Jan 29, 2010 19 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Nancy Pelosi is a fiscal terrorist. Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft for Congressional Delegations (CODELs). According to the documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: WICHITA, Kan. — Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was justified to save the lives of unborn children. The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
"We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal..." GatewayPundit: Um, wrong founding document, Mr. President. It is in our Declaration of Independence that we read: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: CAIRO — Usama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming. The Al Qaeda leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Mail: Scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' email scandal broke the law when they refused to give raw data to the public, the privacy watchdog has ruled. The Information Commissioner's office said University of East Anglia researchers breached the Freedom of Information Act when handling requests from climate change sceptics. But the scientists will escape ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABC: If church attendance is one measure of a man's faith, then President Obama may appear to have lost some of his. The first family, once regular churchgoers, have publicly attended services in Washington just three times in the past year, by ABC News' count, even bypassing the pews on Christmas Day. Obama quit Chicago's embattled ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Mercury News: SACRAMENTO — State Controller John Chiang issued a stern warning Friday about California's cash reserves, telling legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger they must act on nearly $9 billion in budget cuts the governor is seeking by March — or the state will run out of cash to pay its bills. Without making those cuts ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 23 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NY Daily News: The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan. The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 22 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Yes, it's a good thing that something is going to be done about childhood obesity. It's only fitting that She-Hulk is being put in charge of it too. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Post: The outerwear company that mounted a giant billboard in Times Square showing President Barack Obama in one of its jackets, prompting a call of protest from the White House, says it's finally removing the offending sign on Wednesday - and it hopes Sarah Palin will agree to take Obama's place.
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
MSNBC: This winter's extreme weather — with heavy snowfall in some places and unusually low temperatures — is in fact a sign of how climate change disrupts long-standing patterns, according to a new report by the National Wildlife Federation. It comes at a time when, despite a wealth of scientific evidence, the American public is increasingly skeptical ...
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National Review Online: Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: The Senate voted 70-30 to reappoint Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Earlier, senators voted 77-23 to end debate, clearing the way for a final vote. During more than two hours of debate on the Senate floor, Bernanke backers warned that voting him down risked sparking ...
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