WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession” until more Americans are back at work. Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax [...]
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations’ view that climate change is accelerating due to humans. “Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. In its place, officials said Democrats had tentatively [...]
From The Snooper Report Well? The forever cold that I have is keeping the wife and myself plus two damn cats up so I am here to write something. What I have to write has already been written but I counted no Grunt Speak in the verbiage. I will help that. Why? Because it is [...]
Boston (AP) – -President Obama’s Afghanistan surge is proving to be good politics – if you’re a Democrat who’s against it. In Massachusetts, all of the Democrats running in a special primary to fill Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat oppose the surge, as do the two top Democrats fighting for the nomination for Ohio’s U.S. [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — The two ranking Americans in Afghanistan, a soldier and a diplomat, publicly put aside their differences and told Congress on Tuesday that they fully supported President Obama’s new strategy to add 30,000 troops there to reverse Taliban gains and prepare Afghans to better control their own country. The officials, Gen. [...]
The Guardian: Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that [...]
Times Online: A blue van charged through a checkpoint in western Baghdad just after 10am, ran over a security guard while his colleague fired at the windscreen, and raced through an alley of concrete blast walls It then ploughed through a second barrier, crashing into the parking lot of the al-Karkh courthouse and exploding on [...]
KABUL (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived late Monday in Afghanistan with plans to assure officials and American troops there that the United States is committed to winning the war despite plans to begin pulling forces out in 2011. “We are in this thing to win,” Gates told reporters while traveling to Kabul, where [...]
Fox News: President Obama used his speech rolling out a stimulus-style jobs program Tuesday to point the finger at Republicans for allegedly facilitating the economic crisis and then foisting it off on his administration to solve. While praising his own team for pioneering “ambitious” financial reform and “sweeping” economic recovery initiatives, the president took some [...]
08 Dec 2009 15:09:51 GMT Source: Reuters UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations’ view that climate change is accelerating due to humans. “Nothing that has come out in the public as a result [...]
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Obama’s Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth, the man who won’t come even close to saving the world or keeping it safe for America SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – An envoy dispatched by President Barack Obama launched a mission Tuesday to coax North Korea to rejoin international talks on ending its nuclear programs amid warnings of strong [...]
Phil Kerpen in Fox News: President Obama, White House Climate Czar Carol Browner, and their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not waiting for Congress to pass cap-and-trade. Shrugging off the Climate-gate scandal, today EPA administration Lisa Jackson issues a so-called “endangerment finding,” paving the way for onerous greenhouse gas regulations to be shoehorned into the [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago man previously accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper was charged Monday with scouting targets for a militant Pakistani group for the 2008 attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people. U.S. prosecutors accused David Headley, the first American charged in the Mumbai plot, of performing surveillance for the militant [...]
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) – One of most stirring symbols of the American West — mustangs thundering freely across the range — could be heading east. The government wants to carry out what is believed to be the biggest-ever roundup of wild horses on federal land, moving as many as 25,000 mustangs and burros to pastures [...]
