Baghdad (AP) – In the single largest loss of life for the American military in Iraq in the past two years, five troops were killed in central Iraq, U.S. officials said. An Iraqi police officer and Iraqi interior ministry official said five rockets struck the Camp Victory base on the outskirts of Baghdad, AFP reported. [...]
RedState.com A closer look at the Moscow-funded Russia Today television channel, whose host, American Adam Kokesh, was arrested after a disruption last Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial, reveals some interesting and disturbing corporate and foreign intelligence connections. As AIM reported, Kokesh, who hosts the show, “Adam Vs. The Man,” joined with pro-Marxist agitator Medea Benjamin [...]
The Hill: A documentary film about Sarah Palin set to be released next month is fueling more speculation that she is edging closer to jumping into the race for the GOP presidential nomination. The nearly two-hour long film, titled “The Undefeated,” portrays Palin’s time as Alaska’s governor in a positive light and touts her as [...]
CAIRO (AP) – A poll released Sunday indicates that at this point, only a small minority of Egyptians support the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, and less than 1 percent favor an Iran-style Islamic theocracy. The Gallup poll conducted after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak found that while 69 percent of Egyptians want religious leaders to [...]
Austan Goolsbee Washington Times: The drumbeat of sobering economic news in the country has the White House on the defensive. White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, in an appearance Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” objected testily to the use of the term “jobless recovery.” “It is not a ‘jobless recovery.’ That is an incorrect phrase,” [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO — The International Monetary Fund agreed Sunday to a $3 billion loan to help Egypt overcome a cash crunch and boost salaries in the wake of the pro-democracy uprising that toppled its longtime president. The world’s most populous Arab nation has been struggling to close a $10 billion budget deficit for the [...]
Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach County Democratic activists got some coaching last week on getting loud and getting ejected when U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, holds another town hall meeting Thursday in Boca Raton. “Make your voice heard. Get angry. Get upset – because you are .. .Attend every single town hall and get loud. [...]
Los Angeles Times: The U.S. has a tradition of being suspicious, and the Internet is feeding that skepticism. As of late, there are tales spinning about Osama bin Laden and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Osama bin Laden is alive and well. President Obama is a closet Kenyan. Arnold Schwarzenegger hid his out-of-wedlock child with the help of [...]
Fox News: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed his concern about pulling troops out of Afghanistan too soon as he embarked Sunday on two days of farewell visits to remote U.S. bases in this war-weary country. He began by flying to a base near Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan, where he was greeted by soldiers [...]
BONN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) – The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday. Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference [...]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court on Friday reversed a ban won by an agnostic family that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations were unconstitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley [...]
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The Daily: As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online. But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of [...]
