Agencie France Presse: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Friday that White House criticism of commentators on his Fox News television channel had served to “tremendously” increase their ratings. “There were some strong remarks coming out of the White House about one or two of the commentators on Fox News,” Murdoch told the annual [...]
Slate: President Obama has said he will not sign a health care reform bill unless it’s paid for. If it doesn’t lower costs, he will suggest spending cuts to make sure the deficit doesn’t grow. That’s a promise he says he will keep. But what about future presidents and members of Congress? The question is [...]
Josh Gerstein The White House is sharply rejecting arguments by two legal scholars that it would be unconstitutional for President Barack Obama to accept the Nobel Peace Prize without approval from Congress. “This argument is flat out wrong. The Constitution talks about kings and princes and foreign states. Here, Alfred Nobel, a private citizen, set [...]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) – More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a ground offensive against al-Qaida and the Taliban’s main stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday, officials said, in the country’s toughest test yet against a strengthening insurgency. The United States has long pushed the government to carry out an assault in South Waziristan, [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor’s patio, but didn’t call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday. Cameraman Austin Raishbrook, owner of RMG News, told the Los [...]
By DANIEL LIBIT Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer couldn’t get Hollywood interested in his conservative answer to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,†so he’s trying to promote it a different way — by getting tea party protesters to turn out for thousands of screenings across the country Sunday night. McAleer is billing the multicity premiere of “Not [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked Target stores and a costume company to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants. The costume features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with “illegal alien” written across the [...]
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FOX News: The last few weeks have seen a greater focus on U.S. efforts in Afghanistan — both in terms of the current status of the conflict and the range of future policy options. President Obama has addressed the issue, as has the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Although support for sending additional [...]
Wall Street Journal: David Checketts, an investor and owner of sports teams, approached me in late May about investing in the St. Louis Rams football franchise. As a football fan, I was intrigued. I invited him to my home where we discussed it further. Even after informing him that some people might try to make [...]
The Washington Times: Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis. Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into [...]
FLASHBACK: Actual Adult Male John Bolton (as opposed to adolescent communist fantasist Barack Obama) Gives Us The Straight Dope Two Years Ago: “Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an [...]
The Telegraph: The x-rated advertisement, for Jamieson’s Raspberry Ale, depicts the fairytale heroine blowing smoke rings while lying in bed with seven semi-clad dwarves. In this Disney dystopia, Snow White has been renamed “Ho White”, while the loveable dwarves Sleepy, Happy and Doc are rebranded Filthy, Smarmy and Randy – supposedly to represent different types [...]
FOX News: Despite charges that it has tried to “infiltrate” Capitol Hill with interns, the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group appears to have no more leverage than any other group over the internship process in Congress. Four House Republicans on Wednesday called for an investigation into the Council on American Islamic Relations after discovering an [...]
CBS: CHICAGO – It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing. CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman reports. All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It’s not a school [...]
