LOS ANGELES (AP) – Whether he was a Hollywood hitman or an ex-con with a big mouth still isn’t known. One thing is certain about the man who shot himself to death when police converged on him to talk about the killing of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen: He was an armed career criminal possibly looking [...]
Democracy Now: The U.S. State Department has imposed an order barring employees from reading the leaked WikiLeaks cables. State Department staffers have been told not to read cables because they were classified and subject to security clearances. The State Department’s WikiLeaks censorship has even been extended to university students. An email to students at Columbia [...]
Washington Times: The State Department and other U.S. agencies are not fully cooperating with lawmakers’ efforts to probe the WikiLeaks security breach, according to the Republican likely to be the next chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and a senior member of the intelligence committee, said government [...]
Politico: Back from Afghanistan Saturday, President Barack Obama will find on his desk a two-week stopgap spending bill, designed to keep the government running through Dec. 18 but also marking a deadline of sorts for the quick deals he needs on taxes, the START nuclear arms treaty and next year’s spending. Each issue has its [...]
Fox Business: You’ll have to excuse many in the markets if it feels like that old Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day.” The panic gripping European bond markets in recent weeks is scarily similar to the fears that brought Wall Street to its knees two years ago. In each case, asset bubbles imploded, financial markets seized [...]
CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) – The skinny boy in a long-sleeved T-shirt and cargo pants looks younger than his 14 years as he stands surrounded by three Mexican soldiers in ski masks and camouflage, armed with automatic rifles. Authorities say the curly-haired teenager, a U.S. citizen, is the alleged child assassin, “El Ponchis,” made famous in [...]
Detroit News: Dearborn —Retired White House correspondent Helen Thomas isn’t backing down from controversial remarks she made this year about Israel that ended her career. “I stand by it. I told the truth,” the 90-year-old Thomas told reporters shortly before a speech at a diversity conference Thursday. “I paid a price but it’s worth it [...]
GOP House Leader Press Release: House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) this morning called on the lame-duck Congress to cut spending and stop all the looming tax hikes after the Department of Labor reported that unemployment rose to 9.8 percent in November despite Obama Administration projections that the ‘stimulus’ would keep unemployment below eight percent. Joblessness [...]
Fox News: The chiefs of the Army, Marines and Air Force warned Friday that implementing a repeal of the policy banning gays from serving openly in the military would be more difficult than a Pentagon study has suggested, challenging the assessments of other top military officials in the administration. Gen. James Amos, the Marine commandant, [...]
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in November and the unemployment rate rose, dashing hopes that the recovery is gaining momentum. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 39,000 last month as private-sector employers added only 50,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate, obtained from a separate household survey, unexpectedly [...]
Fox News: What goes around comes around: Someone is hacking the hacktivist. And it may be none other than the hacktivist himself. A self-described patriotic hacktivist known as “The Jester” — who has garnered a reputation for taking down jihadist websites and is believed by those familiar with his work to be responsible for taking [...]
ABC News: One year and two days after President Obama appeared before an audience at West Point and told the nation he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, he has come to meet with troops in the war-torn country for his second visit as commander-in-chief — where he was greeted by bad weather [...]
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Police investigating an arson fire at the Islamic center where the Somali-born suspect in a Portland mass killing plot sometimes worshipped have searched a neighboring home and taken body cell samples from the man who lives there, court records show. Authorities have been looking into whether the blaze at Corvallis’ Salman [...]
GQ Interview of Bloomberg: “The president, I think, needs some better advisers. He campaigns, ‘I’m gonna do A,’ and then he doesn’t do it. Now he’s pissed off the supporters and the opponents. You go for it.” Asked if he had any recommendations, Bloomberg told the magazine: “No. I don’t know. David Axelrod, when I’ve [...]
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Grayson: Madam Speaker, we’ve heard endless braying from the Republicans, time after time, demanding an extension of tax cuts for the rich in this country. They tell us that somehow extending tax cuts for the rich will somehow create jobs. When we’ve had tax cuts for the rich for nine years and I haven’t noticed [...]
