Canada.com: CALGARY — A Calgary mother won’t spend a day in jail for killing her teenage daughter with a head scarf — a decision that has prompted outrage. A national victims’ group, based in Toronto, is stunned by the suspended sentence given to Aset Magomadova by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sal LoVecchio on Thursday. [...]
Wall Street Journal: Financials led U.S. stocks lower as a double dose of discouraging reports on the corporate sector and the economy weighed on shares, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 200 points. Bank of America’s 8% drop led the blue chips lower, erasing the index’s weekly gains amid concerns the economy [...]
Washington Post: The dramatic expansion of financial regulation approved by Congress this week bears the stamp of no one more than Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and gives him vast powers to determine the final form of the new rules. Half a year after some pundits were predicting he would be booted from the Obama [...]
Wall Street Journal: After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of U.S. financial rules as perhaps the pre-eminent regulator in the sector. But that could only bring it added blame if things go [...]
Fox News: Journalists poured into Apple’s headquarters this morning for a surprise press conference, at which Apple discussed issues with the iPhone 4 antenna that have been plaguing the gadget — and announced free cases to fix it. Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn’t unveil any new gizmos or gadgets, nor did he announce a partnership [...]
American Thinker: Whatever planet Sheila Jackson comes from, I think we should probably cut off US aid. We don’t need any more wacky aliens like her coming to visit us and share their particular vision of planet earth. For instance: Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee – who once famously asked where she could find photos [...]
When will the NAACP renounce the racism that exists within their ranks?
The Washington Post: In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House. I have a [...]
CNews: RIPON, Que. – A Quebec man, fed up with his skyrocketing property taxes, carted more than 200,000 pennies down to City Hall to pay his bill. But he was denied, and asked to simply cut a cheque. Normand Czepial of Ripon, Que. — less than an hour’s drive northeast of Gatineau — arrived at [...]
World Net Daily: You’ve seen the reports about Van Jones, President Obama’s onetime “green jobs czar,” and Cass Sunstein, his equally volatile “regulatory czar,” and Fox News show host Glenn Beck has put together a list of dozens of such appointees. Now here’s the newest White House promotion: “Health food czar” Sam Kass. “In a [...]
Press TV: The US dollar has plunged to a two-month low against the euro after reports of a weaker economic outlook added to investors’ worries about a US recovery. The single European currency has risen more than six percent in eight weeks, to $1.29 during late trading on Thursday, CNN reported. The dollar fell after [...]
Politico: Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle took Rand Paul to task when he suggested earlier this year that Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act shouldn’t apply to private businesses. But a new report from Congress’s Office of Compliance notes that Congress has never applied the provision to itself. “The OOC Board [...]
