The Hill: by Dick Morris Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance [...]
Politico: Outmaneuvered by the GOP during the last round of redistricting a decade ago, Democrats appear to have an early advantage as the two parties gear up again for the expensive and high-stakes battle over redrawing state legislative and congressional districts. “I do believe that the Democrats are much better organized at this stage,†said [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – He’s the right guy to ride herd over America’s intelligence operations. Or he’s a good guy, but the wrong one for that tough job. Those warring opinions emerged about James R. Clapper after President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants the Pentagon’s current intelligence chief to serve as director of national intelligence—the [...]
LA Times: If Republican Sharron Angle wins her party’s Senate primary Tuesday, it will be a victory for the soft-spoken perpetual candidate, Nevada’s conservative diehards, the national “tea party” movement and underdogs everywhere. It will also be a huge win for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Nevada Democrat has been working for months — [...]
Jerusalem Post: Organizer tells Gaza crowd: Everything is heading towards Islam. Radio messages sent from the Turkish Gaza flotilla to the Navy contained chilling
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The Telegraph: Europe still worships him and Washington’s Obamatrons remain smitten, but former supporters are turning on the President, writes Toby Harnden. Well, at least he’s still got Sir Paul McCartney. At the White House last week, the 67-year-old crooner was gushing in much the same manner as his own groupies did at Shea Stadium [...]
ABC News: BP said today that its latest try to control the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be working. It has lowered a large cap over the blown-out well, 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf, in hopes of siphoning off the escaping oil. “I am actually pretty confident this is [...]
New York Post: The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website. Perdana is [...]
The Telegraph: Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster. Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family’s mansion in Kent, which is estimated to be [...]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A dual Lebanese-American couple were arrested Thursday on charges they conspired to provide thousands of dollars to a Hizbullah, federal authorities said. Hor Akl and his wife, Amera Akl, were taken into custody after an FBI informant provided them with $200,000 in cash, which they were preparing to hide in a [...]
Life News: A newly-produced document today from the Clinton archives is the second to show Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan defending ex-President Bill Clinton’s veto of a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. The memo, and others, may increase Republican opposition to her nomination. In one of the documents that comprises the 46,000 pages of material [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rebuffed before, Republicans are renewing demands for a Justice Department investigation into White House dealmaking in two Senate races. The Obama administration says it’s broken no laws, but Republicans aren’t taking its word. The GOP national chairman, Michael Steele, used his party’s weekly radio and Internet address to keep the political heat [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A SWAT team surrounded a Los Angeles house Saturday where investigators believed a porn actor suspected of killing a colleague with a prop sword is holed up. A barricade was set up around the home in the West Hills neighborhood about 9:30 a.m., LAPD Officer April Harding said. Officers established contact [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – A defiant Israel enforced its 3-year-old blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, with naval commandos swiftly commandeering a Gaza-bound aid vessel carrying an Irish Nobel laureate and other activists and forcing it to head to an Israeli port instead. The bloodless takeover stood in marked contrast to a deadly raid of another [...]
