New York Post: America’s jobs growth engine is being choked to death. A record 25 percent increase in the taxes against US small businesses — from costs associated with new health care law, to an increased Medicare tax, increased capital gains taxes and higher state and city taxes — is repealing any ability of these [...]
BANGKOK (AP) – Thousands of defiant anti-government demonstrators fanned out to other parts of Thailand’s capital on Monday after ignoring police orders to end their occupation of Bangkok’s paralyzed commercial district. Their major target was the Election Commission, where columns of “Red Shirts” threatened to storm the building unless the commission chief met them for [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Seismologists have raised the preliminary magnitude of an earthquake in northern Baja California from 6.9 to 7.2. U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones says the new magnitude of the 3:40 p.m. Sunday earthquake is still an estimate. The quake centered south of California’s border with Mexico was widely felt, swaying buildings [...]
World Net Daily: A U.S. Army flight surgeon who posted a video indicating his complete rejection of all orders from the military unless Barack Obama documents his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is now refusing an “unofficial” suggestion from the Army for a medical evaluation. WND reported this week the Army was hinting that [...]
Financial Times: Gordon Brown on Sunday said the large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks that would cost the financial sector billions of pounds a year but played down expectations that a deal could be struck at the next Group of 20 meeting in June. The UK prime minister, who held [...]
Fox News: Sen. Joe Lieberman warned Sunday that America’s trains, subways and buses are “vulnerable” to the kinds of horrific terror attacks that have struck London, Madrid and most recently Moscow, and said more needs to be done to protect U.S. riders. As the Department of Homeland Security rolls out new security measures for screening [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A strong earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border shook high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.9 magnitude quake struck in Baja California, about 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana.
The Hill: Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey. The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year. The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Authorities have identified the four men killed in a shooting at a San Fernando Valley restaurant, as the search for the gunman continues. In a statement Sunday, Los Angeles police named those killed as: 28-year-old Harut Baburyan; 26-year-old Sarkis Karadjian; 31-year-old Vardan Tofalyan; and 25-year-old Hayk Yegnanyan. No hometowns or other [...]
VENTERSDORP, South Africa (AP) – A South African farmer was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent wage dispute, police said, and his followers on Sunday blamed a fiery youth leader for spreading hate speech that led to his killing. Eugene Terreblanche’s violent death on Saturday came amid growing racial [...]
Baghdad (AP) – – Three blasts including two car bombs and a massive explosion in front of the Iranian embassy rocked Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and wounding over 160 people, officials said. The explosions occurred within minutes of each other, shattering windows in nearby buildings and sparking bursts of gunfire. Large [...]
Washington Post: CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — A cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate. The heavily tattooed [...]
Fox News: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man punched his estranged wife and stabbed her 70 times in the chest and head before his 13-year-old daughter pulled him away, disarmed him and fled with the knife, police said Saturday. The fatal attack came about one week after the suspect was charged with assaulting the same woman. [...]
Washington Times: Blog sites have been buzzing about the National Medical Device Registry, a new office in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that was created in the Obamacare reconciliation package. Concern centers on the registry’s authority to conduct “postmarket device surveillance activities on implantable medical devices,” including those that feature radio-frequency identification. The word [...]
An announcement by Iran’s nuclear chief of plans to build new atomic facilities in the country, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s newest warning regarding Israel’s demise, underline the need for “determined and effective international action,†a senior government official said on Saturday night. “Ahmadinejad’s continuous outbursts of extremist rhetoric only prove to the entire international community [...]
Telegraph: Americans have never been so disgusted with their politicians. More than three-quarters of Americans disapprove of Congress. President Barack Obama’s favourability ratings have slumped to below 50 per cent and he is no longer trusted or believed by many who voted for him.
Wall Street Journal: KABUL, Afghanistan—President Hamid Karzai lashed out at his Western backers for the second time in three days on Saturday, accusing the U.S. of interfering in Afghan affairs and saying the Taliban insurgency would become a legitimate resistance movement if the meddling doesn’t stop. Mr. Karzai, whose government is propped up by billions [...]
Times Online: Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the AWB or Afrikaner Resistence Movement, was hacked and bludgeoned to death by two of his black farm-hands in a dispute over wages on Saturday, according to South African police. The body of the controversial activist who rose to prominence in the 1980s was found on his bed [...]
