Politico: With the federal indictment Friday of former presidential candidate John Edwards, the Justice Department is seeking to prove not only Edwards’s guilt but its own ability to enforce the country’s tattered campaign finance laws. Federal prosecutors regularly secure guilty pleas in campaign finance-related cases, but the Justice Department’s record in cases that go before [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will finally hit the links for a round of golf – and al fresco negotiation – on June 18, a White House official told POLITICO. Obama’s offer — and Boehner’s acceptance — came six months after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested the two [...]
Weekly Standard: According to the unemployment data released this morning, the economy added only 54,000 jobs, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent. However, this report from MarketWatch suggests the data is much worse than that: McDonald’s ran a big hiring day on April 19 — after the Labor Department’s April survey for the [...]
CNN: Washington — The Republican-controlled House of Representatives issued a rebuke of President Barack Obama’s Libya policy Friday, passing a measure declaring that the president has failed to provide a “compelling rationale” for military involvement in the North African country. The non-binding resolution criticizes the president for insufficiently consulting Congress before launching air strikes in [...]
The Hill: The attempt by Republicans to tie Medicare reforms to negotiations on raising the debt ceiling is “absolutely irresponsible,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Friday. Reed and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the HELP committee, took their strongest stance yet on the issue during a conference call with reporters. Vice President Biden has [...]
Update 2: Just spoke to Mark Harvey. He says they are all armed. And more. Full update shortly. UPDATE 1: I’ve left a voicemail message for Mark Harvey on his cell phone, to get more details. Will post as soon as I have them. Published by Mark Harvey at The Snooper Report. This is clearly [...]
Reuters: LONDON – British spies hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with recipes for making cupcakes, newspapers reported on Friday. The cyber offensive took place last year when the English language magazine called Inspire, aimed at Muslims in the West, was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in [...]
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Washington Examiner: President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money. Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Politico: There are two camps of crisis management — and thus far, Anthony Weiner seems to be keeping his feet firmly planted outside both of them. College public relations textbooks urge full transparency, getting everything out immediately and fully, while another school — embodied by a host of scandal-scarred pols over the years — urges [...]
NewsOK: Will Rogers World Airport has been evacuated due to a suspicious package found in the baggage claim area, airport spokeswoman Karen Carney said. The ticket counter and baggage area were evacuated about 9:40 a.m. All passengers who had already gone through security checkpoint were evacuated to the west side of the airport, Carney said. [...]
Washington Post: Employers pulled back sharply on job creation in May, and the unemployment rate took a surprising jump, according to new data Friday, confirming worries that the economy is losing momentum — and fast. Employers added only 54,000 jobs in May, down from a revised 232,000 in April, the Labor Department said Friday morning. [...]
Washington Post: Former vice presidential nominee John Edwards was indicted Friday on charges of violating federal election law for allegedly using nearly $1 million in illegal campaign donations to conceal an extramarital affair during his 2008 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The former U.S. senator from North Carolina was charged in a six-count indictment [...]
