New York Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dozens of tanker trucks carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western Pakistan on Wednesday, the third major attack on supplies since Pakistan closed a border crossing to Afghanistan a week ago and the first at the only checkpoint that remained open. The latest [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Philadelphia — No active big league starter had gone longer without pitching in the playoffs than the Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay. So in Wednesday’s opener of the National League division series, he more than made up for the wait, no-hitting the Cincinnati Reds in a 4-0 win. Halladay was masterful, [...]
Tampa Bay.com: Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez just released a statement saying his comments from last week were not intended to be “narrow-minded” and “should not have been made.” Like most such statements, it leaves more questions unanswered than satisfied, and leaves lots open to interpretation. He appears to follow his wife’s Facebook status message [...]
The Hill: Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said he’s counting on Republicans to win back the majority in the Senate, which would make him chairman of a key environmental panel. Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, said he counted 14 seats that could flip from Democratic to GOP control [...]
As you all know, the war isn’t always at the keyboard, and our SAFE work has reached the critical mass of needing the website. All the work’s gotta be done, and so it’s getting done. Back now to start getting up the news. Grizz, who just rotated out after his second SAFE tour, may be [...]
The Hill: The White House is down playing speculation Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the vice presidential nominee in 2012. “No one in the White House is discussing this as a possibility,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told CNN. The speculation began after veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said in [...]
Bloomberg: The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.4 percent from June, the U.S. Department of [...]
Fox News: For parishioners of the Westboro Baptist Church, Wednesday’s case at the Supreme Court is more than an hour of legal debate over the constitutionality of military funeral protests; it will also mark the end of their “I-70 GodSmack Tour” of protests across the country. The group’s last picket before they arrive at the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln and bought by Robert F. Kennedy, who drew inspiration from the document as he enforced civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is going up for auction and could fetch as much as $1.5 million. Kennedy bought the printed copy of the 1863 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Desperate for jobs and cool toward President Barack Obama, working-class whites are flocking to Republicans, turning a group long wary of Democrats into an even bigger impediment to the party’s drive to keep control of Congress. An Associated Press-GfK poll shows whites without four-year college degrees preferring GOP candidates by twice the [...]
Not always, but sometimes, comedy is ugly, unforgiven by the snubbing of humor and its better supporting players, both no-shows. And then there’s all the crazy that creates this sorry state in the first place. There’s a solid list of all of the above both driving and inhabiting this “weirdest” of Olbermann clips, and it [...]
Washington Post: Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources. The talks follow inconclusive meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year ago. While emphasizing the preliminary nature of the current discussions, [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — With four weeks until Congressional elections that will shape the remainder of his term, President Obama is increasingly focused on generating enthusiasm within the base that helped put him in the White House two years ago, from college students to African-Americans. But Mr. Obama has aimed much of his prodding [...]
Jerusalem Post: The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it had won the backing of Egypt, Jordan and several other Arab countries for its refusal to return to the negotiating table unless Israel extended the moratorium on settlement construction. The announcement was made following a meeting in Cairo between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—A new White House assessment steps up criticism of Pakistan’s campaign against militants, stating bluntly that its government and military have been unwilling to take action against al Qaeda and like-minded terrorists. The aggressive language of the report—which also criticizes the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari—could further strain difficult relations with [...]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan torched eight NATO oil tankers and shot dead a driver Wednesday, police said, in the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since Pakistan shut a key border crossing to international forces last week. The attack occurred in a parking area of a roadside hotel on [...]
