Urban Dictionary, “Ghetto Fabulous”: Referring to the style of nouveau riche people who have grown up in either ghetto or urban areas. The Hill: It’s President Obama’s birthday next week, and the first lady wants your electronic signature for a virtual birthday card. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama wrote an e-mail asking supporters Tuesday to wish [...]
Fox News: A graduate student in Georgia is suing her university after she was told she must undergo a remediation program due to her beliefs on homosexuality and transgendered persons. The student, Jennifer Keeton, 24, has been pursuing a master’s degree in school counseling at Augusta State University since 2009, but school officials have informed [...]
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Washington Times: President Obama on Monday aimed a new arrow at Republicans who he said are beholden to special interests, arguing that their expected filibuster this week of a new bill to rein in corporate spending on political ads is the latest in a line of votes in which the GOP has tried to protect [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – When it comes to war, killing the enemy is an accepted fact. Even amid the sensation of the WikiLeaks.org revelations, that stark reality lies at the core of new charges that some American military commando operations may have amounted to war crimes. Among the thousands of pages of classified U.S. documents released [...]
(Reuters) – – U.S. consumer confidence fell in July to the lowest level since February, weighed mostly by worries about the job market, according to a private sector report released Tuesday. The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes fell to 50.4 in July from a revised 54.3 in June. The [...]
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The Hill: House Democrats plan a six-week messaging campaign for the August recess in which they’ll warn voters that putting Republicans back in power would mark a return to failed George W. Bush administration policies. The strategy, coordinated with the White House and the Democrats’ campaign committees, is designed to put Republicans on defense by [...]
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Washington Post: SAN SALVADOR — Drug cartel violence in Mexico is quickly spilling south into Central America and is threatening to destabilize fragile countries already rife with crime and corruption, according to the United Nations, U.S. officials and regional law enforcement agents. The Northern Triangle of Central America — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Faced with expensive legal challenges, officials in the eastern Nebraska town of Fremont are considering suspending a voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants until the lawsuits are resolved. The City Council narrowly rejected the ban in 2008, prompting supporters to gather enough signatures for the ballot measure. [...]
Washington Post: In the first 24 hours after the unauthorized release of more than 91,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan, a few things became clear to the officials, lawmakers and experts reading them: – New evidence that the war effort is plagued by unreliable Afghan and Pakistani partners seems unlikely to undermine fragile [...]
Fox News: The White House first denied and then scoffed at the idea it was pouring operatives and press aides into Gulf Coast states to smooth feathers, first oiled then ruffled by the administration’s admittedly uneven response. Questions arose after POLITICO reported the White House recently dispatched press staff and former campaign aides to Alabama, [...]
