WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county is correcting its count and giving an unofficial 7,500-vote lead to the incumbent in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive union rights law. Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that the votes weren’t reported to [...]
CSMonitor With UN-assisted operations taking place in Libya and Ivory Coast, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may have thought he chose a good time to make the case for continued strong US financial support of the United Nations. But when he made the trip from New York to Washington on Thursday, what the secretary-general got instead [...]
(Reuters) – The Arizona House on Thursday approved a landmark bill allowing guns on campuses, making it only the second state in the nation to allow firearms to be carried at colleges and universities. The Republican-led House voted 33 to 24 to allow firearms to be carried in the open or concealed in public rights [...]
Real Clear Politics: Senator: Obama May Have Planned Shutdown Last Year With “Malicious” Intent Freshman GOP Senator Mike Lee (Utah) says President Obama’s inability to get a budget passed last year may have been “deliberate.” “It was either irresponsible on one hand or deliberate and malicious on the other with intention to bring about a [...]
WASHINGTON – (AP) The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business loans and government-backed mortgages during peak home buying season. The dire message, delivered two days before the federal government’s [...]
Fox News: A new facility in Iran is being used to secretly produce components for the country’s renegade nuclear program, a well-known Iranian dissident tells FOX News. Alireza Jafarzadeh and his organization, Strategic Policy Counseling, have released a report that claims a clandestine facility, called TABA, has played an integral part in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The federal judge who struck down California’s gay marriage ban has confirmed that he’s gay. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker retired in February, several months after his landmark decision that’s being challenged in an appeals court. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Walker told reporters Wednesday that he never considered [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans advanced legislation Thursday to avoid a government shutdown for one more week, cut spending and fully fund the Pentagon, but the White House labeled the measure a distraction and said President Barack Obama would veto it. Obama said in a statement he believes “we need to put politics aside and [...]
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Rothschild, Morgan, Rockefeller Washington Post: by Dana Milbank On Friday, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8 percent,
Fox News: DEVELOPING: TOKYO — Japan’s northeastern coast has been rattled by a strong aftershock. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter. The warning was issued for a coastal area already ravaged by last month’s tsunami. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center tells Fox News they [...]
Politico: Call it a movement within a movement. Small pockets of tea party activists across the country are trying to build momentum for a modern-day constitutional convention, ramping up pressure on Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment and address the debt crisis. It would take 34 states to approve such a convention, so it remains [...]
Politico: A prominent libertarian constitutional lawyer and civil libertarian has drafted an article of impeachment against President Obama over his attack on Libya, throwing down a legal gauntlet that could be picked up by some Congressional Republicans Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration official in the Department of Justice and chairman of American Freedom Agenda [...]
