CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela. Penn may shoot a film based on a novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which is set largely in the jungle along Venezuela’s southern Orinoco river, Chavez [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of contentious negotiating, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to unveil a retooled health care overhaul plan intended to bridge differences among Democrats and open a history-making floor debate on extending health insurance to nearly all Americans. Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to have the legislation on the floor next week, with a [...]
Analysis by Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal: Democratic enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s liberal domestic agenda—particularly for a government-run health insurance program—could wane after the results of the gubernatorial elections next Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey. GOP victories in either state will tell Democrats in red states and districts that support for [...]
Politico: The White House fired back Wednesday night at an AP story questioning administration claims on job creation spurred by the Recovery Act. In a story titled “Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands,” AP highlighted discrepancies between reported job creation and actual hiring, pointing in one instance to a company that reported adding 4,231 jobs through [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government’s first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed [...]
This is the biggest jerk-off since the last White House press conference. The results of this study matter absolute zero with regard to answering the military’s troop request. Washington Post: President Obama has asked senior officials for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan to determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which [...]
Once again, we all have the opportunity to be just absolutely blown away by the amazing successes of this new era of Obama foreign policy, all the change, all the hope, all the huge difference his “genius” new approach has made… Jerusalem Post: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his country would not give [...]
Time: In a new memoir, The Audacity to Win, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 race for the White House, provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the campaign. Here’s an excerpt. Agony. Ecstasy. The [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright story broke on a Wednesday and exploded across the media landscape the next day. We decided Obama had [...]
Wall Street Journal: The Federal Trade Commission would get new powers to oversee and punish companies that run afoul of its rules as part of a financial-services oversight bill currently before Congress, a further step in the Obama administration’s beefing up of the U.S. regulatory machinery. The provision, which has reached this point virtually unnoticed [...]
Red State: Lindsey Graham is listed as on official member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the Committee’s website, but when the Committee does business on Thursday mornings, Graham is conspicuously absent. Insiders have indicated to me that this is beginning to aggravate the other Republicans on the Committee. After Snarlin Arlen switched parties, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates. The president spoke of a nation becoming a place where “we’re all free to live and love as we see fit.” The new law expands [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation. The $680 billion bill authorizes [...]
IBD Editorials: The Environment: Britain’s climate chief says humans should give up eating meat to protect the planet from global warming. The alarmists keep making it hard for anyone to take them seriously. According to Lord Nicholas Stern, “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous [...]
Editor’s Note: This may or may not be the actual mosque in question. Detroit News: Detroit — The leader of a black separatist Detroit mosque was shot and killed Wednesday during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 12 and the death of an FBI dog. At least six of those charged [...]
CNS News: Around the globe, environmental protesters tried “a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef,†according to The New York Times. The sweeping Oct. 24 protest was to bully developed nations like the United States into a climate change agreement when they meet in Copenhagen this [...]
Politico: A series of recent polls reveals that Vice President Joe Biden’s popularity has significantly declined over the past year, lagging well behind President Barack Obama’s and even his recent vice presidential predecessors. This week, a Gallup Poll showed those holding a favorable opinion of Biden had dropped to 42 percent among the American public, [...]
