Donald Trump released the following statement just moments ago: For Immediate Release: New York, New York: May 16, 2011 After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking [...]
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default. The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing and reinvesting government securities in certain government pension plans, part of a series of steps designed [...]
Reuters: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress he would start tapping into federal pension funds on Monday to free up borrowing capacity as the nation hits the $14.294 trillion legal limit on its debt. The Treasury will issue $72 billion in bonds and notes on Monday, pushing the nation right up against its borrowing cap [...]
CBS Baltimore: HAGERSTOWN, Md. (WJZ) — Despite overwhelming evidence that President Obama was born in the U.S., some people refuse to believe it. Adam May reports Terry Lakin is a leader among this group and a controversial Maryland Army doctor who was just released from prison. He was released Friday after serving five months of [...]
Seems to me that Boehner must be doing something right to warrant such an attack by Soros. AIM.com: A Washington Post story about Catholic professors challenging Rep. John Boehner’s Catholic faith with an open letter to the House Speaker ignores the role of one of the key signers in a George Soros-funded group. The letter [...]
The Hill: Key members of the conservative Republican Study Committee introduced a bill to make good on their pledge to “cut, cap and balance” federal spending. RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) endorsed the bill submitted Friday by top-ranking GOP appropriator Rep. Jack Kingston (Ga.) that would cap spending at 18 percent of GDP. “It’s [...]
Excerpted from Mediaite: In a Twitter posting to his 89,805 followers Sunday night, CNN anchor Don Lemon linked to a New York Times story that reveals he is gay. “I’m scared,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’m talking about something that people might shun me for, ostracize me for.” Lemon reveals to Carter that, [...]
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Israel National News Two Jewish NGOs recently discovered that they have been barred from participating in a United Nations conference. It began when the Office of Israeli Constitutional Law (OFICL), an Israeli legal action organization, received notice from the UN that their registration for this year’s Conference of the United Nations Permanent forum on Indigenous [...]
The Guardian: Talks on resolving the European debt crisis have been plunged into disarray after the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a maid in a New York hotel. Strauss-Kahn, 62, was taken from the first class cabin of a Paris-bound Air [...]
PARIS (AP) – The stunning arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in connection with a sexual assault in New York is throwing the French presidential race into disarray. Some rivals and political observers said it could bury any presidential bid by Strauss-Kahn, considered the strongest potential challenger to unseat the unpopular President Nicolas Sarkozy in [...]
LA Times Presidential contender Newt Gingrich took a potshot Sunday at Republican House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan’s proposal to reform Medicare, becoming the most prominent Republican to distance himself from the plan. Ryan’s proposal, which was passed by the GOP-controlled House in April, would have people 54 and younger choose from a list of [...]
MSNBC It took 37 days and a group of determined animal lovers, but a donkey from Iraq is now a U.S. resident. Smoke The Donkey, who became a friend and mascot to a group of U.S. Marines living in Iraq’s Anbar Province nearly three years ago, arrived in New York this week aboard a cargo [...]
Arizona Republic: Some of the best-known names in the possible mix for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are finding that their own worst enemies may be themselves. So far, pollsters are detecting a general lack of enthusiasm among GOP voters for even the most popular of the potential contenders. But three high-profile possibilities in particular [...]
The Hill: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will announce sometime this week whether he plans to run to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.). The House Budget Committee chairman’s name was quickly passed around as a potential candidate when Kohl announced his retirement Friday, but he said Sunday he had reached no decision [...]
MATEHUALA, Mexico (AP) – The customer known only as “Cesar of Huizache” had an odd request for shoemaker Dario Calderon: He showed him a cell-phone photo of a sequined cowboy boot with pointy toes so long, they curled up toward the knees. He wanted a pair, but with longer toes. “I thought ‘What’s up with [...]
