Life News: Washington, DC — Bart Stupak is now a household name thanks to the amendment he sponsored to the House health care bill that bears his moniker. The House approved his amendment to de-fund abortions in the government-run health care program and he is warning abortion advocates not to remove it. Pro-Life lawmakers teamed [...]
CBS: Richard and Mayumi Heene will plead guilty Friday to charges stemming from last month’s Balloon Boy hoax, the couple’s lawyer said. The Larimer and Jackson, Colo. county District Attorney offices formally filed charges Thursday. Mayumi Heene will plead guilty to falsely reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor. Richard Heene’s charge – attempting to influence a [...]
CBS: Pembroke, IL. – If you think the recession has hit hard where you live, consider the little Northern Illinois town where almost half the working age adults are out of work. It’s called Pembroke. CBS2′s Mike Parker reports. Imagine a community so deep in the hole, the government has fired the police force and [...]
Snooper here… The conservative tsunami is coming. Get ready. The tsunami will be for true democrats, true conservatives and true independents. It won’t be a good thing for the elite politician that thinks “the will of Congress will be done”. It isn’t about “we the congress”, people. It will be the “will of the people”. [...]
Fox News: DEVELOPING: Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan will be charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week’s Fort Hood mass shootings, a military source told Fox News Thursday. Hasan, 39, is suspected of killing 13 of his comrades Nov. 5 when he opened fire at a soldier processing center at the Army [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – ACORN has filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a law cutting off federal funding to the organization. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on ACORN’s behalf Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. It claims the law was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual [...]
Syracuse.Com: Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens even as Rep. Bill Owens is sworn into House seat Washington — Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for his campaign: He was down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election [...]
BBC: Women are undergoing surgery to create perfect genitalia amid a “shocking” lack of information on the potential risks of the procedure, a report says. Research published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology also questions the very notion of aesthetically pleasing genitals. Operations to improve the appearance of the sex organs for both [...]
Washington Times: Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists — some of whom are under federal investigation — before last week’s rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday. Maj. Hasan made some of the contacts while visiting known jihadist chat rooms on [...]
New York Times: Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican with a maverick streak, has been censured by local Republican Party officials in his home state of South Carolina. The executive committee of the Charleston County Republican Party voted unanimously on Monday to rebuke Mr. Graham “for many of the positions he has taken that do not [...]
Politico: In a sign of deep discontent with the Washington political establishment, restive activists in both parties are taking out their frustrations on the Democratic and Republican campaign committees and hitting party leaders where it hurts — in the pocketbook. Recognizing the key role campaign cash plays in lubricating the Beltway machine, conservative and liberal [...]
Sky News: The family of the Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan is rejecting claims he was linked to Islamist radicals. A close relative spoke to Sky News in the West Bank town of Ramallah on condition of anonymity, afraid of reprisals against his family in America. With Hasan now out of a coma in [...]
Telegraph: Barrick shuts hedge book as world gold supply runs out Aaron Regent, president of the Canadian gold giant, said that global output has been falling by roughly 1m ounces a year since the start of the decade. Total mine supply has dropped by 10pc as ore quality erodes, implying that the roaring bull market [...]
Washington Post: Army psychiatrists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who supervised Maj. Nidal M. Hasan’s work as a psychiatric fellow tried to turn his growing preoccupation with religion and war into something productive by ordering him to attend a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, according to a Walter Reed [...]
McClatchy: WASHINGTON — As job losses continue to slow the nation’s economic recovery, labor experts and economists are urging Congress and the Obama administration to boost funding for a little-known program that 17 states are using to avert layoffs and keep workers in their jobs. Mass layoffs of 50 or more employees claimed 278,000 jobs [...]
Eikenberry hanging out with Kerry New York Times: WASHINGTON — The United States ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top American military commander there, has expressed in writing his reservations about deploying additional troops to the country, three senior American officials said Wednesday. The position of the ambassador, Karl W. Eikenberry, a retired [...]
