Heading to a funeral Washington Post: Of all the problems Democrats face this fall, none may be more challenging than trying to win back the support of independent voters. President Obama has been going backward with independents for more than a year, and the Democrats stand to suffer the effects in the November elections. The [...]
PHOENIX (AP) – It would appear that the Department of Justice’s decision to sue Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, the state’s tough new immigration law, has resulted in a financial windfall for Gov. Jan Brewer’s newly established “Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense” fund. Brewer formally created the cash repository via executive order on May [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration heads to court on Thursday aiming to reinstate a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling imposed after the devastating BP Plc Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but blocked by a federal judge. The showdown starts at 3 p.m. local time (2000 GMT) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Briefing Room: It’s “absolutely clear†the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction, President Barack Obama said Thursday, amid fears that the economy had faltered. Obama made his case during a visit to Missouri that his administration’s efforts, particularly through its signature $787 billion stimulus package, had staved off a second Great Depression and [...]
Washington Times: President Obama on Thursday labeled the recession a result of “a decade of irresponsibility” that he inherited, continuing his strategy of trying to frame this fall’s congressional elections as a choice between Bush-era policies and his own. “For the better part of 10 years, folks faced stagnant incomes, skyrocketing health care costs and [...]
Haaretz: U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran. In an interview aired Thursday evening, Obama was asked whether he was concerned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would try to attack Iran without clearing the move with [...]
The New York Times: The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in leather doublets and velvet gowns; some wore jeans and cowboy hats or American-flag-patterned do-rags. Most seemed to have [...]
Fox News: Ten people accused of spying for Russia pleaded guilty inside a Manhattan courtroom Thursday as the largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War appeared to get under way. The Russians will trade four people for the ten accused Russian spies in U.S. custody, a source confirmed to Fox News. The defendants all [...]
Arizona Republic: MEXICO CITY – Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as urban gunfights between drug gangs multiply in the violence-torn country. At least nine shootouts have erupted in school zones since mid-October, three of them in the past month. On June 15, soldiers and gunmen [...]
Rasmussen: Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, up six points from two months ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds [...]
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Wall Street Journal: The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping agency, would [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate.

H/T BLK_JK_PERSHING Youtube: Fire up the HARLEY’S and see the PUNKS RUN! ((lol)) On December 4, 2007 in Pasadena, TX (suburb of Houston) Joe Horn, 61, shot and killed two men that had burglarized his neighbor’s home on November 14, 2007. Racist Panthers thought they’d show off, marching through this town in defense of the [...]
Wall Steet Journal: BP PLC is pushing to fix its runaway Gulf oil well by July 27, possibly weeks before the deadline the company is discussing publicly, in a bid to show investors it has capped its ballooning financial liabilities, according to company officials. At the same time, BP is readying a series of backup [...]
