Washington Post: The economic recovery that began a year ago increasingly appears to be on shaky footing, driving financial markets downward and clouding the debate over economic policy.
The Independent: The two scientists stood shoulder to shoulder with President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White House, the same room where the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark unfurled their map of the Northwest Territories for Thomas Jefferson. Like Lewis and Clark 200 years before them, the scientists were explorers [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss [...]
New York Times: REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A “drug-free Parliament by 2020.†Iceland’s Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jon Gnarr, to satirize his country’s political system, ran a campaign that was one big joke. Or was it? Last month, in [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama arrived in Canada for an international economic summit Friday armed with a new financial reform package nearly ready for his signature. The sweeping changes included in the conference report deal reached early Friday morning are expected to serve as a basis for reforms in other countries, and Obama will be [...]
Politico: As President Barack Obama reaffirms his Afghanistan policy, he’s also emboldening critics in Congress who think he should use a shake-up in commanding generals to change the course of what they believe is an intractable war. “I think he has to reassess the strategy,†Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said Thursday. “I can’t believe for [...]
The Telegraph: Royal Marines are being moved to Sangin in Afghanistan amid a battle for the town from Taliban snipers and insurgents trying to shoot down helicopters, the new US commander of British troops has said. Major General Richard Mills of the US Marine Corps, said the “significance of this summer is not lost on [...]
Times Of London: Thousands of foreign workers will be turned away from Britain next month when the Government introduces an immigration cap for the first time. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is to announce a nine-month temporary limit to prevent a last-minute influx as workers from outside the EU try to beat permanent new controls [...]
Britain’s Prince Harry joined cadets training at West Point military academy as he started a 3-day visit to New York. On Saturday, he’ll throw out a first pitch at a Mets baseball game and Sunday participate in a polo match on Governor’s Island.
The Hill: Pentagon leaders, the military services and
This is meaningless, because at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, Obama will do what he wants. The DHS’s plans can change in the blink of an eye. Remember how Obama and the Left initially said the nuclear option wasn’t an option for Health Care? In addition, technically speaking, a plan [...]
As Obama declares war on Arizona and abandons Israel, Jon Voight has something to say about it… June 22, 2010 President Obama: You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the [...]
The Washington Examiner: In March, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision struck down campaign finance limits on political expression by individuals working through corporations and unions as a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. A cry ensued among liberal Democrats predicting doom if they and their special interest allies were required [...]
