WASHINGTON (AP) — The AFL-CIO hopes to boost its clout by launching a new political action committee that could raise unlimited amounts of money, part of the federation’s goal of building a year-round political organizing structure. Forming a so-called “super labor PAC” would allow the labor federation to raise money from sympathetic donors both inside [...]
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Washington Times: DETROIT — A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts – one that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law – has reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims. The Michigan bill, which mirrors “American Laws for American Courts” legislation introduced in more than 20 [...]
“Rebels appear to have voluntarily pulled back from much of the territory they took almost as soon as they took it.” Washington Post: TRIPOLI, Libya — Forces loyal to the fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the night before, forcing them to [...]
Mediaite: CNN host Piers Morgan and Countdown’s Keith Olbermann, each well-known for their propensity to feud, squared off on Twitter last week when Olbermann used the occasion of Christine O’Donnell’s walk-off to take a shot at Morgan. In response, Morgan mocked the size of Olbermann’s audience, called him a “coward,” and issued a challenge for [...]
Listen to internet radio with Pat Dollards Nightwatch on Blog Talk Radio by Douglas Matthew Stewart @dmatthewstewart Between June 2010 and March 2011 Rolling Stone magazine did their best to to smear the U.S. Military in Afghanistan. Now, the official CENTCOMM report regarding the Rolling Stone fiasco has been declassified. First was the obvious hit [...]
Fox News: Saif al-Islam, the son of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi, appeared at a Libyan hotel early Tuesday morning despite widely circulated reports of his capture during the rebels’ move into Tripoli a day earlier. Saif arrived in a convoy with armed men at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told Fox News that the rebels [...]
NY Times: Standard & Poor’s said late on Monday that its president, Deven Sharma, will step down and leave the company by the end of the year. He will be replaced by Douglas Peterson, a top executive at Citigroup. The decision by Mr. Sharma to resign comes as the ratings agency is under pressure from [...]
Soros has a major new interview in Germany’s top magazine, Der Spiegel, where he basically lays out his analysis of the current global economic crisis. Excerpted from Der Spiegel: SPIEGEL: President Barack Obama has been fiercely criticized for his handling of the economy. You were one of his biggest supporters in 2008. Are you happy [...]
CBS News: The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion. It’s the most rapid increase in the debt [...]
The Hill: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) would beat President Obama among registered voters, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) would tie the president if the election were held today, according to a new Gallup Poll. Obama leads GOP Reps. Ron Paul (Texas) and Michele Bachmann (Minn.) among registered voters, but by 2 percent [...]
CNS.com In the same week that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department was going to review the cases of 300,000 illegal aliens in deportation proceedings and allow “low priority” cases to stay in the country and receive work permits—a move House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith called a “back door amnesty”—President Barack Obama’s [...]
Detroit Free Press: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will join thousands of union members at Labor Day festivities in Detroit, the Free Press has learned. Obama will deliver remarks at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Labor Council, according to a White House official with knowledge of the trip. While no other [...]
