TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian security forces using batons and tear gas stormed anti-government marches in Tehran on Wednesday during state-sanctioned rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy, witnesses and state media reported. Witnesses told The Associated Press that security forces — mainly paramilitary units from the Revolutionary Guard — swept [...]
Times Online: Five British soldiers have been shot dead after a rogue Afghan policeman turned his weapon against a British training team inside a checkpoint in Helmand Province. The soldiers, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, died in the village of Shin Kalay in Nad-e’Ali district of Helmand Province [...]
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said. The pre-dawn seizure highlighted Israel’s accusations that Iran is arming its enemies. Israel offered no evidence to back up its claim that the weapons were meant [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage. Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in [...]
Fox News: Despite President Obama’s goal of signing healthcare reform legislation this year — one backed by assurances from congressional Democrats — Senate Democratic leaders Tuesday subtly acknowledged that’s not likely to happen as they started the delicate dance of walking back expectations. Putting the legislation together has proved exceedingly difficult, and most aides now [...]
AP: Christie Gives GOP Stunning Win In N.J. By Defeating Corzine, Former U.S. Attorney Deals Big Blow To President Obama, Who Carried The State Easily In 2008 NEW YORK (AP) ―In the end, all the stumping in the world from the President of the United States wasn’t going to stop regime change in New Jersey’s [...]
New Jersey (AP) – – The tight three-way race for governor of New Jersey, a state battered by high taxes and scarred by government corruption, was too close to call after balloting ended Tuesday, according to an Associated Press exit poll of voters. Voters had their pick from an unpopular incumbent who had help from [...]
Andy Stern was at the White House on August 6, just hours before Gladney was beaten up by the SEIU in order to send a message to Town Hall Protesters. Just like he ordered Fox News to be beaten up for protesting him. It’s called a pattern. It’s called an MO. Also on August 6, [...]
“Some voters indicated that their vote was meant to send a message to Obama” – Carl Cameron WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans wrested political control of Virginia from the Democrats on Tuesday as independent voters swung behind the GOP, a troubling sign for President Barack Obama and his party heading into an important midterm election year. [...]
John Fund: The state has received a flood of 180,000 absentee ballot requests. On some 3,000 forms the signature doesn’t match the one on file with county clerks. Yet citing concerns that voters would be disenfranchised, Democratic Party lawyer Paul Josephson wrote New Jersey’s secretary of state asking her “to instruct County Clerks not to [...]
