Politico: House Minority Leader John Boehner says fellow Republicans will use the August recess to paint a contrast with their Democratic opponents, signaling that the GOP might not be comfortable relying solely on a theme of opposition heading into the fall. “What I want Republicans to do in August is go home and talk about [...]
Washington Post: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has “the cojones” that President Obama “does not have” to take on illegal immigration. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Palin blasted Obama for suing Arizona to block the state’s controversial new law without addressing “sanctuary cities” — in which local [...]
Washington Post: Before the online site WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about the Afghanistan war, government investigators interviewed Boston-area acquaintances of a military analyst charged with providing other documents to the site in an effort to prevent additional leaks, according to one person interviewed in the probe. The investigators from the Army and [...]
The Hill: Two liberal groups are pushing against Fox News’ request for a seat in the White House briefing room. The decision to fill the front-row seat formerly held by UPI’s Helen Thomas will be made Sunday by the White House Correspondents Association. Fox, NPR and Bloomberg News are the three most serious contenders for [...]
Jerusalem Post: Iran will make the Persian Gulf a war zone unsafe for all nations if the US attempts to attack its nuclear program, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards Yadollah Javani told the official IRNA news agency on Sunday. “If the American make the slightest mistake, the security of the region will be endangered. [...]
Jerusalem Post: The Islamic Jihad organization said on Sunday that it has decided to resume suicide attacks against Israel from the West Bank. The threat came in response to attacks launched by IAF planes on the Gaza Strip following the firing of rockets on Israel in the past few days. The group, however, admitted that [...]
Financial Times: BP would be blocked from winning future drilling permits in the US because of its safety record under energy legislation passed on Friday by the House of Representatives. But the measure is far from becoming law and is not under consideration by the Senate. Passage of the so-called Miller amendment nevertheless puts pressure [...]
Press TV: An elderly Frenchman has been released after being locked up for a year in the laundry room of his house in southwest of Paris. French police rescued the unnamed 80-year-old man after his 45-year-old wife and her alleged lover locked, malnourished and physically and verbally abused him in his own home in the [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – Nearly five months after disputed parliamentary elections, leading Iraqi politicians say they have all but abandoned hope of resolving the impasse before fall. The protracted stalemate is a scenario U.S. officials have long dreaded. By the end of August, the United States will declare the end of its combat mission in Iraq [...]
The Washington Examiner: The proportion of Republicans, Democrats, and independents that turnout to vote shape the outcome of every election. Even small shifts in these percentages can dramatically alter political outcomes. And this November’s midterm is no exception. But estimating the partisan composition of the electorate – and especially making comparisons over time — is [...]
The Los Angeles Times: U.S. troops now account for about two-thirds of the NATO force in Afghanistan, and Americans make up more than two-thirds of July’s Western military fatalities. Reporting from Forward Operating Base Kunduz, —The platoon sergeant was inspecting the gaping crater left by a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan when a second thunderous [...]
Orlando Sentinel: ABOARD THE DISCOVERER ENTERPRISE – For most of three months, this drilling ship was a front-row seat to roaring infernos of petroleum, pillars of smoke that eclipsed the sky and multicolored slicks of crude that drifted across the Gulf of Mexico. On Saturday, that apocalyptic spectacle was gone, replaced by drama nearly a [...]
Haaretz: Israel Air Force jets struck two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, just hours after a Qassam rocket fired from the coastal enclave hit a public structure in the western Negev, causing damage. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said the army views Gaza’s Hamas rulers as the sole party responsible for [...]
The Hill: A Senate Judiciary subcommittee will assess government preparedness for a terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction in the wake of a report calling Justice Department planning inadequate. The Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security will hear testimony Wednesday from senior Justice Department and Homeland Security officials concerning the ability of the United [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a strike is probably a bad idea. Adm. Mike Mullen, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, has often warned that a military strike on Iran would have serious and unpredictable ripple [...]
The New York Times: ST. CHARLES, Mo. — For all its symbolic import, the first plebiscite on the Obama health care law, to be held Tuesday in Missouri, seems likely to be a low-turnout affair among an electorate dominated by Republican primary voters and conservative activists. Missouri is the first of at least three states [...]
Politico: Despite the blow dealt by a federal judge to Arizona’s law aimed at tackling illegal immigration, lawmakers and activists backing similar measures in states across the country say the judge’s ruling won’t dissuade them from pressing on with their campaign to assert local governments’ rights to manage the issue. “People are going to be [...]
