Oct 22, 2010 USAToday Good morning from The Oval. On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and sea blockade of Cuba because of Soviet missile construction on the island — the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. President Obama continues his West Coast campaign swing today, visiting Los Angeles [...]
WashingtonTimes LONDON (AP) — The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a message posted to its Twitter page on Thursday, the organization said there was a [...]
Los Angeles Times California’s marijuana legalization ballot initiative, Proposition 19, is trailing badly, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll, which found likely voters opposing the measure 51% to 39%. Until recently, the initiative had led in most polls with support from about half of the electorate. But supporters of the initiative have not [...]
WSJ There is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed, according to an analysis of NASA data being published Friday, a finding that may bolster the case for a manned base on the lunar surface. The discovery grew out of an audacious experiment last year, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [...]
NYTIMES October 21, 2010 Despite our applause at its It Gets Better videos, today there is some news about Google that is less applause worthy. Using legal and accounting maneuvering, Google has effectively kept some $3.1 billion dollars in potential tax revenue from the government. The corporate tax rate in America is 35 percent, but [...]
Oct 21 10:53 AM US/Eastern Associated Press Writers FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – A gun store clerk says the Army psychiatrist accused in last year’s Fort Hood shooting rampage asked to be sold the “most high tech handgun” just months before the deadly attack. Frederick Brannon of Killeen, Texas, told a military court Thursday that [...]
The Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — A group that promotes the separation of church and state is demanding an end to prayers before football games at Soddy-Daisy High School. The Chattanooga Times Free Press quoted the attorney for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, who said the Madison, Wis.-based organization sent a letter to local school [...]
Los Angeles Times October 21, 2010|8:27 a.m. Reporting from Washington — The taxpayer bailouts of housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost as much as $363 billion through 2013, according to government projections released Thursday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has regulated the former government-sponsored enterprises since they were seized during [...]
MoscowTimes 21 October 2010 Ever since the global economic crisis shook the world in 2008, we have been hearing dire warnings about the imminent end of capitalism. In Russia, these warnings have particular significance since the Soviet Union predicted the downfall of capitalism ever since the country’s ideological idol, Karl Marx, wrote his famous words [...]
Haaretz The Israel Defense Forces soldier who drove the bulldozer involved in the death of an American activist in the Gaza Strip testified publicly on Thursday for the first time since the incident seven years ago. The soldier has not been charged or tried over 23-year-old Rachel Corrie’s death and his identity has not been [...]
THE GUARDIAN Thursday, 21 October 2010 Islamic extremists have started openly calling for the destruction of a controversial Muslim sect in a major escalation of sectarian conflict within British Islam, an investigation by The Independent has revealed. Members of the Ahmadiyya Community have seen a significant upsurge in threats and intimidation over the past four [...]
Camouflaged and silent, the assault team inched toward a walled stone compound for more than five hours, belly-crawling the last 200 yards. The target was an old state prison in eastern Ohio, and every handpicked member of Red Team 2 knew what was at stake: The year is 2014, and a new breed of neo-Islamic [...]
Published October 21, 2010 | Reuters New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, government data showed on Thursday, pointing to some improvement in the labor market. However, figures for the previous week were revised sharpy higher. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 452,000, the [...]
CNBC The manufacturer of the world’s most popular hunting rifle has been wrestling for decades with a critical safety issue, and at least twice considered a nationwide recall of the gun, according to corporate insiders and internal documents revealed in a ten-month CNBC investigation. But the Remington Arms Company has never alerted the public to [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sticking by her story. Democrats will keep the house and she’ll be speaker after Election Day. Well let me say why I believe that would be very difficult for the Republicans to takeover the House of Representatives,” Pelosi said on the “Charlie Rose Show,” according to a transcript released by [...]
WSJ. By KARL ROVE At an April 2008 fund-raiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama let loose with his famous “they cling to guns or religion” line. Last Saturday at a West Newton, Mass., fund-raiser, the president said, “facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning . . . because we’re hard-wired not [...]
NYTimes ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters, faced with the buildup of American forces, to flee strongholds they have held for years, NATO commanders, local Afghan officials and residents of the region said. A series of civilian [...]
NATION Oct. 21) — NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams after he told the Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on airplanes. Williams appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday, and host Bill O’Reilly asked him what he thought about the idea that America is facing a “Muslim [...]
AP. The headline is true. I posted it because Big P is scared less by clowns.
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