Pat Buchanan In World Net Daily: Obama team’s panic over losing whites On Monday, the Department of Agriculture demanded the resignation of Shirley Sherrod over a two-minute videotape where she appeared to describe to a cheering crowd of the Georgia NAACP how she denied assistance to a poor white farmer about to lose his land. [...]
ABC News: President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism. “He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles,” Obama told consumer correspondent Elisabeth [...]
National Legal And Policy Center: Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules. McLaughlin’s communications with Google officials and others about issues [...]
Arizona Republic: True to her reputation, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton made attorneys sweat on both sides of the aisle in this morning’s hearing on Senate Bill 1070, the state’s new immigration law. The topic was a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and several other civil-rights groups and individuals. Three requests [...]
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The Telegraph: In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Dr Fox said the dire state of the public finances meant the Armed Forces could no longer be equipped to cover every conceivable danger. Since the Second World War, the nation has maintained a force that can conduct all-out warfare, counter-insurgencies such as in Afghanistan or [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, dealing a serious blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and complicating Democrats’ election-year outlook. The panel did not immediately specify the charges against the Democrat, who has served in the House for some 40 [...]
Arizona Republic: Phoenix Police arrested seven protesters outside the courtroom Thursday afternoon. A crowd of about 40 people had gathered in the intersection of Washington Street and Fourth Avenue near the courthouse. Police had initially blocked traffic from the intersection, but later warned the protesters they would open up the street. About 2:35 p.m., six [...]
Politico: Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama’s party is girding for a drubbing. Rather than a long-awaited measure capping greenhouse gases — or even a more limited bill directed only at electric utilities — Senate Majority [...]
Politico: An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down. “I am public enemy No. 1 or 2 to the Democratic Party, the [...]
