The Hill: Verizon issued a challenge on Thursday to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net-neutrality order. The company filed the challenge in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected the FCC’s net-neutrality arguments a year ago. Michael Glover, Verizon’s deputy general counsel, said in a statement that the appeal follows a “careful review” of [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is secretly backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war and jihad movement by protecting government leaders, training Somali militias, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to [...]
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law. The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law. The six additional states joined Florida [...]
Fox News: Welfare benefits for the children of illegal immigrants cost America’s largest county more than $600 million last year, according to a local official keeping tabs on the cost. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich released new statistics this week showing social spending for those families in his county rose to $53 million in [...]
Fox News: Is MTV now a purveyor of kiddie porn? The controversial British import series “Skins” made its debut on the cable network last Monday, causing uproar for its frank depiction of teenage sex and drug use. The Parents Television Council called the show the “most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – More than 120 organized crime associates face charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history, prosecutors announced Thursday. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference Thursday in New York City that the 127 defendants include high-ranking members of the [...]
Obama: “We do not seek to contain China’s rise. Washington Times: People’s Daily, on the eve of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington. The article went on to boast how “China’s emergence is increasingly shifting to debate over how the world will treat China, which is the world No. 1 and has overtaken [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly muscular House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s health care overhaul — a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama is certain to veto it should it somehow pass through Congress. The House passed the bill 245-189 with three Democrats [...]
Washington Post: TUCSON – A federal grand jury indicted accused Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner on three counts Wednesday, with prosecutors saying that more indictments could be on the way for the 22-year-old. The news came on the same day that aides to wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) announced her scheduled transfer Friday from a [...]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Less than two weeks after surviving a bullet through the brain, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood up and looked out the window of her hospital room Wednesday as she prepares to move to Houston to begin an arduous journey of intensive mental and physical rehabilitation. Hospital spokeswoman Janet Stark said Giffords was [...]
Just got back into town after leaving for an unexpected field mission night before last. Ran late, had expected to be back this morning. I’ve got a backlog of three, long, written pieces that I have to finish. News updates will re-continue here shortly, as soon as they are through. It’s pretty crazy around here [...]
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