Roll Call: On Nov. 5, 2009, at the behest of Rep. Michele Bachmann, thousands of tea party activists descended on the Capitol to vent their rage over the health care overhaul bill pending before Congress. The assembled activists chanted, “Kill the bill! Kill the bill!” and waved signs opposing a government takeover of health care [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the largest employment discrimination case in the nation’s history. The suit, against Wal-Mart Stores, had sought to consolidate the claims of as many as 1.5 million women on the theory that the company had discriminated against them in pay and promotion decisions. The [...]
New York Times: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Toor Jan, who used to kill Americans and Canadians here, does not want much from the Afghan government. A home. A job. And, yes, eight security guards. He needs them. As one of the few Taliban commanders to switch sides, he is a target. In a rare interview, the [...]
Politico: Leaders of a national Hispanic organization are criticizing President Barack Obama for skipping their annual conference for the third consecutive year after he promised as a candidate in 2008 that he would return as president. Some members of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials also are questioning Obama’s commitment to immigration [...]
PHYSORG: State lawmakers have passed a bill that allows Texans to skirt federal efforts to promote more efficient light bulbs, which ultimately pushes the swirled, compact fluorescent bulbs over the 100-watt incandescent bulbs many grew up with. The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration, lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas – [...]
The Sun: David Hart, 23, took out life insurance before he went to Afghanistan. And he wrote a letter saying a chunk of the £250,000 policy proceeds should pay for his pals and their girlfriends to go on a party trip in his memory if he died. Now 32 friends are jetting to the US [...]
CSMonitor: Texas Gov. Rick Perry sounds more like a presidential candidate by the day. This weekend he gave a rousing speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in which he blasted the Obama administration as a bunch of smarty-pants busy-bodies. “They clearly think they know best,” said Governor Perry. “And let me tell you, I vehemently [...]
Daily Mail A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation. Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a [...]
FoxNews: The anarchist hackers of the world are uniting. In a statement released over the weekend, rogue hacker group LulzSec — which in recent weeks has defaced and disabled sites from Sony to the CIA — has pledged to unite with its sister collective Anonymous in a new cybercampaign against the world’s governments. Codenamed Operation [...]
NY Times WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates acknowledged on Sunday that the United States had begun preliminary talks with members of the Taliban as part of an effort to end the war in Afghanistan. But as he pressed his case against withdrawing a significant number of American troops from the region this year, [...]
CNN: Washington — A bomb threat made at an airport ticket counter in Dayton, Ohio, prompted a search of a US Airways flight that landed safely at Washington’s Reagan airport Sunday, authorities said. A law enforcement official said Sunday afternoon that no explosives have been found and the scene is now clear. The woman who [...]
Yahoo News: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator John McCain, his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, ripped into the current crop of Republican White House contenders, accusing them of breaking party tradition by preaching “isolationism.” McCain said if former President Ronald Reagan were still alive he would have been disappointed in last week’s Republican presidential debate in [...]
Judicial Watch: A Judicial Watch investigation reveals that federal funding for a Mexican La Raza group that for years has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House. The influential and politically-connected National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has long benefitted [...]
Alternative News Media: Ron Paul has won the SRLC straw poll with 612 votes. Jon Huntsman (CFR) came in second I think with over 300 votes. Romney had less than 100. The crowd (by the time they announced) appeared to be largely neoconservative (pro war) but there was a mix of boo’s and cheers. What [...]
