NY Post: The heat is on Republican leader John Boehner. Liberal media outlets are trying to smear the highest-ranking Republican in the House just weeks before the midterm elections with a deal-breaking scandal before he has a chance to take the speaker’s chair from Nancy Pelosi. A blogger from liberal Web site The Daily Kos [...]
Politico: A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white. The prosecutor, Christopher [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, under pressure to send Democrats home to campaign with the strongest possible closing argument, said Friday she is considering calling a vote on extending middle-class tax cuts next week. Democrats, however, are divided on whether forcing a recorded vote on the issue before congressional elections in November would [...]
The Hill: Liberals are expressing outrage that Democrats are not holding a vote to extend tax cuts for the middle class before the elections. Two weeks after President Obama delivered an impassioned speech on the need to raise taxes for the wealthy, Democrats on Capitol Hill have delayed a vote on the politically sensitive issue. [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas State Board of Education has adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. Social conservatives on the board had asked that the resolution be put on Friday’s agenda. It was approved by a 7-6 vote. The one-page resolution calls on textbook publishers to limit what they [...]
Washington (AP) – Stephen Colbert’s satirical routine as a conservative commentator on “The Colbert Report” leaves millions of his fans laughing every night, but the comedian failed to amuse lawmakers Friday during a House panel hearing on border security, farm jobs and illegal immigrants. The Comedy Central star stayed in character during testimony as he [...]
Fox News: The Justice Department is ignoring civil rights cases that involve white victims and wrongly abandoned a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party last year, a top department official testified Friday. He called the department’s conduct a “travesty of justice.” Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the department’s Civil Rights Division, [...]
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Fox News: A destructive cyber worm designed to bring down industrial complexes has Iran’s new nuclear power plant in its sights.
The Telegraph: In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade. “Tensions on the Korean Peninsula could not be any higher. The only next step is a conflict,” [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Democrats abandoned plans to vote before Election Day on extending Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class while eliminating them for better-off Americans, spooked by protests from vulnerable incumbents and bleak prospects for passage. With time running out to plan for 2011, the delay raises uncertainty for small businesses and individual taxpayers [...]
Greta Van Susteren’s Blog, Greta Wire: I just cancelled a Bob Woodward new book interview because the publisher won’t get me a copy to READ BEFORE I do the interview. ON THE RECORD at ten is not the Home Shopping Channel – I actually read the books before I do the interview out of respect [...]
Arizona Republic: When Thomas de Jong of Buckeye was indicted on three felony counts of pollution in 1996, he knew it was a mistake because the failed wastewater system at his dairy farm had been designed by the federal government. Nevertheless, the 52-year-old husband and father of six endured years of litigation and $200,000 in [...]
The Telegraph: Scientists have discovered that the hormone oxytocin could help wallflowers overcome awkwardness in social situations The chemical dubbed “the hormone of love” is known to increase empathy and bonding – especially parents and their children. But now researchers have found it improves the social skills of the shy – but has little effect [...]
USA Today: Rosie O’Donnell is prepping for her new one-hour daily talk show, which will premiere on OWN in January, but she took time out last night in New York to host her Rosie’s Building Dreams for Kids Gala. Ro pals Tyne Daly, Robin Quivers, Cyndi Lauper, Fran Drescher and Suze Orman and new girlfriend [...]
