Washington Times: The White House said Wednesday stimulus act spending has finally kicked into high gear and as of June 30 had grown the economy by up to 3.2 percent and created up to 3.6 million jobs. The report, the fourth quarterly analysis from the White House, comes as President Obama is trying to rehabilitate [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region. A suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the gate of the headquarters [...]
Abdelbaset Ali Mohamet al-Megrahi in Tripoli last year The Hill: A group of Democratic senators are calling BP and the British government to account for the freeing of a terrorist convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, a new problem for relations between the United States and Britain. At a Wednesday press conference, Democratic senators accused [...]
And 17% of those 74% think it doesn’t go far enough… CBS News: Public support for Arizona’s controversial new immigration law has increased slightly, a new CBS News poll shows, with 57 percent of Americans characterizing the law as “about right” in the way it addresses the issue of illegal immigration. Support for the measure [...]
Another eyes-wide-open, bold-face lie from Obama to the American people… Fox News: Call it a failure to launch. The White House is disavowing a plan to have NASA conduct outreach to Muslim countries, but a congressman who talked to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about that plan last month said the initiative was very real until [...]
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The Hill: he U.S. Chamber of Commerce is blasting the Obama administration and congressional Democrats for policies it says are expanding government and hindering an economic recovery. The powerful business lobby group said Democrats and the White House have “neglected America’s number one priority†— creating jobs. “Instead of continuing their partnership with the business [...]
Jerusalem Post: Israel inched a step closer on Wednesday to deploying a missile defense system along the border with the Gaza Strip after the Iron Dome successfully intercepted a number of missile barrages in tests held in southern Israel this week. The tests were overseen by the Defense Ministry, the Israeli Air Force and the [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama will hear House Democrats’ frustrations in person Wednesday evening at a White House meeting, giving both sides a chance to clear the air over recent comments by press secretary Robert Gibbs that Democrats may lose the House. Addressing scores of her colleagues at a private session in the Capitol Tuesday night, [...]
The Hill: President Obama used Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday for a stealth attack on Mitt Romney, a leading Republican presidential contender in 2012. Obama dispatched Gates to meet Senate Republicans to discuss a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty and other national security issues. Romney, widely seen as interested in another bid for the Oval [...]
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — The new American military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, is pushing to have top leaders of a feared insurgent group designated as terrorists, a move that could complicate an eventual Afghan political settlement with the Taliban and aggravate political tensions in the region. General Petraeus introduced the idea [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Retail sales fell in June for the second straight month, more evidence that the recovery will slow in the second half of the year. Retail spending dropped 0.5 percent in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. That followed a 1.1 percent fall in May. Excluding autos, spending was down 0.1 percent in [...]
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of data recorders from Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles involved in accidents blamed on sudden acceleration and found that at the time of the crashes, throttles were wide open and the brakes were not engaged, people familiar with the findings said. The results suggest that [...]
