WASHINGTON – Congress wants to give the government a direct role in deciding how much executives on Wall Street are paid, after the nation’s biggest banks accepted billions in taxpayer money and still managed to distribute $1 million bonuses to thousands of employees. The House was expected to pass legislation Friday by Rep. Barney Frank, [...]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. general in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes to U.S. and NATO operations, military officials and others familiar with his forthcoming report said. Those changes could include additional U.S. troops despite political headwind against further expansion of the war. As Gen. Stanley McChrystal [...]
Notice that Biden is there so it won’t look like two black guys against one white guy.
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By Ambassador John Bolton For The Wall Street Journal: Legions of senior American officials have descended on Jerusalem recently, but the most important of them has been Defense Secretary Robert Gates. His central objective was to dissuade Israel from carrying out military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. Under the guise of counseling “patience,†Mr. [...]
Times Online: The surge in British casualties in Afghanistan has left military surgeons so exhausted that a US surgical team has been drafted in to help. The British doctors have also been overwhelmed with casualties from other nations, including US Marines, Afghan troops and civilians. Extra British plastic surgeons have had to be sent to [...]
After nearly a week of anticipation, happy hour finally arrived Thursday at the White House. President Obama knocked back some cold beer in the Rose Garden with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley of Cambridge, Mass., the two men at the heart last week of a heated debate over race [...]
Politico: Color it blue, this latest House deal to keep health care reform moving: Blue Dogs, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and all the blues sung by rural, middle-income and working-class families if no relief comes on medical insurance. Battered in the polls, a desperate White House is hailing the bargain as a way to preserve momentum [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – As recently as two weeks ago it might not have looked like much of a victory. But after a series of delays and some rancorous disputes over President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority, final House committee action on a health overhaul bill is sure to be hailed as a big step forward. [...]
Times Online: More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests. An estimated 150,000 people with flu symptoms were prescribed the drug through a new hotline and website last week, according to figures revealed yesterday. Studies of children attending three schools in London and [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS America is a battlefield. The Cold War never ended. Our enemies were never defeated. Communism never collapsed. It has survived and its goals remain the same: the permanent destruction of the United States of America and the ultimate victory of world socialism. The future is in your hands. It is time to choose [...]
FOX News: Talk about a stimulus package. The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco. The NEA was given $80 [...]
WSJ: The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in By DEBRA BURLINGAME Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur†if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues [...]
FOX News: Health care reform could end up bailing out employers who hire illegal immigrants and skimp on their health benefits. Under the legislation being considered on Capitol Hill, undocumented workers would technically not be covered. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said as much in an interview Sunday. “No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this [...]
Above: Members of The White House staff work in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, where President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Sgt. James Crowley will have a beer later today. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama portrayed his much-anticipated chat Thursday evening with a black professor and the white police [...]
Let me get this straight. The liberal Senate is blaming the liberal media for “manufacturing” a deadline for a liberal Healthcare bill from a liberal president? Something doesn’t add up. Maybe it’s the fact that Congress has a recess in August? Or is that too coincidental? Maybe it’s the fact that people don’t want this [...]
It makes no mention, being that it’s CNN, but I do believe this is caused by everyone’s favorite Sharia Law. I could be mistaken, but even if I am, it doesn’t prove anything good about the region. CNN: A Sudanese journalist could receive 40 lashings after she was caught wearing trousers. A Sudanese court began [...]
Aspen Daily News: Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,†the legendary newsman said. Such a [...]
