Politico: COPENHAGEN –Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plan to address negotiators at international climate talks in Copenhagen next week. The three leaders are listed in a line-up of more than 180 government officials published in a United Nations schedule of speakers. Each head of state will [...]
Times Online: Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies [...]
BBC: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan. He suffered two broken teeth, a minor nose fracture and cuts to his lip after being struck by a man wielding a souvenir model of the city’s cathedral. Mr Berlusconi, [...]
Sky News: Police say 968 people have been arrested during a climate change protest in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Hundreds of youths dressed in black threw bricks and smashed windows as at least 30,000 people demonstrated in the centre of the city as world leaders debate global warming. The rioters, whose faces were covered, went [...]
The American Spectator: Sometimes you must wonder how some members of the establishment media live with themselves. Their double standards are so egregious, as is their refusal to observe the boundaries between straight news and opinionizing (to coin a word), and as are their utter contempt for and viciousness against those anywhere to the political [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is poised to clear away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill rewarding most federal agencies with generous budget boosts. The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year’s unfinished budget work – only a $626 billion Pentagon spending measure would remain – into a 1,000-plus-page catchall spending [...]
TCS Daily: With unemployment at its highest levels in more than 25 years, the Obama Administration is trying to show that it is focused on jobs. Last week’s White House “Jobs Summit” brought together business, labor, academic and environmental leaders to talk about how the government can foster job creation. Unfortunately, the summit agenda repeated [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House accused senior Republicans on Friday of “rooting against” recovery and a top congressional critic charged President Barack Obama was pursuing a “job-killing” agenda in a fresh round of political bickering over the economy. The latest partisan sniping followed Obama’s stepped-up push this week to curb 10 percent U.S. unemployment [...]
IDontAgree: IDONTAGREE.COM and HUFFPOSTBLOG.COM has learned today that House Republicans on Tuesday accused the Obama administration of covering up criminal activities of the embattled community activist group ACORN, saying that the president has used the group as an illegal political tool to help himself and other Democrats get elected. “The current administration is fast becoming, [...]
Big Government: The Land of Lincoln may still be licking its wounds–and certain real estate transactions–over Chicago’s losing the Olympics to Rio, but the Obama Administration has delivered up a small consolation prize: the state’s very own federal prison for terrorists. Big Government has received what is claimed to be a leaked DOJ memo that [...]
News Busters: A Stanford professor with ties to Nobel Laureate Al Gore and the growing ClimateGate scandal used United Nations security officials at the climate conference in Copenhagen to halt questions about e-mail messages obtained from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit. Dr. Stephen Schneider was speaking at the Bella Centre Thursday when Irish journalist Phelim McAleer [...]
And not a moment too soon. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open [...]
FOX News: Senate Democrats’ plan to expand Medicare — a program careening toward bankruptcy — likely would hasten the demise of the health care safety net for seniors and spell financial disaster for consumers and health care providers who already are getting shortchanged by the program, critics say. Under the plan, uninsured individuals ages 55 [...]
FOX News: WASHINGTON — The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession. The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten [...]
CNS News: Capitol Hill – Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told CNSNews.com she would leave it up to the “constitutional lawyers†to explain exactly where Congress gets the constitutional authority to force Americans to buy health insurance, the central mandate in both the Senate and House health care bills. Landrieu, in her second term as a [...]
Free heathcare for all! Until you need it… Washington (AP) – A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates. The legislation that originally passed the Senate health committee last summer [...]
PThe Weekly Standard: The Pakistani government has denied that Mullah Omar and the “Quetta Shura” — his executive ruling council for Afghanistan — was based in Pakistan. That is until Pakistan’s defense minister said the Quetta Shura is indeed in Pakistan. But rest assured it is not a threat. From Dawn News reports: The government [...]
National Review: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) recently played the most shopworn trick in the liberal playbook. While debating health-care “reform,†he ferociously deployed the race card. Reid claimed last Monday that Obamacare’s opponents were like those who “dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early. Let’s wait. Things aren’t [...]
