NY Times: WASHINGTON — David Axelrod was sitting at his desk on a recent afternoon — tie crooked, eyes droopy and looking more burdened than usual. He had just been watching some genius on MSNBC insist that he and President Obama’s other top aides were failing miserably and should be replaced. “Typical Washington junk we [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama has been clear. He wants no new nukes. Pentagon chief Robert Gates has been equally direct, advocating in recent years for a new generation of warheads. And nearly 14 months into their bipartisan-tinged partnership, Obama and Gates haven’t publicly reconciled their views. Some anti-nuclear activists suspect the pair still don’t see [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — In a surprise move ahead of Iraq’s parliamentary election, anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr made a rare public appearance Saturday in neighboring Iran, where he’s believed to have been living for the past two years. Speaking from Tehran, al-Sadr — flanked by two Iraqi flags — urged Iraqis to turn out in large [...]
Times Online: Former commanders accused Gordon Brown of deliberately misleading the Iraq inquiry after he blamed the military for failing properly to equip the Armed Forces for war. The Prime Minister denied putting the lives of British troops at risk by starving the military of equipment. In a confident performance yesterday at the Chilcot inquiry, [...]
Mama’s boy, whenevr she was out of Grand Central Station (family nickname for her bed) Pelosi: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi keeps insisting that the abortion fight isn’t relevant in the health care debate. Try telling that to her rank-and-file. Despite the speaker’s repeated denials, it looks like the final act in the year-long health care [...]
In the Bible, Gog and Magog are referred to as a hostile power that is ruled by Satan and will manifest itself immediately before an apocalyptic showdown.
Times Online: The heavily-criticised Snatch Land Rover is to be replaced with 200 new patrol vehicles in Afghanistan to protect troops from booby-traps, it was revealed as Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to the war-torn country. News of a £118 million investment in new vehicles and equipment for came after former commanders accused the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs. Even as the White House juggles several enormous issues at once, the public takes its cues about the president’s chief concern from how [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean couple addicted to an Internet game about raising a virtual child were arrested for neglecting their real 3-month-old daughter and letting her starve to death, news reports said. The couple spent between four and six hours every day at Internet cafes in Suwon, a city just south [...]
Obama Global Warming enforcer, EPA chief Lisa Jackson The EPA, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs. Fox News: The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level. The [...]
Grand Rapids Press: IONIA — To the little boy’s mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around. But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter. They [...]
Turkish-Armenian relations also jeopardized…”As President, I will recognize the Armenian genocide” – Barack Obama Times Online: One of the worst massacres of the 20th-century came back to haunt international politics yesterday when a powerful Washington panel voted to call the murder of about 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey “genocideâ€. After more than three hours of [...]
Washington Times; by Bill Gertz Recent statements by Chinese military officials are raising concerns among U.S. analysts that the communist government in Beijing is shifting its oft-stated “peaceful rise” policy toward an aggressive, anti-U.S. posture. The most recent sign appeared with the publication of a government-approved book by Senior Col. Liu Mingfu that urges China [...]
