POLITICO: Democratic leaders are working furiously to corral votes for a controversial climate change measure, hoping to build a big enough margin so that vulnerable Democrats can be freed to vote against it. At the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama declared: “Now is the time to act.†Former Vice President Al Gore, who [...]
FOX News: NOTE: This was an early am TEST VOTE only House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included “the largest tax increase in American history.” The vote was 217-205 to advance the [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Sometimes, paying three times the price for the same merchandise can be a good deal. That’s the American calculation behind quiet negotiations that will allow the United States to hang onto a Central Asian air base crucial to the expanding war in Afghanistan. The new deal with Kyrgyzstan would cost the U.S. [...]
TEHRAN (AP) – EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. ___ A senior cleric on Friday urged Iran’s protest [...]
Townhall: by Jillian Bandes Thousands of union members rallied for Obamacare on Capitol Hill today in a massive display of union outreach that threatened to deliver more votes for a controversial “public plan†option. The rally came on the heels of Obama raising the possibility that unions would be exempt from taxing health care benefits. [...]
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter. That message has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence and the unfortunate distinction of becoming one of the first people in [...]
AmericanThinker: EXCERPT By L.E. Ikenga Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama’s skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a [...]
The Sun: PARAMEDICS dashed to dying Michael Jackson’s side after a panic-stricken phone call from the superstar’s Los Angeles home. The dramatic call was made by a member of staff last night at just after 8pm UK time. Fire Department medics responded to the alert and arrived to find the 50-year-old singer collapsed and not [...]
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy LOS ANGELES (AP) – Across the country, people reacted in stunned disbelief Thursday as word spread that Michael Jackson had collapsed and died. Within minutes of Jackson’s arrival by ambulance at UCLA Medical Center people began arriving by the hundreds, the crowd quickly [...]
FOX News: Vice President Biden fired back Thursday at a Republican senator who accused the Obama administration of engaging in wasteful stimulus spending, saying 49 projects listed by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn as wasteful spending were rejected for funding. He said another 50 projects on Coburn’s list of 100 local projects funded by federal stimulus [...]
This is an outstanding video interview of the man who tried to save Neda. It’s about 19 minutes long but take the time to watch it…..one of the more shocking things to come out of it was that the crowd caught the gunman, and after taking his ID and picture let him go: . FloppingAces:
