Sky News The family of a mentally ill Briton facing the death penalty in China have appealed for his life to be spared. Akmal Shaikh, 53, from North London, is facing execution after around £250,000 worth of heroin was found in a suitcase he was carrying in China in September. When arrested he told Chinese [...]
By NAFTALI BENDAVID WASHINGTON — Americans have historically swung between anger at big business and anger at Washington. This year their rage has targeted business and government with equal fury. Public frustration over Wall Street failures that led to the financial crisis was typified by the uproar over bonus payments to American International Group Inc. [...]
Politico Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) staked a powerful claim Tuesday that his health care bill is about as far as his party is willing to go in turning the president’s vision of reform into reality. And it was a Republican — Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine — who helped him stand up [...]
American Thinker Despite countless speeches and news conferences, did you ever hear President Obama express the following ideas? 1. Not everything is a federal issue; some things are for the states to decide. 2. I hear what you’re saying and you have a good point. 3. One of the beautiful things about our constitution is [...]
By James Tozer A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial ‘death pathway’. Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers. [...]
WASHINGTON — A top White House official issued a robust defense of the Obama administration’s recovery policies on Monday with a pointed critique of economic conditions and fiscal policies during the presidency of George W. Bush. In a letter to House Republican leader John Boehner, White House chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers said President Barack [...]
LONDON (AFP) – The price of gold forged a record high above 1,068 dollars an ounce here on Tuesday as the dollar sank against the euro. On the London Bullion Market, gold struck 1,068.63 dollars an ounce, which was the highest level ever recorded. Gold’s latest pinnacle was recorded after the European single currency climbed [...]
Rory McCarthy Jerusalem Palestinian political leaders have expressed acute disappointment in the Obama administration, saying their hopes that it could bring peace to the Middle East have “evaporated” and accusing the White House of giving in to Israeli pressure. The unusually frank comments come in an internal memo from the Fatah party, led by the [...]
ALBANY, Ore. – At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments – but residents have been told they can’t fly any flags at all. Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading [...]
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NBC Boston: LAKEVILLE, Mass — Police along with the Secret Service are investigating after a local country club discovered a symbol that represents eastern religious beliefs carved into the green. Lakeville Country Club workers discovered the vandalism early Monday morning. Police believe the vandals meant to carve a swastika next to President Barack Obama’s name [...]
Background from TPM on September 16, 2009: In an interview with TPM just now, Birther evangelist Orly Taitz fired back at Clay Land, the U.S. district court judge who tore apart Birtherism and threatened Taitz with sanctions in an order today, saying that “somebody should consider trying [the judge] for treason and aiding and abetting [...]
Fox News: Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit military nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads. The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. [...]
McClatchy: A powerful campaign to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba is rumbling through Congress, with both backers and opponents predicting eventual victory and a Cuban-American Senator holding a key vote. Approval of the measures would have a profound impact on U.S.-Cuba relations, unleashing an estimated one million American tourists to visit the island [...]
Washington Post: BOSTON–Commissioner Roger Goodell said here Tuesday that it would be inappropriate for the owner of an NFL franchise to make the sort of controversial statements attributed in the past to conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. “I’ve said many times before we’re all held to a high standard here, and I think [...]
McClatchy: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court questioned Tuesday whether defendants are entitled to accurate legal advice on all the potential consequences of a guilty plea. The case, Padilla v. Kentucky, which focuses on Jose Padilla, a Honduran-born immigrant who faces deportation after pleading guilty to felony marijuana trafficking, has broader significance for the more [...]
