MSNBC: It’s not an excuse most men use to get out of their marriage, but a Lancaster, Pa., man held up a bank to finally be free from his (not so) better half. Anthony Miller, 39, told a Lancaster County judge his wife abused him so badly that in 2007 he held up an Ephrata [...]
Med Broadcast: EDMONTON – Alberta is taking the first step to overhaul its health laws – including redefining public care – but Health Minister Ron Liepert stresses the move is not a stalking horse to introduce more privatization. “Some of our provincial legislation that guides our health-care system is around 100 years old, much of [...]
The Hill: Congress will not pass all 12 spending bills before the end of the fiscal year, according to senior senators. Though the House has passed all of its appropriations bills, the Senate has approved just four of them with less than a month before the fiscal year’s end, Sept. 30. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), [...]
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Salt Lake Tribute: A school principal has apologized for showing a video at an assembly that a politically conservative group leader is calling “radical, leftist propaganda.” Children at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington were shown a short video called “I pledge” on Aug. 28. The video opens with an image of President Barack Obama [...]
Telegraph: The grandson of Joseph Stalin has begun a libel suit against one of Russia’s leading liberal newspapers, accusing it of lying in an article that stated the wartime leader had killed Soviet citizens. As the Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, defended Stalin’s reputation Poland, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the dictator’s grandson, began his quest to claim [...]
POLITICO: Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama will address a joint session of [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — Recent town-hall uproars weren’t just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once. That suggests trouble for the president and his party, and fears of losses in next year’s midterm election are likely to shape the Democrats’ fall agenda. [...]
Best oil rig ever. Bloomberg: Sept. 2 — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, reported a “giant†discovery at the Tiber Prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that may contain more than 3 billion barrels, after drilling the world’s deepest exploration well. The well is located about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Houston, [...]
NLPC: by Ken Boehm NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites [...]
AmericanThinker: Thomas Lifson The president has a soft spot in his heart for the practice of covering women, lest they incite lust in the hearts of men. Bookworm points out that Barack Obama has on two occasions made rather a large point of supporting the Muslim practice if keeping women covered in hijabs and niqabs. [...]
RealClearPolitics: By Sean Trende There’s a myth circulating in the blogosphere and the punditry, and it is threatening the Democrats’ majorities. It goes like this: In 1994, Democrats failed to pass a healthcare bill, and they lost their majorities. Ergo, if Democrats fail to pass a healthcare bill in 2009, they will be at serious [...]
INN: . Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz A highly influential Shi’a religious leader, with whom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, apparently told followers last month that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs is acceptable against all opponents of the Islamic regime.. Warning: The imam’s question-and-answer session, partially reproduced here, contains [...]
