Heritage Foundation This Friday, the tax payer funded Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) is hosting a briefing for Members of Congress and their staff on their new study: Online Town Hall Meetings: Exploring Democracy in the 21st Century. The CMF study consisted of 21 townhall meetings where Members of Congress and CMF provided a moderator: “spoke [...]
Nope, I am not bullting you. This is the story, the whole story, and everything included from the story. Let’s see if his plans to make the call are carried out like his plans to make a decision on sending more troops to A-stan. “Ya know? I meant to, but I got really busy…” Busy [...]
KBTX: Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash [...]
KABUL (AP) – Afghanistan’s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot Monday, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obama administration—which has been waiting for a government deemed legitimate to emerge in Kabul before announcing whether [...]
Politico: Democratic pundit Bob Beckel has been under contract with Fox News for six years. And in the midst of the White House war against the cable network, some of his liberal friends think that’s six years too many. They invited him to lunch the other day for an intervention: Why is Beckel — a [...]
Washington Post: Saturday’s decision by Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of tomorrow’s special Congressional election in upstate New York is a potentially big political moment that could help to return the GOP to first principles—or could lead to internecine ruin. Much will depend on how GOP leaders and conservative activists respond. Picked by GOP [...]
Keith Moon and Abdullah Abdullah Excerpted from The Guardian: The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, today pledged to stand by the next Afghan government as Afghanistan’s western backers pushed for a swift coronation of Hamid Karzai as president following the decision by his closest challenger to withdraw from the runoff vote. After meeting Karzai and [...]
Politico: The conservative coup in upstate New York did much more than lay bare the power of conservative activists: It exposed how little control GOP officials hold over this surging and formidable political movement. In the wake of conservatives’ role in forcing liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava out of Tuesday’s special election in New York’s 23rd [...]
Washington Times: Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway has emerged in internal Pentagon deliberations as the most outspoken opponent of permitting gay men and women to serve openly in the U.S. military, according to a former senior Pentagon official. Most of the senior brass hold deep reservations about President Obama’s pledge to end the [...]
Reputable NY sources indicate that Dede Scozzafava will shortly be announcing her “switch” to the Democrat Party. In the meantime, here’s a story touching on why she backed the Dem in NY 23 from Politico…. Politico: Fearful that the party had almost no chance of winning the Nov. 3 New York special election after Republican [...]
Discovery.Com: Oct. 29, 2009 — NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects. The point of the experiments is to understand how the harsh radioactive environment of space affects human bodies and behavior and what countermeasures can be [...]
Slumlord and slavemaster… Politico: White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week†that the rise of a Conservative Party challenger in a closely watched upstate New York House election shows that the Republican Party leadership is “becoming more and more extreme, and more and more marginalized.†“It’s rather telling when the [...]
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) – NASCAR stopped the bumping, at least for a while. There was nothing that could be done about the blocking. In the end, Sunday looked like most every other event at Talladega Superspeedway: There was a surprise winner, two harrowing accidents, angry drivers and a frustrated fans over a vanilla race at [...]
