It’s an improvement… Still wholly unacceptable of course, but if it can be compromised, it can be defeated. POLITICO: After weeks of head-banging negotiations, House Democrats finally got the breakthrough they needed on health care. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has cut the cost of his bill and cut a deal to [...]
POLITICO: Speaking at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C., President Obama defended his stimulus plan and poked fun at Newsweek … … for its latest cover, declaring: “The Recession is Over.” “I don’t know whether you’ve seen the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine on the rack at the grocery store, but the cover [...]
Unfortunately, there’s no treasure map or Nicholas Cage in sight. The Wall Street Journal: For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher — a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now. The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 [...]
This is a pretty revealing video. Death threats? She received death threats for calling the police? Sounds to me like some very strong racism at work, and it wasn’t directed TOWARDS Gates. It was conjured FROM him.
AZ Central: Call it a sign of desperate times: Legislators are considering selling the House and Senate buildings where they’ve conducted state business for more than 50 years. Dozens of other state properties also may be sold as the state government faces its worst financial crisis in a generation, if not ever. The plan isn’t [...]
BigHollywood: by Frank DeMartini It has been six months since the Administration took office and the far left have taken complete control of the government. Has our capitalist past been improved upon? Or, is the socialism we have had thrust upon us making us worse off? Has the foreign policy of appeasement and apology made [...]
AmericanThinker: By Joel B. Pollak I’ve seen how conspiracy theories can threaten a democracy. In 2005, when I was working as a speechwriter in the South African parliament, a far-left faction of the ruling African National Congress spun a yarn that accused the leader of the opposition, the intelligence minister, and the Mossad of colluding [...]
AmericanThinker: Rick Moran Michelle Malkin has a great column up at the New York Post this week that looks at President Obama’s Chicago-style bully pulpit – an historic use of the presidency that Obama has updated to reflect the thuggery of his Windy City roots: Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the “Today [...]
The LA Times: Reporting from Washington — With House leaders struggling to reach agreement on healthcare legislation, aiming toward a possible vote this week, a new hurdle has emerged: abortion. Some conservative Democrats are threatening to pull their support from the massive healthcare bill unless their concerns over potential federal funding of abortion procedures are [...]
CBS: A majority of the British public believes the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan cannot be won and British troops should be withdrawn immediately, according to a poll commissioned by The Independent. Above: British soldiers from the Welsh Guards carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe into The Guards Chapel in the Wellington [...]
FOX News: An usher said Tuesday he was chatting with abortion doctor George Tiller in church when he was gunned down and killed. Gary Hoepner testified at accused shooter Scott Roeder’s preliminary hearing that he and Tiller were making small talk May 31 when he saw a man come through a church door and put [...]
HAVANA (Reuters) – The United States has turned off a news ticker at its diplomatic mission in Havana that long had irritated the Cuban government, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, in another sign of efforts to improve relations with Cuba. The five-foot-high (1.5-meter) news ticker ran across 25 windows on the outside of [...]
