The LA Times: This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say. Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism. Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated [...]
Lisa jackson is Obama’s right hand in the hoax called global warming. Today, the EPA handed itself complete control of American industry. If cap and trade faiils to pass, Obama can achieve the same thing through the EPA’s new powers as the absolute, unchecked dictator of American life. The Hill: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Under heavy pressure to get Americans back to work, President Barack Obama on Monday suggested using a suddenly available pot of money left over from the government’s bank bailout to help create more jobs. Obama, who will address the subject in a speech on Tuesday, has been struggling to trim the nation’s [...]
Washington Post: Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret Service had detailed for its internal use a lengthy list of security breaches dating to the Carter administration — including significant failures in the agency’s protection of the president. A summary of a secret 2003 report obtained by The [...]
Washington Post: Federal prosecutors charged a Chicago man Monday with carrying out surveillance on targets in India in advance of deadly terrorist attacks that wracked that nation’s business center last year and killed 170 people, including six Americans. David Coleman Headley, 49, is accused of conspiring to bomb targets in Mumbai, India; providing material support [...]
The Copenhagen Post: Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees, says the foreign ministry Although the COP15 climate conference is set to take place during the Christmas season, the Foreign Ministry believes the holiday and all its symbols should be kept well clear of the [...]
(AP) – – Several thousand students marched through the campus, many of them wearing surgical masks or scarves over their faces to protect against tear gas, photos from the scene obtained by the AP showed. Some wore green wristbands or waved green balloons, the color of the opposition movement led by Mir Hossein Mousavi. At [...]
Politico: COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate†Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here. “We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of [...]
Politico: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the rhetorical ante this morning by comparing opponents of health care reform to conservatives who tried to block emancipation and equal rights — prompting the head of the RNC to question his sanity. Reid, speaking on the floor of the Senate today, blasted GOP leaders who have urged [...]
BAGHDAD — An explosion near a school in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on Monday wounded scores of children, while attacks on Iraq’s security forces continued. Government officials gave contradictory accounts of the school casualty figures, with the death toll from the blast varying from one to 15 children and the number of wounded [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – The padlocks were snapped shut last week. Musicians were allowed to return briefly to pack up their keyboards and drums. Bartenders came back to store away the liquor and maybe take a few souvenirs of a freewheeling time in Baghdad’s nightlife of toasting, drinking and dancing. The closure of two popular spots [...]
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) – Even the most ardent fans of porn star Julie Meadows are unlikely, it seems safe to say, to have ever seen her like this. But there she is, the star of “Alice in Fetishland” and more than 200 other hardcore sex films, standing on a stage, dressed demurely in jeans, matching [...]
CNS News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the idea of a “global†tax on stock trades and other financial transactions, saying the estimated $150 billion in annual revenue from such a tax could be used to help fund more stimulus spending. At her weekly press briefing on Thursday, Pelosi said the financial transactions tax [...]
Times Online: The European Union today rejected the new carbon emission targets tabled by the United States and China and said they were much too weak to prevent catastrophic climate change. The dispute between the three main players at the Copenhagen climate change summit overshadowed the first day of negotiations and dashed hopes that a [...]
Politico: Senate Democrats in search of a health reform compromise Sunday zeroed in on a new alternative to a government-run insurance plan — signaling that the chances a final bill will include a pure public option are diminishing. The new idea — for the government to create a national health insurance plan similar to the [...]
