Jerusalem Post: After a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday, US Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham held a press conference where they spoke about several pressing foreign policy issues in the region. Senator Lieberman used some very harsh language at the Wednesday press [...]
New York Times: PHOENIX — For nearly 30 years, the governors of the states that line both sides of the United States-Mexico border have gathered to celebrate border bonhomie. They issue proclamations and pledges to work together, air grievances and concerns behind closed doors and pose for the cameras in symbolic showings of cooperation. But [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid. The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans [...]
Washington Post: The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that [...]
New York Times: With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay and the Gulf of [...]
Wall Street Journal: MOSCOW—Representatives of a Russian academic convicted in 2004 of spying for the U.S. said he has agreed to be part of a deal to exchange prisoners held in Russia for the suspected spies for Russia arrested last month by U.S. authorities. The academic, Igor Sutyagin, told his mother of the deal early [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Oakland and San Francisco —The plate glass windows of Mimi’s Fashions tell the story of hard-knock Oakland today, as the city awaits a verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the white transit police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. The window on [...]
PHOENIX (AP) – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks the president’s speech did more harm than good. Arpaio says if Obama offers amnesty to millions of illegal people in this country, it will only invite others to cross the border. “Right now because of that speech were going to get more and more people crossing [...]
Politico: The Obama administration’s lawsuit over the stringent Arizona border law might have just made the incline a little steeper for many Western Democrats, providing instant fodder to Republicans who are already optimistic about regaining ground lost over the last two election cycles. The dust from the Department of Justice lawsuit filed Tuesday is just [...]
The Drunk Woman of Ill Repute Times: A Beverly Hills judge ruled Tuesday that Lindsay Lohan violated the terms of her probation in a drunk driving case when she failed to attend alcohol education classes and sentenced her to 90 days in jail. Judge Marsha N. Revel stated several instances over the last few years [...]
Fake marriage flop… HONOLULU (AP) – After deliberating for weeks, Hawaii’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have permitted same-sex civil unions. Tuesday’s veto came on the final day that Republican Gov. Linda Lingle had to either sign or veto the contentious bill. The Hawaii Legislature had approved it in late April. Had Lingle [...]
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