Financial Times: Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China. The reason that the Google case is so [...]
The Hill: Democrats are bracing for a loss in Tuesday’s special election in deep-blue Massachusetts. The latest polling in the race shows Republican Scott Brown with leads in the single digits, but some pollsters are predicting the swings in momentum suggest he’ll win Tuesday by double digits. That would be a stunning result for Democrats. [...]
Times Online: Six days after the Port-au-Prince earthquake large areas of the city remain untouched by the global aid effort as bottlenecks continue to clog the airport and looting threatens to descend into wholesale violence. Convoys of lorries headed for the city’s worst-hit areas last night but there were signs they had come too late [...]
SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) — Five Americans being held in Pakistan on suspicion of terrorism alleged they were being tortured in comments shouted to reporters Monday as they were driven from court. Police and prison authorities denied any ill-treatment, and said the men did not bring up their complaints in court. The allegations could add to [...]
The Independent: The next generation of Conservative MPs do not share David Cameron’s enthusiasm for making climate change a priority for a Conservative government, according to a survey to be published tomorrow. The poll of 141 Tory candidates in winnable seats found that “reducing Britain’s carbon footprint” was rated the lowest of 19 possible priorities [...]
The Weekly Standard: Barack Obama has now been center stage for two years—one as a presidential candidate (and president elect) and one as president. Americans have begun to take their measure of the man, judging him to have been a remarkable success in his first role and struggling in his second. Obama recently awarded himself [...]
The Wall Street Journal: LONDON–Two terror suspects won the right Monday to seek compensation from the British government over the restrictions imposed upon their activities since 2006. The High Court ruling delivers another blow to Britain’s system of so-called “control orders,” which officials say is necessary to keep tabs on terror suspects who can’t be [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issued fresh threats Monday against the U.S. and its Mideast allies, promising to retaliate against a surge of strikes launched in the past month against its leaders and safe havens in Yemen. The terrorist group also denied statements made by Yemeni authorities late last week [...]
Real Clear Politics: If Scott Brown should defeat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special election tomorrow, it will be a fitting metaphor for the political trajectory of President Obama’s first year in office. A year ago Democrats were talking about Obama as the next Franklin Roosevelt, and suggesting that they were on the cusp of [...]
Washington Alert: January 18th, 2010, Woburn, MA—116, 483 registered Massachusetts voters are dead, according to an analysis conducted by Aristotle International, Inc. a software and digital database developer. As reported by CNS News, “In Massachusetts, 116,483 registered voters are dead, 3.38 percent of the state’s total of registered voters. Another 538,567, or 15.6 percent, had [...]
Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes: 1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 “Ten Most Corrupt” list [...]
BEIJING (AP) — International journalists in China said Monday that their Google e-mail accounts have been hacked in attacks similar to the ones against human rights activists that the search giant cited as a reason for considering pulling out of the country. In announcing a possible exit from China last week, Google did not specify [...]
The Daily Mail: If you think life is a grind and you’d rather be doing anything other than going to work, you’re not alone. Today is officially Blue Monday – the most miserable day of the year. A combination of Arctic temperatures, Christmas debt and the next pay day feeling like it’s months away leaves [...]
