SACRAMENTO — California’s fiscal crisis has left the US state without courts and some administration offices were ordered to close on Friday. A predicted 24 billion dollar budget deficit over the next two years has forced Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to order massive cost-cutting measures. “We will be closed this Friday, as the last and the [...]
The Hill: The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge’s website linked to a want ad for contractors [...]
Politico: Of all the statistics pouring into the White House every day, top economic adviser Larry Summers highlighted one Friday to make his case that the economic free-fall has ended. The number of people searching for the term “economic depression†on Google is down to normal levels, Summers said. Searches for the term were up [...]
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WAPO: BAGHDAD, July 17 — The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of their troops. In a curt missive issued by the Baghdad Operations Command on [...]
Walter Cronkite, died Friday. He was 92. Cronkite spent the last 30 years promoting ultra-leftist causes. Cronkite’s longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease. His 1968 editorial declaring the United States was “mired [...]
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But they assure us Iran would never do such a thing… VIENNA – Iran is blocking U.N. nuclear agency attempts to upgrade monitoring of its atomic program while advancing those activities to the stage that the country would have the means to test a weapon within six months, UN diplomats told The Associated Press Friday. [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) – The owner of a southern Wisconsin house might not be in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener right now.
Media Bistro: TVNewser has learned CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen’s contract will not be renewed and she will be leaving the network. Roesgen, you’ll recall, was criticized for her coverage at the tax day tea parties in April, when she said the event she was covering in Chicago was, “anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by [...]
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Politico: Democrats’ triumphant rollout of a sweeping health care reform bill earlier this week already feels like a distant memory. Rank-and-file Democrats don’t like it — and aren’t afraid to say so. The speaker has already backpedaled on a key tax increase — putting her in a weaker negotiating position. And one outspoken Democratic critic [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama, projecting confidence health care legislation will clear Congress, urged lawmakers strongly on Friday to write stiffer cost-cutting provisions into the bills taking shape slowly in the House and Senate. “What we want to do is force the Congress to make sure that they are acting” on recommendations lawmakers receive [...]
So now the Democrats demand to be briefed on every idea a CIA agent has, whether it’s acted on or not. The Dems are once again throwing America under the bus for imagined political gain. WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee said Friday it will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not informing [...]
