The Hill: Former President George W. Bush will sit down for his first formal post-presidency interview a week after the mid-terms. NBC announced on Monday that “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer would interview Bush twice in November during the same week the former Republican president’s book, “Decision Points,” is scheduled to be published. Bush will [...]
The Economist: As Microsoft and Intel move apart, computing becomes multipolar THEY were the Macbeths of information technology (IT): a wicked couple who seized power and abused it in bloody and avaricious ways. Or so critics of Microsoft and Intel used to say, citing the two firms’ supposed love of monopoly profits and dead rivals. [...]
Politico: Republicans may not be able to repeal the Democrats’ health care reform law next year, but they’re eyeing the next best thing: Deny the Obama administration the money it needs to implement the law. GOP candidates across the country are running on a promise to repeal the law. But simply winning the House and [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents’ native countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new policy was intended to stem a flood of illegal aliens, whose children receive state-funded education [...]
(Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to face him in a televised one-on-one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world’s problems. The provocative proposal comes as Iran deals with a new wave of international sanctions — driven by Washington — aimed at putting [...]
11 Alive: ATLANTA — President Obama makes his first Atlanta appearance since his inauguration. The President will fly into town Monday morning. If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably haven’t been following the campaigns this summer. Former Governor Roy Barnes will [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan was released from jail early Monday and taken directly to an inpatient treatment center to complete the second phase of her sentence for violating probation in a 2007 drug case. Los Angeles sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said actress was discharged at 1:35 a.m. Monday after serving 14 days of [...]
St. Louis Today: The Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them. “It’s open field day now,” said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. “The criminals are going to run wild.” Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that [...]
Adrian Lamo, who tipped authorities to Manning The reason for mentioning the homosexuality of Manning is not to make a link between it, in and of itself, and his leak, but to make a link between his leak and organized, anti-American revolutionary homosexual ideology and activity in this country. I want to point out the [...]
Arizona Republic: Carlos Garcia is a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, born and raised in Phoenix. Some of his closest friends are undocumented immigrants. His undocumented friends don’t drive because they are not eligible for driver’s licenses, so on weekends it’s usually Garcia who chauffeurs them around in his Ford Mustang. They go to places like Marivue [...]
Mediaite: Frank Rich is frustrated. He is clearly annoyed that the Wikileaks release of almost 92,000 pages of documents related to the war in Afghanistan has not become more of a rallying cry to end that military effort. Or more specifically, he is seeking to reassure those hoping it will ultimately have that impact, to [...]
The Hill: The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room. The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas. According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Sunday that only a small portion of the U.S. force in Afghanistan will begin to return home next year, when an Obama administration deadline for a troop pullout goes into effect. “Drawdowns early on will be of fairly limited numbers,” Gates said in an [...]
