Politico: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd threatened Wednesday to end negotiations with Republicans on a financial regulatory reform bill if they continue to lead what he called a misinformation campaign based on Wall Street talking points. “My patience is running out,†Dodd said on the Senate floor. “I’ve extended the hand. I’ve written provisions [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats on Wednesday firmly seized on (so-called) financial reform as a politically winning issue at a time of economic uncertainty. Obama and Democrats appeared to be spoiling for a fight after a White House meeting with Republicans on the issue, daring the GOP to stand behind a reviving [...]
VATICAN CITY – Gay groups and politicians condemned Pope Benedict’s number two on Wednesday for calling homosexuality a “pathology” and linking it directly to sexual abuse of children. The comments made by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone during a visit to Chile, and the controversy they caused, were splashed on mainstream Italian newspapers on Wednesday. The French [...]
The Hill: The Library of Congress is poised to obtain all messages on the microblogging site Twitter dating back to March 2006, it said Wednesday. In a post on its official Twitter account the library said: Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow. Twitter has [...]
Fox News: Former New York Gov. George Pataki announced Wednesday the creation of a national organization that will work to repeal the Democrats’ health care overhaul, which he called a “horrific” and costly bungle. Pataki said his nonprofit group, Revere America, will develop a grassroots network and highlight national opposition to the health care law, [...]
Washington (AP) – – As Iran gets closer to fulfilling its nuclear ambitions, Republican lawmakers are pushing the Obama administration to stop whistling past the graveyard and get tough with the Islamic Republic. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while U.S. officials admitted [...]
NY Observer Politicker: Congressman Anthony Weiner bounded into a DJ booth at a fashionable Lower East Side bar one recent Wednesday night, grabbed the microphone with his left hand and unleashed his inner Borscht Belt. “Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d [...]
Wall Street Jouirnal: Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed one of the toughest pieces of immigration-enforcement legislation in the country, which would make it a violation of state law to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. It would also grant police the power to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of [...]
The Washington Post: World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog panel overseeing the financial bailouts says the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage aid program lags well behind the foreclosure crisis and leaves too many families out. The Congressional Oversight Panel says in a report released Wednesday that the administration projects only one million families will end up with lower monthly payments [...]
Homosexual child molester Timur Dykes PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A $1.4 million jury award to an Oregon man who filed a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts has become an unwelcome reminder that an American institution based on trustworthiness has to account for past problems. And there could be more financial damage to come, [...]
BEIJING (AP) – A series of strong earthquakes struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, trapping many more, officials said. Paramilitary police were forced to use shovels to dig through the rubble in a township where [...]
