WASHINGTON — House Democrats put their divisions on display over the details and timing of health care legislation Tuesday despite fresh attempts by President Barack Obama to hasten a compromise on the issue that looms increasingly as a major test of his clout. With a self-imposed deadline for action in jeopardy, the Democratic leadership juggled [...]
FOX News: John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, considered compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures to shrink the human population in a 1977 science textbook. President Obama’s “science czar,” Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, “compulsory sterilization,” and the creation of a “Planetary Regime” that [...]
Obama is the short line under Carter’s long line USA Today: WASHINGTON — A president’s standing after his first six months in office doesn’t forecast whether he’ll have a successful four-year term, but it does signal how much political juice he’ll have for his second six months in office. Continue
They have flogging “specialists” in Muslim prisons. Enough said. The Daily Mail: An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged for having a beer in a nightclub, a court official said today. It is rare for a woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to caning – a punishment usually reserved [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama’s political appeal rested on his vision for a “post-partisan future.†The post-partisan future was one of the press corps’ favorite phrases. It served as shorthand for the candidate’s repeated references to “unity of purpose,†looking beyond a red or blue America, and [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts. The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters. An investigator [...]
Sarcasm of course, California is still in the ter financially. The very idea of having to issue an IOU is absurd. But still, progress is progress, even as a result of regress. SACRAMENTO – California may soon be able to stop printing IOUs now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have agreed on a [...]
The Daily Mail: Thousands of heavily armed soldiers have been deployed in Mexico in the government’s latest efforts to crack down on the country’s drug war. Troops set up roadblocks on major highways in the western state of Michoacan on Saturday in response to a series of drug gang attacks on police. Armed with automatic [...]
WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats warned President Barack Obama on Tuesday that he sounded too much like George W. Bush when he declared this summer that the White House can ignore legislation he thinks oversteps the Constitution. In a letter to the president, four senior House members said they were “surprised” and “chagrin ed” by Obama’s [...]
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This man is on his way out, and the Dems call him back from the dead so they’ll have enough votes to strong-arm through key issues. After this, I’m sure they’ll consider that Byrd has outlived his usefulness and severed off to die quietly, knowing that he was used on his last legs to push [...]
SKY News: Nato cannot afford to walk away from Afghanistan however dangerous or expensive the campaign becomes, the alliance’s Secretary General has warned. Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, who stands down next week after five years at the helm of Nato, said failure in Afghanistan would give a “free run” for al Qaida’s global terrorist ambitions. [...]
FOX News: WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted to strip money for seven additional F-22 jets from a $680 billion defense bill, after President Obama threatened to veto the entire bill if the money remained. The 58-40 vote was a win for the White House and, for the moment, prevents Obama from using the [...]
From Atlas Shrugged: CAIR is claiming victory in yet another encroachment on our freedoms in the advancement of the implementation of sharia law. In a craven capitulation to Islamic supremacism, Wal-Mart will accommodate Muslim prayer in the workplace. It is not for us to bend to the will of Islam. Mind you, it is not [...]
