Los Angeles Times: It has taken businessman John Aglialoro nearly 20 years to realize his ambition of making a movie out of “Atlas Shrugged,” the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand that has sold more than 7 million copies and has as passionate a following among many political conservatives and libertarians as “Twilight” has among teen [...]
DALLAS (AP) — A massive range fire burned as much as 125 sq. miles Saturday in West Texas, and firefighters were bracing for the possibility the situation could worsen Sunday because of dry, windy conditions. The enormous fire scorching largely rural Stonewall, King and Knox counties had become the largest in the nation, officials said [...]
Israel Today: For those who thought the Egyptian revolution is done and past, think again. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be gone, but the country is currently being ruled by a temporary military regime, which means there are various forces still vying for future control of the Middle East’s largest military power. And with [...]
Most extraordinary statement of the week. What she’s basically saying is that the Dems have worked very hard to nullify the GOP into a shadow Dem party of Rinos, and she and the rest of the Dems don’t like the fact that the Tea Party threatens to derail all those decades of Dem work to [...]
Fox News: White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Sunday that President Obama plans to outline a new proposal for bringing down the federal deficit this week. The announcement comes shortly after the White House reached a deal with Congress to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, and ahead of two [...]
The Hill: The White House on Saturday released some details of the budget deal that congressional leaders agreed to late Friday. The information was delivered in a blog post on the White House website, which also pushed the administration’s message that the spending compromises made by all sides would add up to a victory for [...]
Politico: The $38.5 billion deal brokered between Republicans and President Barack Obama on Friday night may have resolved the immediate threat of a government shutdown. But it didn’t take long for many liberal Democrats to begin to realize that there might be not much cause for celebration in the substance of that deal. In the [...]
(CNSNews.com) – The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September. The debt was $14.2101 trillion [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — The emergence of abortion as the last and most contentious of the issues that held up the budget deal reached Friday night highlighted the enduring influence of social conservatives within the Republican Party even at a time when the Tea Party movement’s focus on fiscal austerity is getting most of [...]
BBC The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children’s show Sesame Street. In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID – the development arm of the US government – is donating $20m (£12m) to the country to create a local Urdu version of the show. The [...]
NewAmerican Government documents show that more than a few major media organizations including the Washington Post, NBC, Reuters, newspaper giant Gannett, and CBS are all raking in cash from a $5 billion slush fund set up under ObamaCare, causing outrage among critics and lawmakers who say the news providers should disclose the subsidies when reporting [...]
NewAmerican The General in charge of the U.S. African Command, Army General Carter Ham, told congressional leaders in a closed meeting April 5 that the military is considering sending ground troops into Libya. “I suspect there might be some consideration of that,” Ham told members of the House Armed Services Committee. “My personal view at [...]
The Telegraph A top Kremlin official has told the United States Russia wants “red button” rights to a new US-backed missile defence system for Europe, a move that would allow it to influence the shield’s day-to-day operational use. Sergey Ivanov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, made the controversial demand during a visit to the United States [...]
Fox News: When the GOP-led House voted in January to repeal President Obama’s health care law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn’t even take up the measure in his chamber and he scorned Republicans for wasting time on “symbolic votes.” But after Congress struck a last-minute budget deal Friday night to avert a [...]
