NewsBusters: According to The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and other right-of-center stars that regularly dominate the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestsellers List are – or should be – in a league of their own. No, that isn’t Arianna Huffington’s blog heaping praise on conservative authors. It’s a literal suggestion. With [...]
I guess Robert Byrd would be out of luck. The Washington Times: Sen. Jim DeMint says Washington politicians are like fruit on the vine: the longer they hang around, the more rotten they get. The South Carolina Republican – hearkening back to the days of the party’s “Contract with America” – on Tuesday offered a [...]
HAVANA, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ally, the Soviet Union. In documents seen by Reuters, government officials have [...]
Patterico: I couldn’t make up something this stupid if I tried. Glenn Greenwald: Isn’t it fairly clear that the term “terrorism†is being applied to what Hasan did due to his religion rather than the acts themselves? It’s about as clear as your prose, Greenwald. Put another way, as ThinkProgress’ Matt Duss put it: “the [...]
Fox News: Under pressure from the White House, Majority Leader Harry Reid says he plans to bring a health care reform package to the floor of the Senate next week, and his goal is to see it passed by the end of the year. But he faces an uphill climb in getting the required 60 [...]
Jerusalem Post: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media. Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made. Speaking in Istanbul at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and [...]
NY Post: A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday. Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges. McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in [...]
Fox News: Investigators would have been “crucified” over First Amendment rights if they had launched a full-scale probe into e-mails Fort Hood massacre suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly sent to a radical imam, a government investigator told Fox News. The claim comes as the squabble grows among officials in different branches of law [...]
Politico: The conventional wisdom in Washington and in most of the rest of the world is that the roaring Chinese economy is going to pull the global economy out of recession and back into growth. It’s China’s turn, the theory goes, as American consumers — who propelled the last global boom with their borrowing and [...]
Washington Times: An insurance plan championed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that would help elderly or disabled people avoid nursing homes ironically adds yet another sticking point to the comprehensive health care reform plans for which the Massachusetts Democrat fought through much of his career. The Community Living Services and Support (CLASS) Act is designed [...]
KABUL (AP) — Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week as they tried to recover airdropped supplies that fell into a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. The two paratroopers, from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disappeared in Badghis province, a [...]
Y-Net: Taking steps towards statehood? The Palestinian Authority is looking into the possibility of turning to the Security Council and urging it to adopt a resolution recognizing the Palestinian state’s borders, senior Fatah member Mohammad Dahlan said Tuesday. The PA will seek a state in line with the 1967 borders, including east Jerusalem, Dahlan said. [...]
