The Hill: Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are facing a mini-rebellion against their message on healthcare reform. Every GOP lawmaker rejected the Democrats’ bill last month, but the party is now split on whether to call for a full repeal of the new law. Dozens of Republican lawmakers have signed on to bills that would [...]
Fox News: President Obama’s decision to reverse 65 years of U.S. nuclear weapons policy and drop most of the nation’s deterrence capacity has alarmed critics who say they fear that the United States will now be more vulnerable to attack from would-be nuclear nations. By changing the policy, the Obama administration hopes the United States [...]
Rasmussen: Voters agree that big money talks in politics but apparently not as loudly as big media. Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters continue to think that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions, identical to the finding in August 2008. Thirty-two percent (32%) say big contributions are the [...]
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The Hill: The Federal Communications Commission was evacuated Wednesday because of an apparent bomb threat, forcing staffers to linger outside the building in 90-degree heat for over two hours. The building in Southwest Washington was evacuated around 9:30 a.m., according to FCC spokesman David Fiske. He said employees returned to the building around 11:30 a.m. [...]
Fox News: Timing is everything. And for the out-in-the-open feud between President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the timing is very, very bad. Questions are being raised about the way the Obama administration is handling its public clash with Karzai, given that 30,000 U.S. troops are surging into the country on the president’s orders, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI arrested a northern California man Wednesday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Charges against the man have yet to be disclosed, but they are expected to be filed in federal court in California. Several [...]
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – Thousands of protesters furious over corruption and spiraling utility bills seized internal security headquarters, a state TV channel and other levers of power in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday after government forces fatally shot dozens of demonstrators and wounded hundreds. A revolution in the Central Asian nation was proclaimed by leaders of the [...]
Shady… Wall Street Journal: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was appointed by Congress to shed light on the causes of the 2008 Wall Street collapse, but today the panel and Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan were left in the dark. Nearly three hours into Greenspan’s testimony on Capitol Hill, the committee room was plunged [...]
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Washington Post: CNN’s decision to embed with the Tea Party Express as it traveled toward D.C. — Fox News did the same thing last year, in the run-up to the Sept. 12 taxpayer march on Washington — befuddled the right and left alike. Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher speculated that the network was out for “nuggets of [...]
Agencie French wussies: General Motors posted a post-bankruptcy 2009 net loss of 4.3 billion dollars Wednesday but said it hoped to achieve profitability in 2010. The new GM, which emerged from bankruptcy protection on July 10, achieved global revenues of 57.5 billion dollars and ended the year with net cash of one billion dollars. “As [...]
