Feb 28, 2010 35 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation†of voters. Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the ...
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FOX News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue's massive role in this election year. Lawmakers sometimes must enact policies that, even if unpopular at the moment, will help the public, Pelosi said ...
Continue ReadingFeb 28, 2010 18 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Isn't that what Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather, Pt II" said to his brother Fredo before killing him? Van Jones, former special advisor for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, arrives at the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, February 26, 2010.
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Wall Street Journal: Move over, New Jersey, you're getting a run for your tax money as the nation's most dysfunctional state from the once great mecca of commerce and finance known as New York. Politics in the Empire State has become a carnival of spendthrifts, sexual miscreants and the all-purpose ethically challenged. In the latest sign that ...
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New York (AP) - - The tsunami from a deadly earthquake in Chile hit Japan’s main islands and even reached the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves didn’t cause significant damage. Hawaii and other Pacific islands in their path were also spared. In Japan, where hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from ...
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Kevin Jennings and his boys keep a very, very, very close eye on yours “By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to perform fellatio on one another.â€-- From a book entitled “Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A story about ...
Continue ReadingFeb 27, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Russia, China, Japan, New Zelalnd, Australia, Phillipines order citizens to flee Pacific coasts ahead of deadly wave of unknowable magnitude. WASHINGTON — A tsunami triggered by the powerful quake that rocked Chile was Saturday racing across the Pacific Ocean towards Hawaii and Asia at around 450 miles per hour, a quake expert said. Estimating the depth of ...
Continue ReadingFeb 27, 2010 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Hill: The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack. The president would then have the ability to ...
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HILO, Hawaii – A official at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says Hawaii "dodged a bullet" after a major earthquake sent powerful waves roiling around the Pacific. It still will be about an hour before officials will be willing to give an all-clear in Hawaii, but there were no immediate reports of major damage around the ...
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TALCA, Chile – One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and authorities said at least 214 people were dead. The magnitude-8.8 quake was ...
Continue ReadingFeb 27, 2010 25 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Is the anti-Christ here amongst us or what? Somebody just figure it out and spit it out. Let the prophets step forward, for we have more truly vital questions of our times and the times they shortly shall spawn, regardless of apocalypse, than ever before in the jagged, fiery and nearly indicepherable past ...
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Times Online: A boy steps boldly into the night traffic and waves a gun to bring the cars to a halt, clearing a path for a motorcycle which screeches into the intersection. Riding pillion is another boy, brandishing a machinegun. Later two teenagers, also riding pillion on motorbikes, flash their guns at other motorists; nearby, a boy ...
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Jerusalem Post: WASHINGTON – Defense Minister Ehud Barak stressed the need for tough sanctions against Iran as he wrapped up meetings with senior American officials, even as the two allies have disagreed on the severity of punitive measures in recent days. “What is really needed is significant sanctions, effective ones, within a time limit,†he said during ...
Continue ReadingFeb 26, 2010 27 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Daily Mail: The man who broke the Bank of England in 1992 is said to be at the centre of a plot to cash in on the demise of the euro. George Soros's investment business Soros Fund Management is among a group of heavyweight Wall Street hedge funds which have launched a series of massive bets against ...
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Caracas, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that Venezuela should boycott the Organization of American States' human rights body, saying the panel wrongly accused his government of political repression. Chavez took issue with a report issued this week by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which cited widespread human rights violations in Venezuela. ...
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The Hill: President Obama announced today his appointees to a recently created bipartisan fiscal commission, including prominent labor leader and Democratic activist Andy Stern. Stern, chairman of the Service Employees International Union, is one of the most powerful figures in the labor movement and has pushed aggressively for a number of Democratic causes, including healthcare reform. Other appointees ...
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Bloomberg: Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company under federal conservatorship, said it will seek $15.3 billion in aid from the U.S. Treasury after posting a 10th straight quarterly loss. A fourth-quarter net loss of $16.3 billion, or $2.87 a share, pushed the company to request its fifth draw on an unlimited lifeline from ...
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GENEVA – After two centuries of neutrality, Switzerland found itself in a bizarre and unprecedented situation Friday, facing a would-be "holy war" announced by Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. The Swiss government declined to comment on Gadhafi's latest salvo in a simmering diplomatic saga stemming from the Geneva police's 2008 arrest and brief detainment of his son, Hannibal, ...
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Politico: After months of Shermanesque denials, Indiana GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels’ admission that he’s now willing to consider a White House run has roused his long-standing, if unofficial, fan club. Republican admirers from Washington, Indiana and elsewhere, hoping to encourage their favorite Hoosier, are out in force to make the case that a balding, blunt, unprepossessing, listed-at-5-foot-7 ...
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