CBS 2 Chicago: It’s a titanic battle, and it’s in the 3-D of reality: A Chicago alderman versus “Avatar.” Eleventh Ward Ald. James Balcer believes the new blockbuster movie is anti-military and anti-American. CBS 2′s Mike Parker reports. Balcer is a decorated Marine veteran of the Vietnam war, and now he’s going into battle against [...]
NBC Bay Area: The first step to legalize marijuana in California could happen Tuesday. Lawmakers will vote on Assembly Bill 390 — legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The assembly’s Public Safety Committee is expected to vote after a hearing that begins at 9 a.m. hearing. The bill, authored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Obama told labor leaders in a tense two-hour closed door tussle over whether to tax health care benefits that he backed the tax, which labor leaders vehemently oppose, but also supports efforts “to protect working men and women.” Their problem? Labor leaders say you can’t have it both ways. Some now [...]
Pitttsburgh-Tribune Review: Rep. Joe Sestak blames Democratic leaders for the plunge in public support for overhauling the health care system, saying Wednesday they failed to defend proposals that helped carry the party to victories in 2008. “They said it would be transparent. Why isn’t it?” said Sestak, a Delaware County Democrat, in a meeting with [...]
CNS News: Update: As of Monday morning, January 11, the petition has garnered more than 60,000 signatures, including those of conservative author Ann Coulter and former New York Gov. George Pataki (R), the petition’s organizers said. (CNSNews.com) – More than 60,000 people (new number), including members of Congress and three former presidential candidates, have signed [...]
CBS News: Click here for details on America’s rejection of Obama Care President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 46 percent, according to a new CBS News poll. That rating is Mr. Obama’s lowest yet in CBS News polling, and the poll marks the first time his approval rating has fallen below the 50 [...]
The Islamist group Islam4UK, which planned a march through Wootton Bassett, and its “parent” organisation, al-Muhajiroun, are to be banned under new legislation outlawing the “glorification” of terrorism. The home secretary, Alan Johnson, is expected to sign off a parliamentary order later this week proposing the ban, based on months of monitoring the output of [...]
Times Online: The father received the bearded mourners with dry eyes, his grief tempered by the conviction that his son, a martyr to the cause of al-Qaeda’s jihad, was already in Heaven. It is a common enough spectacle in the Islamist badlands of the Middle East or Central Asia — but yesterday’s funeral was not [...]
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he believes the slaying of one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut case. Abortion opponents [...]
CNS News: The White House rejected any comparison of racial comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to remarks made by former Senate leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), even as Republicans cited a double standard at play and called for Reid to resign his leadership post. A new book about the 2008 presidential race, Game [...]
New York Post: Mayor Bloomberg, the mayor who declared war on tobacco, sugary drinks and trans fats, has identified a new public enemy — now he wants to protect New Yorkers from salt. Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley launches a campaign today to cut New Yorkers’ sodium intake by one-fifth over five years. “If we [...]
ABC: The Obama administration has taken some heat and mockery for using the nebulous and non-economic term of jobs being “saved or created†by the $787 billion stimulus program. So it’s gotten rid of it. In a little-noticed December 18, 2009 memo from Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag the Obama administration is [...]
The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wasn’t involved in deliberations between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and American International Group Inc. over what the insurer should disclose in regulatory filings, a top bank official said in a letter to a U.S. lawmaker. Thomas Baxter Jr., general counsel at the New York [...]
The Daily Caller: by Andrew Breitbart The launch of the Daily Caller is a necessary step toward creating ideological parity in the all-too-clearly biased mainstream media. It is a good thing that you, Tucker, are admitting that you come to the table with certain ideological baggage, and my new site Big Journalism will be there [...]
NewsBusters: CNN made no accommodation for balance during a panel discussion segment on ObamaCare on Monday’s American Morning, bringing on two leftists- New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty- who both dismissed the Democrats’ lack of transparency in the congressional negotiations over the health care “reform†bills, and both shilled for [...]
The Washington Post: Sarah Palin, who regularly rips the media, is becoming a television pundit at a place where she’s likely to feel at home. A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor. Palin, who resigned as governor of Alaska last summer, [...]
From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.’s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age. Fox News: From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.’s top [...]
