Archive for May, 2010

CNN Tours Shanghai’s Hot New ‘Obama Club’
Andrew Breitbart Debuts “Irony Mustache” On MSNBC, Slams Leftists En Re:  Kagan’s Sexuality

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Fox News: Parents in Illinois are outraged over a move by a local high school to scrap its girls basketball team’s trip to Arizona over the Grand Canyon State’s new immigration law. The Highland Park High School varsity basketball team has been selling cookies for months to raise money for a tournament in Arizona. Now, [...]

“Economics 101″: <b> The Consequences of Excessive Government Spending</b>

Los Angeles, back when it was worth a f- CBS News: Los Angeles on Wednesday became the largest city yet to boycott Arizona over its tough new law targeting illegal immigration in a move that likely will affect some $8 million in contracts with the state. The City Council voted 13-1 to bar Los Angeles [...]

Fox News: In February 2009, after two wars and years of confusion over the best way to interrogate a terrorist, the Obama administration created a special unit called the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) to relearn how to get critical information from suspects in custody. Fifteen months later and in the wake of the [...]

Politico: Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, one of her best friends told POLITICO Tuesday night, responding to persistent rumors and innuendo about the Supreme Court nominee’s personal life. “I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” said Sarah Walzer, Kagan’s roommate in law school and a close friend [...]

The Hill: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) insisted Wednesday that multiple Republicans are interested in the climate and energy bill he unveiled with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). “The President and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid are with us,” Kerry said at an afternoon press conference on the bill. “And I have heard even several Republicans in [...]

Pence: We Didn’t Ask the EU to Bail Out New Jersey or California
Laura Bush Tells Larry King She Supports Gay Marriage, Abortion Rights

(Reuters) – The United States posted an $82.69 billion deficit in April, nearly four times the $20.91 billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record for that month, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday. It was more than twice the $40-billion deficit that Wall Street economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast and [...]

Newsweek Writer: Actor Is Too Gay to Play Straight

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Lawyer With Cerebral Palsy Faces Trial for Touching Judge

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration argues in its first court response to a challenge against the new health care law that Congress can require Americans to buy health insurance. The argument by Justice Department lawyers comes in a lawsuit that a conservative group, the Thomas More Law Center, filed in federal court in Detroit [...]

The Hill: Obama says ‘perceived tensions’ are ‘overstated’ as Karzai visits President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday their relationship has never been stronger, and reports of tension between them are “overstated.” Obama, meeting with Karzai at the White House, said he is confident his strategy in Afghanistan “will succeed,” even as [...]

The Hill: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said the energy and climate bill he is unveiling Wednesday would block offshore oil-and-gas drilling while the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and oil spill is investigated. “It places a moratorium on current drilling until we know what happened in the Gulf, and then we proceed forward,” he said [...]

NY Daily News: It just got a little easier for a transgender person to work at American Eagle Outfitters – at least on paper. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has forced the flannel and khaki outpost to make some changes, including nixing a rule about employee “personal appearance” that banned men from wearing women’s clothing and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track. “What I’ve tried to emphasize is the fact that there is going to be some hard fighting over the next several [...]

ABC News: Wisconsin Republicans have yet to nominate a candidate for governor. Indeed, the state’s primary is not until Sept. 14. But two national GOP heavyweights — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — are bullish on the prospects of Scott Walker, the self-described, brown-bag-packing county executive of Milwaukee. “The [...]

<b>“For It”:</b> San Diego Muslim Student Wants Second Holocaust