Gallup: Margin marks first statistically significant lead among registered voters PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters by a significant margin now say they are more likely to vote for the “Republican Party’s candidate for president” than for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, 47% to 39%. Preferences had been fairly evenly divided this year in [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are rallying behind a long-shot bid for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. But they’re divided over conservatives’ efforts to demand its passage as their price for backing any increase in the government’s borrowing limit. Right in the middle of their brawl with President Barack Obama over [...]
ABC News: Casey Anthony may be attracting death threats following her acquittal for murder, but she is also receiving checks in the mail from sympathetic admirers so that she has money to spend on cosmetics and snacks while in jail. Most of the strangers sending her money are men, but several women have also sent [...]
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Politico: Tensions are running so high over debt talks that Capitol Hill leaders are turning down a trip to Camp David before it’s even clear the White House has invited them. “The only thing I hope [President Obama] doesn’t ask us to do is to go to Camp David,” said Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on [...]
The Hill: The Pentagon released a long-promised cybersecurity plan Thursday that declares the Internet a domain of war. The plan notably does not spell out how the U.S. military would use the Web for offensive strikes. The Defense Department’s first-ever plan for cyberspace calls on the DoD to expand its ability to thwart attacks from [...]
Breitbart.tv: Continuing our series illustrating how MSNBC relies on Media Matters (the left-wing, partisan, non-profit organization whose dubious tax-exempt status is currently under fire) as their research department, we are pleased to present the Weinergate edition. When the Weinergate story finally made its way to the main stream media, Andrew Breitbart was interviewed about it [...]
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Townhall: Internal ATF emails seem to suggest that ATF agents were counseled to highlight a link between criminals and certain semi-automatic weapons in order to bolster a case for a rule like the one the DOJ announced on July 11, 2011: “The international expansion and increased violence of transnational criminal networks pose a significant threat [...]
CNN: After hinting for months that he would start a “trusted traveler” program to expedite security screening for air passengers, TSA Chief John Pistole took his first step in that direction Thursday, announcing a pilot program to ease screening for passengers who voluntarily release certain information about themselves. The pilot test is based on U.S. [...]
NOLA.com: BATON ROUGE — A federal lawsuit accusing two state agencies of failing to provide adequate voter registration services for people who get food stamps, disability payments and Medicaid will be fought in court, the state’s chief elections officer said Tuesday. “That is the plan at this time,” Secretary of State Tom Schedler said. “We [...]
After encouraging his “Friends With Benefits” co-star Mila Kunis to accept an invitation to the Marine Corps ball Justin Timberlake gets one of his own…
The Telegraph: It has taken two and a half years, but Barack “no drama” Obama has finally lost his cool. Liberals will ask what took him so long. Losing the public option on health care, failing to close Guantánamo, extending Bush tax cuts for the rich – none of this caused the famously cool operator [...]
Wall Street Journal: TOKYO—Japan grappled with a fresh radiation scare Tuesday, as authorities found that beef contaminated with radioactive cesium had been shipped to shops and restaurants throughout the country. The beef, from six cattle raised on a farm near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, registered radioactive-cesium levels up to seven times that permitted [...]
Such a humble man… Chicago Sun Times: President Obama returns to Chicago on Aug. 3 to mark his 50th birthday with fund-raisers at the Aragon Ballroom, with tickets ranging from $50 a person to $35,800 per couple, which includes VIP seating at a “Birthday Concert” where celebs will be performing and a dinner with the [...]
