Fox News: TRIPOLI, Libya – DEVELOPING: A group of Libyan rebels claimed Thursday that they have surrounded Muammar Qaddafi in a cluster of apartment buildings in Tripoli, Reuters news agency reported. Rebels battled pro-Muammar Qaddafi forces Thursday in Libya’s east and faced stubborn resistance in the capital while the opposition moved to assert control over [...]
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USA Today: Nearly one in 10 midsize or large employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers once federal insurance exchanges start in 2014, according to a survey from a large benefits consultant. Towers Watson also found in a survey completed last month that an additional 20% of companies are unsure about what they [...]
Israeli National News: The Muslim Brotherhood has threatened to kill Israel’s ambassador to Cairo if he does not leave the country. The radical Muslim group has been leading daily protests at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the envoy and a break in relations between Egypt and Israel. Hundreds of demonstrators surrounded [...]
Washington Jewish Week: Believe it or not, Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a hand in preventing those pesky Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotillas” from ever reaching Israeli waters. Perry, a devout Christian who loves the Jewish state, has taken many trips to Israel — more than any other Republican candidate, in fact. While on one of those [...]
First it was this: ABC’s Jake Tapper: In response to a question at a town hall in Decorah, Iowa, Monday evening, President Obama said that when Congress returns in September, “I’ll be putting forward . . . a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit. And my [...]
Gallup: PRINCETON, NJ — Shortly after announcing his official candidacy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has emerged as rank-and-file Republicans’ current favorite for their party’s 2012 presidential nomination. Twenty-nine percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide say they are most likely to support Perry, with Mitt Romney next, at 17%.
Politico: The Congressional Budget Office painted a dreary economic picture Wednesday in a new report that warns of “profound budgetary and economic challenges” ahead. The national unemployment rate — now at 9.1 percent — isn’t expected to drop below 8 percent until 2014, according to the report on the country’s budget and economic outlook. House [...]
American Thinker: Florida Republican Congressman John Mica offered the following morally clear Amendment (5/25/2011-H.AMDT.318 (A018) Amends H.R.1540): Amendment requires that the rules of engagement [ROE] allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a designated hostile fire area to have rules of engagement that fully protect their right to proactively defend themselves from hostile [...]
(Reuters) – Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage. Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent in after-hours trade after the pancreatic cancer survivor and industry icon, who has [...]
Washington Examiner: It looks like Joe Wurzelbacher — better known as “Joe the Plumber,” the guy who got famous for criticizing Obama on the campaign trail in 2008 — might actually run for Congress … if some Ohio Republicans have any say about it. The Toledo Blade reports a “high-level interest in the national Republican [...]
Excerpted from the Daily Caller: Rubio has to be on the short list of potential GOP running mates. But the downside is that there is already a movement afoot (led by some on the fringe) to disqualify him from serving as president (which would presumably disqualify him from serving as vice president). That’s right — [...]
Breitbart.tv: Before playing a perfectly reasonable quote from Gov. Rick Perry where he praises the growth of civil rights in the United States over the decades and discusses the continuing promise of economic freedom for people of all races and ethnicities, NBC News anchor Chris Jansing claimed that Perry was comparing the civil rights struggles [...]
