Under Threat From The Insurgents, Mexico’s Reporters Go Silent (5)
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Archive for August, 2010
After Six Years, Feds Clear Tom Delay Of All Charges (5)
Politico: The Justice Department has informed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) that the government has ended a six-year investigation of his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to DeLay’s lead counsel in the matter, Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuireWoods. The investigation lasted through two presidents and four attorneys general. Its demise [...]
Attacks Against Mexicans Inflame Tensions In New York City (9)
NEW YORK (AP) – When Rodolfo Olmedo was dragged down by a group of men shouting anti-Mexican epithets and bashed over the head with a wooden stick on the street outside his home, he instinctively covered his face to keep from getting disfigured. Blood filled his mouth. “I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t because [...]
U.S. Troops Hope To Be Freed Up To Fight Taliban By Afghan Army Getting Its Sh*t Together To Handle Rear-Area Security (2)
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —With training of Afghanistan’s army and police ahead of schedule, American officials now believe the U.S.-led military coalition could begin transferring some security responsibilities to Afghan forces as early as spring. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in an interview that given faster-than-expected progress in training army units, it [...]
Despite Bullseye On Her Back, Pelosi Hits Campaign Trail For Dems (2)
Robert Hurt, trying to oust Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello in a central Virginia contest, calls his opponent the “poster child for Nancy Pelosi’s policies.” In Alabama, GOP challenger Martha Roby says Democratic Rep. Bobby Bright “might be a fine person, but he supported Mrs. Pelosi.” But the big political bull’s-eye on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s [...]
China Inches Up On U.S., Now World’s Number Two Economy (1)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan lost its place as the world’s No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery. Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of just 0.4 percent, the government said Monday, far below the annualized 4.4 percent expansion in the [...]
Drunken Illegals Targeted For Ouster (7)
Washington Times: After a Catholic nun’s death earlier this month in a drunken-driving crash that police say was caused by a repeat-offender illegal immigrant, a key lawmaker wants the federal government to start detaining and deporting every illegal immigrant who commits a drunken-driving offense. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House [...]
Union Tells L.A. Teachers To Boycott L.A. Times For Scrutiny (1)
A.J. Duffy, blowing hard Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a “massive boycott” of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers. “You’re leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem [...]
World’s First 3-D IMAX Porn Film Begins Shooting (0)
The Telegraph: On the leafy fringes of Hong Kong in a shabby film studio, a nude ponytailed actor stretched out on animal-skins with his lover as the cameras rolled in a set evoking a subterranean sex lair in ancient China. Turning away from a slightly blurred high definition TV screen as the actors writhed, director [...]
Japan Apologizes For World War Two (1)
TOKYO (AP) – Asia paused on Sunday to remember Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces ending World War II 65 years ago. The Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region, and the South Korean president said Tokyo’s remorse was a step in the right direction. From Nanjing, China – the site of [...]
“Super Angels” Do The Work Fixing The Economy That The Government Can’t (0)
Wall Street Journal: Much of the venture-capital industry is undergoing a shakeout. But a growing breed of start-up investors dubbed “super angels” is rapidly raising new money—and ratcheting up competition with established venture capitalists in the process. Aydin Senkut, a former Google Inc. executive, plans to announce that he just closed a $40 million super-angel [...]
North Korea Threatens To Mete Out The “Severest Punishement” To South Korea For This Week’s War Games With U.S. (20)
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea’s military threatened Sunday to launch the “severest punishment” against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week. The North’s army and people will “deal a merciless counterblow” to the allies “as it had already resolved and declared at home and abroad”, a spokesman for [...]
Critics Call For Mosque Root Beer Summit – With Video (1)
Fox News: Is another (non-alcoholic) beer summit in order? Perhaps this time to discuss the controversial plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero? That’s what one lawyer joined lawmakers in suggesting Sunday in a fiery exchange on America’s News Headquarters. Brett Joshpe, an attorney with the American Center for Law and Justice, says opposition [...]
Studying The Brain Disconnected From The Internet (1)
New York Times: GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Todd Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall. He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist. For the first time in three days in the wilderness, Mr. Braver is not wearing his watch. “I forgot,†he [...]
Plan For November? Democrats Aren’t Sure (3)
Washington Post: The Democrats passed the stimulus package. They passed health-care and Wall Street overhauls and revamped the financing system for higher education. Their other main priorities, on immigration and energy, appear to be headed nowhere. So, what will they do next? It’s a question that has left congressional Democrats, who have spent the past [...]