SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday it was investigating along with local authorities a possible “hazardous material threat” at an Internal Revenue Service building in Farr West, Utah. U.S. In a statement e-mailed to Reuters, spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic Bertram said the FBI had evacuated the building, adding she could [...]
Man, I would just love to grab this by her botoxed face and introduce her to how America feels about her via my kneecap. CNSNews.com: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that she is running the most ethical and honest Congress in history. At the same time, however, she indicated she will not [...]
NewsBusters: These must be really desperate times for the Democrats, if the syndicated Chris Matthews Show that was aired over the weekend is any indication, as both the host and one of the guests claimed Barack Obama would need to tap into military, musical and even mystical powers to get a health care reform bill [...]
FOX News: Democrats appear to be gambling that a perceived lull in Tea Party activism, combined with an eight-month window to the November midterm election, is going to buy them enough time to muster the simple majorities they need in the Senate and House to give President Obama at least partial victory in his push [...]
The Washington Examiner: Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said his agency had yet to locate any of the suspected illegal immigrants. According to an affidavit filed [...]
GOP Leader: Americans are asking “where are the jobs?†but out-of-touch Washington Democrats continue to focus on a massive government takeover of health care that is destroying jobs right now through the uncertainty it is causing for small businesses. Now Washington Democrats are getting ready to use a toxic legislative maneuver to try and ram [...]
The Washington Post: The suicide bomber behind the Dec. 30 attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan claims in a posthumously released recording that he lured U.S. and Jordanian intelligence officers into a trap by sending them misleading information about terrorist targets as well as videotapes he made of senior al-Qaeda leaders. The bomber, [...]
WERNERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) ― An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a “temperamental” pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner’s office said Monday. Ricky Weinhold, of Reinholds, was attacked Saturday by a 1-ton bull on a farm where he leased barn space in Wernersville, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, [...]
Politico: Charles Rangel met with New York Democrats on Saturday in an effort to save embattled Gov. David Paterson. But the meeting could just as easily have been about Rangel himself. The House ethics committee decision to admonish Rangel for taking two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean has turned up the heat on the powerful [...]
The Washington Post: Time magazine called “The Hurt Locker” “a near-perfect war film,” but Ryan Gallucci, an Iraq war veteran, had to turn the movie off three times, he says, “or else I would have thrown my remote through the television.” Critics adore the film and it has been nominated for nine Oscars — a [...]
The Guardian: Barack Obama is still struggling to kick smoking, according to his first medical examination since becoming president. Obama is sensitive about his cigarette habit and tetchy with reporters who raise it. But after his 90-minute medical at the Navy hospital outside Washington yesterday morning, his doctors confirmed he had not yet managed to [...]
The LA Times: As part of the deep cuts announced this week at ABC News, the network plans to close all of its physical bureaus around the country except Washington and halve the number of its domestic correspondents. ABC News President David Westin confirmed in an interview Friday that the network’s ranks of bureau correspondents, [...]
