Agencie France Presse: The shooting rampage at Fort Hood was “an act of terrorism,” a senior US official said on Friday, employing a phrase that the Obama administration has previously avoided to describe the attack. The administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the November 5 shooting spree that left 13 dead at [...]
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BOSTON (AP) – His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley amid release of a poll showing an edge for the Republican Party in the race to fill a Senate seat Democrats have held for over a half-century. Democratic officials [...]
Politico: GOP candidates across the country are rallying behind Republican Scott Brown’s long-shot bid in the Massachusetts Senate special election, flooding his campaign with cash, ground troops and moral support as the unexpectedly tight race enters its final days. Some campaigns are blasting e-mails to supporters, prodding them to cut checks. Others are temporarily turning [...]
The Washington Post: ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A U.S. missile strike might have killed the top Taliban leader in Pakistan on Thursday even as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani told Parliament that the drone attacks were a threat to the nation’s sovereignty and could “undermine the war on terror.” The attack came during a three-day visit [...]
Snooper Report here…Stolen Valor. How contemptible is this? Here is a picture of a web site which is dedicated to the outing of one each Tiger Bo Dawson, an alleged Lt Colonel of the United States Marine Corp. He isn’t a Former Marine. He is a Wanna Be Former Marine and I sure do hope [...]
New York Post: Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax†on high-cost health-care plans until 2018. The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while [...]