UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Czech President Vaclav Klaus sharply criticized a U.N. meeting on climate change on Tuesday at which U.S. President Barack Obama was among the top speakers, describing it as propagandistic and undignified. “It was sad and it was frustrating,” said Klaus, one of the world’s most vocal skeptics on the topic of [...]
Mashable: Starbucks and the iPhone are sort of the perfect combination. You can browse the web for free on the AT&T hotspots, you can buy in-store songs from iTunes right from your phone, and now you can use two new official iPhone apps. Now available in the App Store, myStarbucks (iTunes Link) and Starbucks Card [...]
Politico: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “is in another world†if she believes raucous anti-health-reform demonstrations could lead to violence — and he says he hasn’t personally witnessed racist comments during a summer of passionate town hall demonstrations. The Virginia Republican, speaking to POLITICO on a day when President Barack [...]
WASHINGTON – Republicans argued health legislation would hurt seniors and Democrats said it would do nothing of the sort as the Senate Finance Committee resumed debate Wednesday on a bill to remake the nation’s health care system. The second day of Chairman Max Baucus’ meeting on his nearly $900 billion, 10-year bill to enact President [...]
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Washington Times: Inspirational artist Thomas Kinkade’s renowned “Flags Over the Capitol” painting depicted Old Glory flying pristinely and proudly over Congress. But the American flags fluttering this month atop the House office buildings on Capitol Hill where lawmakers and their staffs work each day were tattered, torn and neglected – hardly worthy of a patriotic [...]
Washington Post: The founder of ACORN, the community organizing group embarrassed recently in a video sting, says many of the accusations about the group are distortions meant to undermine President Obama and other Democrats. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, founder Wade Rathke said conservative claims that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon said Wednesday that a request for new troops from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate the American commitment to the eight-year war. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the troop request from U.S. and NATO [...]
CHICAGO – Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. Inspired by his message of “change,” they knocked on doors, spread flyers, voted for him by a 2-1 margin, and partied like rock-the-vote stars when he won. Since the election, though, that fervor has died down — noticeably. And [...]
When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work. A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, W.Va., had a [...]
Politico: Congressional Republicans may be struggling to communicate a coherent message above the angry din generated by town hall protests, Rep. Joe Wilson’s scream and conservative talkers, but a new study finds it’s not for lack of tweeting. Nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats have accounts on the social networking platform Twitter (101 compared [...]
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