CAIRO (AP) — Cairo residents boarded up homes and set up neighborhood watches of citizens armed with guns, clubs and knives as looting and violence engulfed the capital. With the police having disappeared from the streets, the army expanded its presence of tanks and armored personnel carriers but mainly around government buildings. As night fell [...]
From Breitbart TV: So, what was really up with the televised feed of Rep. Bachmann’s State of the Union response? Our sources tell us that CNN had originally agreed to use the live feed set up by Tea Party Express, which had a teleprompter running on the lens in which Rep. Bachmann was delivering her [...]
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PHOENIX (AP) – The office of an Arizona sheriff known for his efforts against illegal immigrants has arrested 83 people during a two-day crime sweep targeting illegal immigrants. Of those arrested, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that 68 were illegal immigrants. Those who were not illegal immigrants were arrested for crimes including drug [...]
Politico: The federal lawsuits against last year’s health care overhaul were greeted with eye-rolling and snickers from many conventional legal scholars. Nobody’s laughing now. A federal judge in Virginia ruled late last year that a key underpinning of the health care law stretches the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution past the breaking point, while [...]
Washington (AP) – Buoyed by expanded majorities, Republicans at the state level are stepping up their push to pass Arizona-style immigration laws even as a federal court weighs whether to strike down the original legislation. Mississippi was the latest state to make gains on the issue, with the state House voting Thursday for a bill [...]
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Time: The language coming out of the Obama Administration has verged on the bizarre as Egypt lurched into another political showdown in the streets on Friday – the latest demonstration saw thousands of anti-government protesters clash with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the crowds and used tear gas and water cannons on [...]
New York Times: TEHRAN — Hopeful that the protests sweeping Arab lands may create an opening for hard-line Islamic forces, conservatives in Iran are taking deep satisfaction in the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, where secular leaders have faced large-scale uprisings. While the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confronted its own popular uprising two [...]
The Hill: The administration tried to strike a cautious balance Friday between backing a longtime U.S. ally and supporting pro-democracy demonstrators as violent protests against the regime in Egypt spiraled out of control. After a day of wondering whether President Obama would speak on the crisis, the commander in chief spoke to reporters in the [...]
The Telegraph: The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police. On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan [...]
