Family Security Matters: Marine Corporal Brian Mathews was home on a three-day leave for the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday. He had finished an eight-month tour of duty in Iraq and was planning to leave the military in June, 2007. Corporal Mathews, 21 years old, had enlisted in the Marines on his 17th birthday. Brian’s mom, Trudy, [...]
New York Times: Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror WASHINGTON — In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool [...]
Politico: Sen. Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who’d like to send him packing in 2012. But Lieberman doesn’t seem worried. “I don’t think about that stuff,†Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m just — I’m being [...]
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Hollywood (AP) – – Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years. Monday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share — the best since Winfrey had the entire Osmond family on the show in 2007. That [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties to bring fresh pressure on Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear program. Obama’s warning came after Iran rejected a compromise proposal to ship its low-enriched [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that would let them meet Sarah Palin. Thousands gathered outside a Barnes & Noble and chanted “Palin! Palin! Palin!” for the kickoff of the former Republican [...]
Reason: Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be. Last week the [...]
Big Government: [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she [...]
The American Spectator: Barack Obama was supposed to be America’s answer to the suave, European head of state. A debonair gentleman of the world, he would charm even the most sophisticated foreign leaders and prove, finally, that the United States is developed culturally, not just economically. Then he gave some DVDs. Ian Drury of London’s [...]
NPR: The professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is expected to arrive in New York for trial by the end of the year. But it won’t be his first trip to America. He has been here before, as a college student in the early 1980s. Mohammed’s first real taste of [...]
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News Busters: There’s liberal hypocrisy on the part of New York Times economics columnist and left-wing blog-follower Paul Krugman in his Monday nytimes.com blog post, “Proposed extensions of Godwin’s Law.” Leading into a discussion of how he thinks people should discuss inflation and interest rates, Krugman said: Godwin’s Law — which says that in any [...]
Fox News: The Senate’s version of President Obama’s sweeping health care plan would cost $849 billion, according to a preliminary estimate by the Congressional Budget Office. The bill would expand health care coverage to more than 94 percent of Americans, and cut the federal deficit by $127 billion over the first 10 years and as [...]
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MILAN (AP) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won’t be running for another office. “I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else,” Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, [...]
Fox News: Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book. When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages. The AP [...]
