,” he said, asserting that it has undermined the ability of intelligence officials to [...]
By Bob Ellis http://www.dakotavoice.com President Barack Obama seems determined to appoint to some government position every lawbreaker, anti-American, promoter of death, sexual anarchist, environmental extremist, reverse racist, animal rights wacko and sexually confused person he can find. The latest morally bankrupt person to join Team Obama is Kevin Jennings, now Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education. [...]
Republican Leader: ACORN Contributed to Financial Collapse & Was Rewarded With Tens of Millions in Federal Funds Washington, Jun 4 – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and dozens of other House Republicans today became original cosponsors of the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, a bill introduced by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to prohibit organizations [...]
NEW YORK – Oil prices on Thursday set a new high for the year, buoyed by a weaker dollar and the first drop in unemployment since January. Benchmark crude for July delivery was up $2.69 to settle at $68.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil climbed as high as $69.60 earlier in [...]
SEOUL, South Korea – Two American journalists headed to trial Thursday before North Korea’s highest court on charges they crossed into the country illegally and engaged in “hostile acts”—allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore’s California-based Current TV, were [...]
Related: Israeli Defense Minister Tells Obama To Shut His F-ing Mouth Harretz.com A lawmaker belonging to the Hezbollah militant organization on Thursday dismissed a speech given by United States President Barack Obama earlier in Cairo as being like a “sermon,” without signaling real change. “The Islamic world does not need moral or political sermons. It [...]
By Sen. Jim DeMint http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com It is too early to draw conclusions about President Obama and his administration. But so far, nothing so encapsulates the president’s approach to executive leadership than his famous rebuke to stimulus critics: “I won.†After four months of proposals, decisions, and public statements, it seems the president believes that the [...]
‘Lacking basic skills’? Here’s some $$ http://bostonherald.com/ Eagle Scouts need not apply. Valedictorians, ditto. So you say English is your native language? Tough break, kid. You live with your mother and your father? Strike 2. Never been arrested? Strike 3, you’re outta here. Come back after you drop out of school, or get pregnant. Now [...]
Ryan J. Donmoyer, Bloomberg http://www.financialpost.com Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corp., speaks at a meeting of the Business Software Alliance in Washington, D.C. on Wednesda. Listening are Jeff Ray, CEO of Dassault Systemes Solidworks, far left, and John Thompson, chairman of Symantec Corp., to the right of Ballmer.Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg NewsSteve Ballmer, chief executive of [...]
FOX News: In an apparent policy shift, President Obama on Thursday invited Hamas — a designated terror organization — to “play a role” in the future of the Palestinian people. During his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, the U.S. president bluntly recognized the group, which has called for the destruction of [...]
POLITICO: Just in case you thought the Senate’s schedule was already stuffed with fierce battles, the chamber’s top Democrat said he wants to take up comprehensive immigration reform this year, opening a new front on a divisive issue that sparked a roiling national debate two summers ago. Passing immigration reform is “going to happen this [...]
FOX News: AUSTIN, Texas — A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter’s intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections. Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted. According to an arrest [...]
FOX News: WASHINGTON — The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to free speech. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to possess firearms. Now the first two clauses in the Bill of Rights have come together in an ongoing debate over the right of college students to advocate that they be allowed to carry guns [...]
“Any world order that elevates one nation over another will inevitably fail.” – Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo, June 5, 2009 A nation is elevated by itself. If no nation is allowed to elevate itself, then there are in fact no sovereign nations. There is in fact, only a one-world nation, under a one-world government. “Our [...]
http://www.breitbart.com “And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our ideals. We are taking concrete actions to change [...]
