United Press International: ERBIL, Iraq, July 11 (UPI) — Iranian forces are stationed about a 1 1/2 miles inside the Iraq border as part of an operation targeting Kurdish militants, a border official claims. A source inside the border patrol in the northern Kurdish provinces of Iraq said Iranian forces crossed the border during the [...]
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St. Louis Today: “I couldn’t beat them; I didn’t have the resources they had. They had all the money in the world and the backing… I’m just an average man.” -Kenneth Gladney, during an interview outside of the courtroom after the trial Two men charged in an altercation outside a contentious town hall forum in [...]
The Ticket: Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul made a surprise announcement Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to Congress, spelling an end to a nearly 24-year House career amid his third run for president. “I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election,” Paul, 75, told The Facts. “It’s about that time [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—A “real solution” to U.S. fiscal problems isn’t possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, heightening the rhetoric surrounding the debt-ceiling debate. Mr. McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, and House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), both blamed President Obama for the stalemate [...]
The New York Slimes…errr, Times: AMHERST, N.H. — Aaron Fielding quietly stalks his prey — Republicans — with his video camera, patiently waiting for a political moment worthy of YouTube. At 27, he is a full-time “tracker” for American Bridge 21st Century, a new Democratic organization that aims to record every handshake, every utterance by [...]
Reuters: Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media. The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million — a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan [...]
Sunlight Foundation: Last year, four of the country’s biggest military contractors paid $100,000 or more to become top sponsors of a black tie charity gala that honored the influential former chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo. In exchange for that gift, some of the company’s top executives were placed at [...]
FoxNation: The unruly passenger who caused a commercial jet flying from Chicago to Germany to divert to Cleveland Friday is facing federal charges. The FBI said Monday that Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, aka Saleh Ali S. Alramaleh, age 21, of Riyadh Saudi Arabia, has been charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants. The [...]
I suggest that he declare the value of the ball he gave back – estimated to be worth upwards of $300,000 – as a tax writeoff… CBS: The tax man may be on the hunt for the super fan who caught Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit. Christian Lopez, 23, recovered the prized ball his father fumbled [...]
This is what you should expect to happen when you pull a contrived monetary system with an arbitrarily contrived value out a unicorn’s ass… RTÉ News: Credit ratings agency Moody’s has cut Ireland’s bonds to junk status and warned of further downgrades as the euro zone economy struggles to pull out of a financial crisis. [...]
Haver Analytics, Gluskin Sheff: There are now almost seven people in the total pool of available labor competing for every job opening on the market. Though this ratio has dropped from 10 people per opening in 2009, this statistical recovery and this ratio is still double the historical norm. A ‘healthy’ market is typically defined [...]
“Working Families”? What “working families”? This is the Obama economy.
CBS News: President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this [...]
Reports indicate that the Gaddafi regime has initiated contacts with various NATO members, particularly Western European nations. That France is acting unilaterally, and independently of NATO is quite an intriguing and telling clue. Whatever it is they might be offering is surely quite enticing if the dictator of Libya is considering taking the bait. Reuters: [...]
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National Post: It’s rare that I see a photograph that makes my blood roil in anger. Or that leads me to share the opinions of Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick. But a picture published in Saturday’s Star managed to do both in one afternoon. The photo depicts a row of girls sitting in the cafeteria [...]
Washington Times: The U.S. has compiled a wide body of intelligence on the locations of militant training camps in Pakistan, but has been unable to persuade Islamabad to shut them down, current and former officials say. A former senior administration official said the biggest concern is a network of camps in North Waziristan from which [...]
