Politico: ‘ President Barack Obama would veto legislation suspending the EPA’s plans to write new climate change rules, a White House official said Friday. Coal-state Democrats, led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W. Va.), Reps. Rick Boucher (Va.) and Nick Rahall (W. Va), are trying to limit the federal government’s ability to control greenhouse gases from [...]
The Hill: Vice President Joe Biden is in Big Sky, Mont., this weekend in preparation for “Recovery Summer” events at national parks early next week. Biden will visit Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks on Monday and Tuesday. The parks have received $25 million in stimulus funding, and the vice president will tout the participation [...]
Attorney Kris Kobach helped author the Arizona immigration law. Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —Critics of the Obama administration’s decision to sue Arizona over its new law to control illegal immigration accuse the government of overlooking a more obvious target: the dozens of cities that called themselves a “sanctuary” for immigrants. “Everyone has noticed [...]
ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) – A nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier led an armada of warships in exercises off the Korean peninsula Sunday that North Korea has vowed to physically block and says could escalate into nuclear war. U.S. military officials said the maneuvers, conducted with South Korean ships and Japanese observers, were intended to send [...]
The Hill: Liberal and environmental activists say that Democrats will not suffer in November because of their failure to pass Senate climate change legislation. Charles Chamberlain, political director of Democracy for America, an advocacy group founded by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, said liberal voters are happy that a climate bill sponsored by Sens. John [...]
Mexico (Reuters) – Police have unearthed at least 51 bodies in a mass grave outside Mexico’s business capital Monterrey since Thursday, a grisly sign of the escalating drug violence in the northern city, authorities said on Saturday. Acting on a tip from an informant, investigators have been digging up a rural area 12 miles east [...]
Fox News: A top British spy agency uses its technology to pinpoint the hiding places of al Qaeda and Taliban chiefs for controversial “targeted killings†by U.S. drones, it was revealed Sunday. GCHQ, the top secret U.K. communications agency, has used telephone intercepts to provide the Americans with “locational intelligence†on leading militants in Afghanistan [...]
American Spectator: LAS VEGAS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would eventually be a public option. “We’re going to have a public option,” Reid said. “It’s just a question of when.” Reid’s general [...]
Los Angeles Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — An insurgent faction that claimed to have killed one U.S. serviceman and captured another offered to exchange the slain man’s body for an unspecified number of prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. The two missing Americans, identified by Western officials as U.S. Navy personnel, were last seen Friday in [...]
Politico: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political backlash along the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill – giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region President Barack Obama won in 2008 and one he will need again when [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said that allowing tax cuts for the wealthy to expire would be “the responsible thing to do.” This is the last year for the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush. Republicans generally have favored extending all of them. While Democrats are divided on the issue, [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his colleagues on the Supreme Court left for their summer break at the end of June, they marked a milestone: the Roberts court had just completed its fifth term. In those five years, the court not only moved to the right but [...]
UPDATE 8: A good update to tide the interested over, as we are midstream: Mondo Frazier in today’s Big Government: “The Story Has Neither Been Disproved Or Confirmed”. More from me, to follow, it’s taking time because I’m doing 5 other jobs, was out on the border with the AZ BP today, and have a [...]
Politico: Rep. Charles Rangel says he has no intention of leaving Congress, vowing to stick it out for an ethics trial that threatens to derail his 40-year career on Capitol Hill. “I’m in the kitchen, and I’m not walking out,†the New York Democrat vowed at a Harlem news conference Friday. And that’s exactly what [...]
AZ Central: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France. Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is one of the few Muslim [...]
Fox News: Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are calling for an investigation into allegations that the Justice Department wrongly abandoned a case against the New Black Panther Party and has adopted a policy to ignore voting rights violations against white victims. Senate Judiciary Republicans sent a letter Friday to Sen. Patrick Leahy, [...]
New York Times: LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate. Even as the [...]
BERLIN (AP) – A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans crushed 15 people to death and injured dozens at Germany’s famed Love Parade festival on Saturday. Thousands of other revelers keep partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly stampede that started when police tried to block thousands [...]
