From Jake Tapper, the Last Man Standing as far as objective journalists go: Political Punch: ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign. During a conference call in preparation for [...]
Times Online: Britain’s final military mission in Iraq is in disarray after a failure to seal an agreement with the Baghdad Government by the end of last month forced two British ships to leave and scores of Royal Navy trainers to suspend work. Lieutenant-General Chris Brown, the top British military official in Iraq, now also [...]
Politico: It might be the oddest political pairing of the year. Barack Obama, whose campaign for president carefully avoided race-based political appeals, is teaming up with the man who once practically perfected them: the Rev. Al Sharpton. This double-take moment came last month, with Sharpton holding court with reporters at the White House, fresh out [...]
KTAR: PHOENIX – Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have asked for a probe of federal officials who are investigating the sheriff’s office for alleged discrimination and unconstitutional searches. Arpaio lawyer Robert Driscoll said in a letter that Department of Justice investigators conducting the civil rights probe improperly shared documents with the Department of [...]
This is old but was linked back in an article about obamas marriage at Ace Of Spades HQ. It’s worth revisiting and many probably missed it the first time around. The Lady Vanishes I’ve learned from an intelligence and strategic communications source that on May 18, 2004, Obama came to Washington, DC on a fundraising [...]
Fox News: The suspect in the deadly shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas is the latest in a series of Muslim converts accused of planning or launching violent attacks in the U.S., part of what security experts call an alarming domestic trend. The attack came less than two weeks after a foiled bomb [...]
By SHANNON McCAFFREY, The Associated Press http://www3.signonsandiego.com/ ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia’s system of using Social Security numbers and driver’s license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November’s election. In a letter released on [...]
A “gaffe” is just a soft term for “He f-ed up.” Years ago, you could buy a calendar of “Bush-isms,” silly quips spoken by our former President. Its only fair to have one of Joe Biden as well. At this rate, we’ll have enough to fill a Page-A-Day come 2011. Readers Digest: Good thing the [...]
I say its better then him being let loose in the Homeland. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. The [...]
Bloomberg: June 2 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.’s free mobile-phone operating system will begin running computers next quarter, entering a market dominated by Microsoft Corp.’s Windows and deepening the rivalry between the two companies. Acer Inc., the world’s second-largest laptop maker, will release a low-cost notebook featuring Android in the third quarter, Jim Wong, head of [...]
FOX News: A batch of raw footage from decades-old NASA missions shows zipping lights and strange objects in the sky. Recently posted on YouTube, the clips are renewing UFO conspiracy theories that the government is hiding knowledge about its interactions with intelligent life. But two astronauts dispute that — and talk about NASA’s supposed cover-up [...]
CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s deputy leader on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s upcoming speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, saying it will not change the “bloody messages” the U.S. military is sending Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Al-Qaida has repeatedly lashed out at Obama since he was elected, a move some analysts believe indicates the [...]
The truth shall set you free… CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS Poll: One in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries Poll released on eve of President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt, to Muslim world Poll: Americans say they aren’t at war with Muslims but think Muslims at war with U.S. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Shortly [...]
POLITICO: As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to the Arab world, the administration’s escalating pressure on Israel to freeze all growth of its settlements on Palestinian land has begun to stir concern among Israel’s numerous allies in both parties on Capitol Hill. “My concern is that we are applying pressure [...]
