Los Angeles Times: Gov. Jan Brewer signs the bill that bans schools from teaching classes designed for students of a particular ethnic group. School districts may appeal the law, which becomes effective Dec. 3 A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering [...]
Agencie France Presse: Congress will press Afghan President Hamid Karzai to rein in corruption, believing it is holding his country back, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. Karzai is spending a week in Washington for talks to repair a rift with the Obama administration, which infuriated the Afghan leader with its public criticisms of [...]
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Washington Times: At her first opportunity to do so, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from campus during her tenure as dean of Harvard Law School, in protest over the Pentagon’s policies on gays. Ms. Kagan’s defenders insist the nominee was simply following the law as it worked its way through the courts, [...]
American Voice: 1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations – something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you! 2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty – No more Kennedy’s trolling Washington looking for [...]
CNBC: The US exposure to the European debt bailout could be at least $50 billion,
Washington (AP) – – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressed hope Tuesday that the worst is over in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — but the experts may beg to differ. Napolitano, on a trip to Alabama, said the spill is slowing down, and that tests indicated less oil and more [...]
Jerusalem Post: WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to move to direct negotiations as soon as possible, in a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday. Obama said the two sides needed to “negotiate seriously and in good faith,†and stressed his intention “to hold both sides accountable for actions [...]
Chris Cox, grandson of President Richard Nixon ATLANTA (AP) – The eldest grandson of former President Jimmy Carter has won a suburban Atlanta state Senate seat in a special election Tuesday night. Jason Carter became the first in his family to win elected office since his grandfather took the White House more than three decades [...]
GENEVA (AP) – Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration violates international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday. The basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S. and many other nations, relate to issues such as discrimination and the terms under which a person can be detained, [...]
BEIJING (AP) – An attacker hacked seven children and one teacher to death Wednesday and wounded 20 other people in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China, the latest in a string of savage assaults at the country’s schools. The slayings occurred despite a countrywide boost in security at schools, with gates and security [...]
Fox News: Over the weekend, delegates to the Utah Republican convention ousted Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT) from serving a fourth-term in Washington. Tuesday night, Democratic primary voters in West Virginia showed 28-year Congressional veteran Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) the door. Democratic state Sen. Mike Oliverio toppled Mollohan. Oliverio’s victory made Mollohan the first House casualty [...]
