Jerusalem Post: The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that it would be worthwhile to bomb Iran’s nuclear program, The Washington Times reported. Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba reportedly endorsed the military option if sanctions do not stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. “I think it’s a cost-benefit analysis,” Otaiba said to an [...]
Jerusalem Post: US President Barack Obama’s attempts to portray himself as pro-Israel in his press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday failed to persuade right-wing MKs, who warned that Obama is “still evil.†The MKs questioned the president’s motives and suggested that he was putting on a show for [...]
The Telegraph: Teachers will be encouraged to restrain unruly pupils as part of a drive to improve discipline in schools, ministers are to announce. Staff will also be able to search children for a wide range of items and punish those misbehaving with immediate detentions, the proposals will say. Teachers who are the subject of [...]
The Week: With the nation mired in unemployment, liberal economists have been pulling the fire alarm with increasing urgency. But the fire department isn’t coming. My friends Kevin O’Rourke and Barry Eichengreen in the office next door were chief among those economists warning at the start of 2009 that the shock to the world economy [...]
CNN Money: NEW YORK — Want to send granny a card? It might cost you a bit more next year. The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday proposed a 2-cent increase in the price of a first-class stamp, bringing the cost to 46 cents. The change, if approved, will go into effect on Jan. 2. The [...]
San Francisco Gate: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer pounded today on the issue of jobs in her first campaign barnstorm of the state, lambasting her GOP opponent and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as a “disastrous” executive who laid off thousands of workers and shipped jobs overseas while earning millions. Boxer, on a two-day state swing [...]
CNS News: According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government helped pay the home air conditioning bills for more than 11,000 dead people, 1,100 federal employees, and 725 convicts in fiscal year 2009. The payments were made by a $5 billion program known as the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). LIHEAP is [...]
Fox News: Dubai airports will not use hi-tech full-body scanners because they “contradict Islam” and violate passengers’ privacy, according to reports — even though the scanners can detect terrorist threats like those posed by the Christmas Day bomber. Neither of Dubai’s two airports will use the scanners “out of respect for the privacy of individuals [...]
A Certain Enthusiasm: A key RNC committee proposes changes in the primary calendar for 2012, the Hotline reports: The new rule, written after months of painstaking negotiations among senior members of the national committee, would push the beginning of the presidential nominating process back a month, to Feb., as part of a plan to prevent [...]
Related: Black Panther Case: Whistleblower Accuses Justice Department Of Racism At Civil Rights Hearing – With Video PHOENIX (AP) – The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation’s [...]
The Hill: Arizona Republicans say the administration would be wrong to sue their state over an immigration law. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) criticized the Justice Department on Tuesday for reportedly planning a lawsuit to overturn the Arizona immigration law. The criticism follows reports in the Washington Post and Associated Press that [...]
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The Hill: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday he would favor immigration reform that would deport most of the residents of the United States who are here illegally.

 McCain, who at one point had been the top Republican advocate for immigration legislation promising a pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants, said he favored establishing [...]
Politico: Republican senators have already blamed the breezy confirmation process for Elena Kagan on simple math, saying Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is already ensured with 58 Democrats in the Senate. But the GOP has more than just a math problem with Kagan. It has a passion problem — the party, which has used [...]
