NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to be reopened, a contradiction that may be an effort by the oil giant to avoid blame if crude starts spewing again. Pilloried for nearly three months as it tried [...]
Fox News: Democrats going up the chain all the way to Vice President Biden tried feverishly on Sunday to reverse Robert Gibbs’ prediction that Republicans could seize the House in November, as GOP lawmakers claimed Washington indeed was on the verge of a power shift. The White House press secretary earned a rebuke from House [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.†And that power, [...]
The Hill: House Republicans want to distinguish their party as standing up for private industry job creation in the run-up to the November elections. With 9.5 percent jobless rates weighing down President Obama’s approval rates, Republicans see job creation as a political winner and they will attempt to paint Democrats as anti-business as the midterm [...]
Daily Mail: Mel Gibson is poised to quit the US after selling his mansion near New York. The disgraced Lethal Weapon star, who faces allegations of violence from his Russian former girlfriend, sold the mock Tudor property, known as Old Mill Farm, for £16 million – £10 million less than the asking price. Gibson has also put [...]
Fox News: A pair of illegal immigrants raped a 14-year-old Texas girl at July 4th party in Texas, where the teen was later found sitting naked in a bathtub, police said. The victim told police that she went to an Independence Day party with her cousin in Horseshoe Bay, Tex., about 40 miles northwest of [...]
New York Times: As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals. The plans, being tested in places like San Diego, New York and Chicago, are likely to [...]
The Hill: Al Gore is giving two thumbs up to the new science fiction thriller “Inception” that stars fellow environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio – a film that is aiding one of Gore’s climate change advocacy groups. Proceeds from the film’s July 13 premiere in Los Angeles went to the Gore-founded Alliance for Climate Protection, which is [...]
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Mediaite: After discussing the usual details about the Obama family’s hikes and how no president is ever truly on vacation and so on and so forth, Suzanne Malveaux pointed out CBS’s White House Correspondent Mark Knoller’s figures showing that Obama has taken less vacation time than the most recent President Bush. What was most interesting [...]
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared on local radio in Mobile, AL to assure listeners of the Obama Administration’s concern over the gulf oil spill. She assured the listeners that she had been in close contact with Gov. Barbour. Haley Barbour is governor of Mississippi.
