Fox News: Iran declared its refusal Tuesday to discuss its nuclear program — including the disclosure of a second nuclear enrichment plant — when it sits down at the negotiating table Thursday with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, Reuters reported. A top Iranian official told the news agency that [...]
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) – Officials say two suspected U.S. missile strikes in northwest Pakistan have killed 13 militants. The first attack Tuesday killed six militants and wounded six others in South Waziristan. Three intelligence officials and one government official said a second missile later Tuesday hit a house owned by a known Afghan militant in [...]
Rasmussen: Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters say President Obama has not been aggressive enough in responding to Iran’s nuclear program. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only four percent (4%) think the president has been too aggressive in dealing with Iran, while 38% believe his response has been about right. In [...]
Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, now joined by Libya… Wahington Times: Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the “imperialism” of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations. The Libyan and Venezuelan leaders were expected to meet [...]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — As if it were not complicated enough, the debate over health care in Congress is becoming a battlefield in the fight over abortion. Abortion opponents in both the House and the Senate are seeking to block the millions of middle- and lower-income people who might receive federal insurance subsidies to help [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy organization says that the U.N. nuclear watchdog will soon be told when it can conduct inspections of a newly revealed facility. Ali Akbar Salehi told the English language state-owned Press TV early Monday that Iran would soon inform the International Atomic Energy Agency about when [...]
WASHINGTON – High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person’s civil rights. In lawsuits stemming from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks, three federal courts have left open the possibility that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a lieutenant may be held personally liable. In two [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — When President Obama stood last week with the leaders of Britain and France to denounce Iran’s construction of a secret nuclear plant, the Western powers all appeared to be on the same page. Behind their show of unity about Iran’s clandestine efforts to manufacture nuclear fuel, however, is a continuing [...]
Times Online: Gordon Brown will attempt today to reassure the voters of Middle England by promising new measures to tackle problem families, antisocial behaviour and drunkenness. In the most important speech of his career, the Prime Minister will say that he will not let the lives of the law-abiding majority to be ruined by the [...]
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Newsday: Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza — both seasonal and swine flu — New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves. The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with [...]
NBC: Vallejo, which went bankrupt after revenue proved less than costs for the Police and Fire departments as well as other city services, might just be able to save a little money. The Police Department is now using a transcription service based in Tennessee, Nashville-McLintock Transcription and Consulting Services, to write up police reports. The [...]
Cue Liberal-organized book burnings. Conservatives 4 Palin: According to the Associated Press, Governor Palin has completed her memoir, titled Going Rogue: An American Life. Her publisher has pushed the release date to November 17th. Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham says the former Alaska governor invested herself deeply and passionately in the project. He says the book [...]
