Politico: To finish the Wall Street reform bill, Democrats are resurrecting a casualty of Washington’s hyperpartisan culture: the House-Senate conference committee, in which lawmakers from both parties will hash out differences between the two chambers’ bills. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) even wants C-SPAN there, he said, to capture their decision making [...]
Fox News: President Obama’s oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been hampered by his relationship to BP, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday in the opening salvo of a verbal cage match with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Palin suggested that the White [...]
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Washington Post: HONOLULU — Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew up – the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress. Djou’s victory was a blow to [...]
Military and civilian teams search homes and offer reconstruction aid in a Kandahar district. The operation is a preview of a wider summer campaign. Reporting from Kandahar, Afghanistan U.S. soldiers and Afghan police early Saturday swarmed a dense Taliban stronghold of mud-brick homes on the western shoulder of Kandahar, conducting searches and promising aid in [...]
Daily Mail: More than 70 years after the Hindenburg disaster ended the golden airship era, giant blimps will take to the skies again with the launch of the world’s largest inflatable craft. The pioneering Bullet 580 is a 235ftlong and 65ft in diameter ship that can lift payloads of 2,000lbs up to 20,000ft in the [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months ago. The White House’s mid-term election strategy is becoming clear – pit the Democrats of 2010 against the Republicans [...]
From Pat: A personal military source on the scene described the attack to me as a somewhat comical, in the sense of being hopeless and pathetic, suicide wave attack on the base. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban claimed responsibility Sunday for a nighttime assault on NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan. Insurgents firing rockets, [...]
The Hill: Republicans were forced to “back down” from blocking Wall Street reform, according to a fundraising letter sent by the president. In the e-mail to his supporters, President Barack Obama wrote that pressure on lawmakers forced Republicans to “back down” from blocking the legislation, which the Senate passed Thursday. “This movement proved again that [...]
Washington Post: The art work is the product of Pete Von Sholly who storyboards feature films and draws graphic novels. “I don’t have anything against conservatives or Republicans or “tea partyers†… per se,†he writes in the introduction. “But … some people will say ANYTHING in their frothing frenzy of freak out, no matter [...]
