And Julian Assange should resign from life… Time: Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.” Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel over the diplomatic-cable dump that Assange’s organization loosed on the world this past weekend. Stengel had said [...]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – One of the first subjects Laura Schlessinger will tackle in depth on her new Sirius XM Radio talk show in the new year is the one that nearly derailed her. In confirming the exclusive arrangement to bring her talk show to satellite radio beginning Jan, 3, Schlessinger said Monday she [...]
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co said on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to develop more electric cars and hybrids as it launched its battery-powered Chevrolet Volt. “Volt clearly demonstrates that we are well on our way and it is especially true when it comes [...]
CBS News: NEW YORK (CBS/AP) – The WikiLeaks website said it came under a forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday morning, making some of the content, including the controversial “Cablegate” documents, inaccessible for hours to users in the U.S. and Europe. The site appears to have responded by switching its main hosting base from Sweden to [...]
Joe Scarborough in Politico: Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private. Enough. It’s [...]
The best thing Jimmy Carter could do for Obama is disappear and shut the f- up and stop reminding people how much he reminds them of Obama. Politics Daily: by Tom Diemer Jimmy Carter, a one-term president, visited Tuesday at the White House where another Democratic president, Barack Obama, is hoping to avoid Carter’s fate [...]
The Hill: President Obama and Republican leaders voiced optimism for a new bipartisan spirit after a White House meeting Tuesday, even as they appeared to edge no closer to a deal on the expiring Bush tax cuts. The president acknowledged to Republicans that he did not reach out to them as much as he should [...]
AZ Central: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush accused Democrats Tuesday of shamelessly playing politics with immigration. His uncharacteristically sharp comments came during a discussion of the DREAM Act, which Democrats and the White House are pushing hard in the lame-duck session despite its virtually nonexistent chances of passage. “It’s used as a political tool for [...]
Washington Post: The Pentagon’s long-awaited report on gays in the military concludes that repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” law would present only a low risk to the armed forces’ ability to carry out their missions and that 70 percent of service members believe it would have little or no effect on their units. [...]
The Hill: The Senate on Tuesday morning defeated a proposal from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to ban congressional earmarks. In a 39-56 vote, members defeated a temporary ban on the appropriations procedure. The moratorium was offered as an amendment to a food-safety bill that is scheduled for a final vote Tuesday morning. Senate Republicans have [...]
Fox News: President Obama, after meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats for the first time since the midterm election, announced Tuesday that he’s assembling a special panel to work toward breaking the logjam over the Bush tax cuts. Though he emerged without a compromise, he expressed confidence that the talks would “yield results” before the [...]
BEIJING (AP) – Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show China’s frustration with communist ally North Korea and speculate Beijing would accept a future Korean peninsula unified under South Korean rule, according to the documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. The memos indicate the enormous import American and South Korean diplomats place on China’s attitude toward the [...]
Washington Times: Seven months after the Senate knocked down the idea of a value-added tax, the VAT is back on the table – one of a host of familiar proposals that has been recycled as a proposed answer to the nation’s financial problems. Entitlement cuts, military spending cuts and new taxes such as the VAT [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Marinette, Wis. — A teenager armed with a handgun held two dozen students and a teacher hostage in a Wisconsin high school for about five hours before shooting himself when police broke into the classroom, authorities said Monday. No other injuries were reported. Officers outside the Marinette High School classroom [...]
