MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that’s who. Ain’t kidding. Put away those paper bags forever: Drew Brees and the Saints are NFL champions, rallying to beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 Sunday night in one of pro football’s most thrilling title games. Brees tied [...]
FOX News: How thoroughly did Penn State University investigate a top climate scientist who brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to the school? A growing number of critics say they hardly looked at all. Penn State ended a two-month probe into the work of Michael Mann, a top climate scientist whose “hockey stick” [...]
Politico: Moderate Democrats, coping with the electoral fallout of President Barack Obama’s grand and ground-down legislative ambitions, have a message for their leaders: Stop supersizing us. If the first year of Obama’s term was dominated by the so-called Big Bang push for enormous, politically risky initiatives — the stimulus, cap and trade and health care [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill to tighten financial regulation ground to a halt in the Senate on Friday, casting one of the top domestic policy priorities of the Obama administration in a stark political light. After months of public debate and closed-door talks, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, the Democrats’ chief [...]
The criticism and trash talking are starting to work. She’s butt-hurt, starting to fall apart at the seams. Keep it up, and she may not WANT to run in November.
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WASHINGTON – After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in Congress. His remarks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday night sounded contradictory at times, complicating congressional leaders’ effort to revive health care legislation as Democrats hunger for guidance [...]
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The Hill: The Tea Party convention kicked off today in Nasvhille, and former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) opened up the convention with some controversial remarks about the 2008 election. “People who could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,” Tancredo said during [...]
MADISON, Ala. (AP) – A school official says a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head by another student inside an Alabama middle school and is in critical condition. Madison City Schools Superintendent Dee Fowler said no one else at Discovery Middle School was hurt. She says it’s unclear what prompted the gunfire Friday afternoon. [...]
ABC: Michelle Obama has earned accolades for making healthy living and eliminating childhood obesity a priority as first lady. But when it came down to personalizing the issue in relation to her daughters, the remarks touched a nerve with some, and praise from others. The first lady made the issue of healthy eating personal last [...]
CHICAGO (AFP) — The US transportation chief’s public rebukes of Toyota’s handling of a massive safety recall have raised eyebrows, given the US government’s major stake in rivals General Motors and Chrysler. “The optics are terrible because — and this is what happens when a government owns a company – the two companies that are [...]
NBC: The District, Maryland and Virginia are under snow emergencies as heavy snow races toward the Washington region. The closing and cancellations have already been made in advance of the winter storm, which is expected to pound the area through Saturday. The National Weather Service has upgraded a winter storm watch to a winter storm [...]
ABC: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel took the online pledge to end the use of the R-word between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. yesterday. You can find it on the list of pledges on the website http://www.r-word.org/. Emanuel apologized to Tim Shriver, the CEO of the Special Olympics after the Wall Street Journal reported [...]
National Review Online: “Rahm felt very, very strongly that it was a mistake to prosecute the 9/11 people in the federal courts, and that it was picking an unnecessary fight with the military-commission people,†the informed source said. But it was about Gitmo and having Lindsay Graham on the White House side: “Rahm had a [...]
Politico: The health care bill is in trouble, but a series of narrow deals — each designed to win over a wavering senator or key interest group — is alive and well, despite voter anger over the parochial horse-trading that marked the rush toward passage before Christmas. With the exception of Nebraska Democratic Sen. Ben [...]
