The Week: As Washington’s debt ceiling stalemate threatens the American economy, conservative Republicans warn of dire consequences — for President Obama Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took the rhetoric in the debt ceiling debate to a new level on Monday, saying via Twitter that President Obama could be impeached if he lets the U.S. default on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Republicans on Tuesday balked at House GOP leaders’ pleas to stop whining and back their plan to slash spending and increase the nation’s borrowing authority, jeopardizing the party’s suggested path out of the debt crisis. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is trying to round up the votes for his plan to [...]
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Tuesday bluntly told House Republicans to stop “grumbling and whining” about Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) new proposal for a limited debt-limit increase. Cantor made the statement in a closed-door conference meeting, a Republican with knowledge of his remarks told The Hill. Boehner and Cantor are trying to rally restive [...]
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Los AngelesTimes: With all of the spotlights on the high-stakes debt maneuverings by President Obama and Speaker John Boehner the last few days, few people noticed what Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” This is political treason 469 days before a [...]
Fox News: Afghanistan – Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy. The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his son. Late last night, a courageous Afghan journalist named Mustafa [...]
MSNBC: Conservative commentator Glenn Beck compared the victims of the shooting spree at a Norway summer camp to Nazi’s youth movement, drawing international ire. “There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever,” Beck said on his radio show Monday, which is broadcast on more than [...]
Fox News: Democratic Rep. David Wu, facing eroding support from his party, plans to resign following allegations that he had a forced sexual encounter with a young woman last year. The Oregon congressman said Tuesday that he would step down pending “resolution” of the debt-ceiling crisis. The announcement comes after he initially told colleagues he [...]
“Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own,” Obama told members of a National Council of La Raza conference who shouted back, “Yes, you can! Yes, you can!”
In the latest chapter of the gunrunning scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, federal officials won’t say how two suspects obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun. Under current federal law, people with felony convictions are not permitted to buy weapons, and those [...]
CBS: OSLO, Norway – Anders Behring Breivik’s defense lawyer said today that Breivik is not aware of the death toll or the public response to attacks that left 76 people dead, and the whole case suggests his client is insane. Geir Lippestad did not say whether he would seek an insanity defense for Breivik, but [...]
Visionary writer/artist Frank Miller, creator of such successful books as 300, Watchmen, Sin City, and Ronin, has announced the release of his upcoming graphic novel for the modern era – ‘Holy Terror,’ a no-holds-barred story of Jihadi-killing superhero, “The Fixer.” Miller describes the work as an intentional piece of pro-American propaganda, and will release the [...]
Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state’s public colleges and universities. The bill, dubbed the California Dream Act, passed the state Legislature earlier this month and aims at helping illegal immigrants who earned a [...]
Boston Globe: President Obama urged Congress last night to break through partisan bickering and pass a comprehensive deal that would prevent the nation from defaulting in a week and protect Americans from the pain of inaction. Invoking the words and actions of Ronald Reagan and hinting of impending economic havoc, the president said in a [...]
