CBS News: It’s been an ugly few years for the United States Postal Service. The quasi-government agency announced this week that it lost $3.8 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30th. It also delivered less mail – 26 billion fewer pieces less, a nearly 13 percent drop from the previous year. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the majority Democrats’ newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, cuts in services for the elderly and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states. Despite the criticism, indications were growing that Democrats would prevail on an initial [...]
Accuracy In Media: The liberal media’s mission to destroy Sarah Palin in the heat of her ongoing book tour ensnared an unwitting a 17-year-old Palin fan in Grand Rapids, Mich. Norah O’Donnell of MSNBC set up the girl, Jackie Seals, by staging a confrontation with her over Palin’s views on last year’s government bailout of [...]
Tulsa World: WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress’ most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor. “I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the [...]
Phoenix Examiner: Nidal Hasan, the Muslim U.S. Army Major accused of the mass killings at Fort Hood, is listed as participant in the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute’s (HSPI) Presidential Transition Task Force Report. While this is not entirely surprising, given Hasan’s former position in the Army, it raises significant questions about White [...]
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ABC News: United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period [...]
NewsBusters: The Wall Street Journal’s intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s National Broadband Plan. With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. The groundwork for government information totalitarianism – [...]
ABC News: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here’s a case study. On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.†The section spends two pages defining which “states†would qualify, saying, [...]
Fox News: CHICAGO — “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” an iconic broadcast that began as a local Chicago talk show and grew over two decades into the foundation of a media empire worth billions, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey’s production company said Thursday night. Winfrey, who from a [...]
House Republican Leader: House Republicans today launched a new effort to change the way Congress works, calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to schedule an immediate vote on five common-sense reforms that will bring greater transparency to the legislative process and make Congress more open and accountable to the people it serves. The House [...]
