Examiner.com: New Jersey’s Republican governor, Chris Christie, has not only become an Internet sensation sweeping the nation due to his major ownership of Liberal reporters, his winning remarks toward a lying school teacher but for his announcement that the “day of reckoning” has come as well. A lot of people in Conservative, Tea Party and [...]
Chicago Sun Times: A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich’s former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor’s corruption trial that three days [...]
Telegraph: The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions. The Morning Challenge campaign, unveiled by the Environment Ministry, is based on the premise that swapping late night electricity for an extra hour of morning sunlight could significantly [...]
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Isner and Mahut remain tied on 59 games all in the fifth set of the longest tennis match ever played, in first round at Wimbledon Guardian: Somewhere around five hours into the final set of the longest tennis match ever seen in the professional game, with an increasingly sunburned crowd leaning on the metal barriers [...]
Washington Times: Just months before critical midterm elections, the Republican National Committee is hurting for cash more than at any similar period in memory, according to figures reported this week to the Federal Election Commission. Next month’s shortfall is shaping up to be as bad or even worse, a senior official with knowledge of committee’s [...]
Politico: The Democratic National Committee plans to port its message to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch beginning Thursday, offering two free new apps that connect voters with the party’s candidates and events. The two tools, one of which is powered by Organizing for America, seek to build off the success that President Barack Obama [...]
Politico: Sensing victory in November, and eager to cut into the Democrats’ cash edge, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has pledged to give $1 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the next month. Boehner was joined by a number of other Republicans on Wednesday morning in pledging huge transfers of money to [...]
Times Online: Hundreds of courts and police stations will close under government plans to reduce the £20 billion a year criminal justice budget.
AZ Central: FORT WORTH, Texas – Bruce Florence’s family was his motivation for working hard. For more than a decade, he was a regular sight at the Walmart in Westworth Village, greeting customers, ringing up purchases and stocking merchandise, his wife, Cathey Florence, said. He also frequently worked a second job to further provide for [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)- When he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor’s mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented apartment during his first tour in the executive office and lived in a downtown loft in Oakland while he was mayor of the crime-ridden city. [...]
The Hill: House Republicans who backed the nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the move doesn’t change their opposition to the Democrats’ war and domestic spending bill. House GOP leaders lauded the popular general on Wednesday after President Barack Obama tapped him as the replacement to Gen. [...]
Fox News: A new study by the National Association of Scholars has found that 70 percent of the summer reading books assigned to incoming college freshmen in the U.S. show a liberal bias and are not academically challenging, setting off a storm of debate in educational circles. The report, “Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want [...]
(Reuters) – With the historic overhaul of U.S. financial rules nearly complete, lawmakers have waited until the final, frantic hours to sort out the most controversial provisions in the bill. Democrats in charge of the process appear likely to retain tough restrictions on banks’ trading and investment activities that could crimp profits for the foreseeable [...]
