Davy Crockett, real Texas hero unafraid of Mexicans AUSTIN, Texas — Arizona’s tough new illegal immigration enforcement law would not be right for Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday, upholding the state’s long-held tradition of rejecting harsh anti-immigrant policies. The Arizona law will require local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their [...]
Washington Post: All new cars would have to be equipped with “black boxes” that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress. The draft of a bill was released Thursday by one of the House committees investigating Toyota’s [...]
Do I look like an angry, shady, shifty, lying, profiteering scientific fraud to you? Fox News: A legal battle is heating up faster than the planet for embattled climatologist Michael Mann. First word emerged that the inspector general for the National Science Foundation would look into the Penn State panel reviewing the climate scientist, who [...]
Sky News: Belgium is set to become the first ever country in Europe to ban the burkha being worn in public places. The vote in Parliament for a nationwide ban on Islamic clothes or veils that do not allow the wearer to be fully identified was almost unanimous. The full-face niqab and burkha worn by [...]
The Atlantic: President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana’s coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to question speed of Obama’s response. Hannity: “They did nothing for nine days.” … Why is this oil [...]
EU Times: A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s [...]
