Washington Post: 1. Midterm votes foretell future election results. Midterm elections are largely determined by short-term factors, including the popularity of the president and the state of the economy. As a result, they rarely indicate anything about longer-term trends, and they have no value in predicting the results of the subsequent presidential and congressional elections. [...]
The Hill: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday filed a lawsuit that challenges EPA’s recent rejection of its petition for reconsideration of the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding†that greenhouse gases threaten humans. The finding is the underpinning for upcoming EPA rules limiting emissions from power plants, factories and other sources that are opposed by [...]
Washington (AP) – – Russia’s announcement that it will help Iran get nuclear fuel is raising questions about what President Obama calls the “better-than- ever” relationship between Russia and the U.S. after the two former Cold War adversaries recently signed a nuclear reduction treaty. Obama also recently declared his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, would help [...]
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – A California school district sued by a former sixth-grade student who was asked to remove an anti-abortion T-shirt has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle the suit. Attorneys for Tiffany Amador said Friday that officials at Merced’s McSwain Union Elementary School called the T-shirt disruptive when she wore it in April [...]
The Hill: Democrats who reluctantly slashed a food stamp program to fund a state aid bill may have to do so again to pay for a top priority of first lady Michelle Obama.
Washington (AP) – – President Obama is under fire after jumping into the middle of a cultural clash Friday night in favor of building a mosque near ground zero, a stance that has elevated the contentious issue to the presidential level ahead of a difficult election season for Democrats. Some victims’ advocates and Republicans have [...]
BURIEN, Wash. (AP) – Carlos Hernandez packed up his family and left Arizona after the state passed its sweeping immigration crackdown. The illegal immigrant’s new home outside Seattle offered something Arizona could not: a driver’s license. Three states — Washington, New Mexico and Utah — allow illegal immigrants to get licenses because their laws do [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed
Polish skydivers broke a European record on Thursday, when 104 people managed to create a formation in the air as part of an event called the Big Way Camp Euro 2010. The skydive was their fifteenth attempt at breaking the record.
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Daily Caller: In response to widespread criticism from Democrats who blasted Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) program content that she oversaw as the company’s CEO, Republican groups pointed to the time when then-Democratic Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared on a WWE show to promote their presidential campaigns [...]
