The Hill: One of the GOP’s handful of black candidates for Congress condemned President Barack Obama for exploiting race for political gain. Allen West, the Republican challenging Rep. Ron Klein (D) in Florida’s 22nd congressional district, sharply criticized the Obama administration for having allegedly declined prosecuting the New Black Panther Party on voter tampering charges [...]
Politico: Arizona state Treasurer Dean Martin announced Friday he’s suspending his primary challenge to Gov. Jan Brewer, throwing his support behind the Republican in the wake of the federal government’s lawsuit against the state’s controversial immigration law. In a letter posted on his website, Martin wrote that with the pending lawsuit, he believed “a contested [...]
Washington Times: Washington Times: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Friday that the formation of an Iraqi government was near, four months after an inconclusive election threw the fledgling democracy into its latest political stalemate. “We hope to form the government in August,” said Mr. Allawi, whose secular and Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc narrowly won [...]
National Review Online: The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent. Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to [...]
The LA Times: Reporting from Washington — The moment has been long in coming, but it may finally have arrived. For the last year and a half, on issues including healthcare, financial regulation and climate change, Democrats in Congress have bent for President Obama. Liberals swallowed hard to accept compromises that fell short of their [...]
LAVRIO, Greece (AP) — A ship commissioned by a Libyan charity organization made preparations Friday to set sail to Gaza loaded with aid. It comes over a month after Israel raided Gaza-bound ships, killing eight Turks and a Turkish-American on one of them. The flotilla was trying to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza. The Moldova-flagged [...]
Or as I like to call it: “Fern Gully 3″ Deadline: I’m told this will be the biggest financial haul ever for a movie director from a single pic because James Cameron had a significant gross percentage of the Twentieth Century Fox megahit as helmer, writer, and producer. Though Hollywood pay experts tell me that [...]
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USA Today: A new containment cap and an additional ship collecting oil could effectively contain the spill in the next three days, Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Friday. BP could start replacing the containment cap on the leaking well with a new sealing cap Saturday, Allen told the Associated Press. “Technically, it’s pretty [...]
New York Times: YOU might think that it would be worried, overprotective mothers who would rebel against the overt sexualization of the teenage star Miley Cyrus, who became a pop phenomenon as Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel hit show. But no. It’s the young girls who think Ms. Cyrus has gone too far. And [...]
The Unpopular Truth: by Dustin Stanley The word “racist” has for a long time been the single most effective fear-word in the leftist and neoconservative arsenal. For decades, they have successfully used it in the political arena to slander traditionalists, shut down debate, and leave opponents running for cover. In the social arena, they have [...]
Investor’s Business Daily: Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it’s July, and there’s no sign of this year’s report. What is the Obama administration hiding? The annual report includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over the next 75 years, [...]
Wall Street Journal: by John Fund Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they’re leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won’t return until mid-September. Members gulped when National Journal’s Charlie Cook, the Beltway’s leading political handicapper, predicted last month “the House is gone,” meaning a GOP [...]
The Hill: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a newsletter Friday to keep an eye on a little-known but powerful federal board that has a big impact on labor law. NLRB Insight is the name of the publication that will scrutinize the rulings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The five-member board adjudicates [...]
Washington Times: President Obama’s moratorium on deep-water drilling could have the unintended effect of increasing U.S. dependence on oil imports — thus raising the risk of a more common type of oil spill from tankers, energy analysts say. The six-month moratorium already has thrown thousands of oil workers in the Gulf region out of work [...]
This week’s Top Headline Flashback: July 10, 2010 Oregon (Reuters) – Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion’s hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday. In the 110 meters hurdles, American David Oliver recorded the fourth fastest 110 meters hurdles [...]
By John Fund In The Wall Street Journal: J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. As expected, he claimed that Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama appointee, [...]
Press TV: Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo says US President Barack Obama is the greatest danger for the United States. At a fundraiser event organized by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday to stump support for Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck, Tancredo appeared to be too critical of Obama, describing him [...]
