New York (AP) – – Craigslist closed the adult services section of its website Saturday, replacing it with a black bar that says “censored,” just over a week after a group of state attorneys general said there weren’t enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution. The listings came under new scrutiny after the [...]
New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan and United States governments hammered together a deal to bail out Afghanistan’s largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositors mobbed the bank for a third day. Details of the deal were still [...]
The Hill: The administration’s marking of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan continues Tuesday when the State Department hosts an event.
Wall Street Journal: With the job market stuck in neutral, the Obama administration is moving toward using the revenue from expiring tax cuts for the wealthy to finance about $35 billion of tax cuts for small businesses and workers, administration and congressional officials said Friday. The employment report for August, which showed a slight uptick [...]
Washington Post: TOKYO – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will probably use an upcoming meeting of party elites to introduce his heir apparent, initiating the Stalinist dictatorship’s second hereditary power transfer, U.S. and South Korean experts and officials say. Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong Eun, is widely expected to be given at least one [...]
Politico: First there was the battle over the mosque. Now there’s the battle over who’s funding the mosque and the campaign against it. The fact that it’s not easy to figure out where proponents and opponents of the mosque project in lower Manhattan are getting their money has given each side the opportunity to cast [...]
The Hill: Republicans act as if President Obama’s inauguration ranks with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as a national tragedy, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said this week.
As practice for the return of the “Whose Boobs Are These?” contest, in which the winner receives a free Jihadi Killer T-shirt (if I remember to send it), have a little practice. Hey, it’s the end of the Summer holiday weekend, lighten up.
Mediaite: Some jokes are lost in translation. While it seems many in Iraq are laughing at celebrities that think they will be sent to jail for an attempted suicide bombing in the new hidden camera show Put Him In Bucca, Keith Olbermann muttered something about wives and families and extreme emotional distress on his “World’s [...]
The Hill: President Obama used his Labor Day weekend radio address to defend his economic record and vow to “keep fighting†for the country’s middle class. At the end of a long week which saw the national unemployment rate uptick from 9.5 percent to 9.6 percent and Obama come under criticism for calling this summer [...]
