Fox News: Sen. Scott Brown’s last-minute support for President Obama’s sweeping financial overhaul legislation has put him in the crosshairs of Tea Party activists who have sharply criticized the bill and could dim his re-election hopes for 2012. Brown announced Monday he would support the regulatory overhaul despite initial misgivings, joining fellow New England Republican [...]
Des Moines Register: The message of a controversial billboard in Mason City comparing President Obama with Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin probably got lost in its visuals, a co-founder of the Tea Party group that paid for the sign said today. But he says the underlying message remains: That the country is headed in the [...]
Pelosi, continuing to preside over her own funeral Fox News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the driving force behind the Obama agenda in Congress, sharply criticized White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at a closed-door House Democratic caucus meeting late Tuesday, according to Democratic sources. Pelosi, irked since Sunday by what she and other top Democrats [...]
Fox News: Inmates of the jail where Lindsay Lohan is set to spend up to 90 days have warned of gangs out to attack the starlet, saying “everyone will want a piece of her,” one inmate said in an interview with The Sun. Lindsay Lohan will leave her Hollywood pad next week and move into [...]
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Leaders of the country’s largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry and approved a resolution condemning racism within the political movement. The resolution was adopted during the annual convention in Kansas City of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spokesman Chris [...]
Fox News: SALT LAKE CITY — A list containing the names and personal information of 1,300 people an anonymous group contends are illegal immigrants has been mailed around Utah, terrifying the state’s Hispanic community. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert wrote in a tweet Tuesday that he has asked state agencies to investigate the list — sent [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A pledge by rich nations in Copenhagen to provide as much as $100 billion a year of climate-related aid to developing countries by 2020 may depend in part on the generosity of private donors and other non-governmental sources. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that his panel of advisers — seeking ways [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – A government document reveals that the Obama administration is planning to cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile by up to 40 percent by 2021. The Energy Department document provides details of the reductions that President Barack Obama has called for on a path to eliminating nuclear weapons. The reductions continue a trajectory of [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP is delaying critical tests on a leaky well cap designed to finally stop the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico after government officials said more analysis was needed on the plan. BP engineers were scheduled to start slowly shutting off valves on the 75-ton metal stack of pipes [...]
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NY Daily News: Many readers have been contacting me with reminders that the most important story in America right now – the shockingly high level of long-term unemployment – is about far more than the latest statistics. It’s about people’s lives. “I was laid off in August of 2008. I am worried about the future. [...]
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Washington Post: When White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told “Meet the Press” host David Gregory on Sunday that “there is no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control”, he was, to many people, stating the obvious. After all, political prognosticators — from Charlie Cook to Stu Rothenberg [...]
(Reuters) – Florida Governor Charlie Crist holds a narrow edge over Republican Marco Rubio in a three-way Senate race dominated by economic worries, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Crist, who left the Republican Party to run as an independent after Rubio mounted a primary challenge against him, leads Rubio 35 percent to [...]