NY Times: Angry villagers stoned to death a local Taliban commander and his bodyguard in southern Afghanistan Sunday after they killed a 60-year-old man accused of aiding the government, Afghan officials said. It was a rare reversal of brutality aimed at the Taliban, and, some Afghan officials believe, suggests a growing sense of security in [...]
Investor’s Business Daily: With his boss on vacation, Vice President Joe Biden has a very important job to do. He’s in China, begging communist officials to please keep buying our bonds. If they do, what’s he giving them in return? Sending Biden to China, pardon the phrase, raises red flags about what we might commit [...]
Authorities say an aerial wing walker stuntman has been killed in a 200-foot fall while performing a stunt at an air show at an air base near Detroit.
Fox News: With another Arab country on the cusp of deposing its leader, U.S. and European leaders are greeting the looming regime change in Libya with a mix of triumph and trepidation. The Obama administration and its allies surely will cast the rebels’ swift and decisive advance into Tripoli over the weekend as a vindication [...]
(CNN) — The U.N. Human Rights Council is scheduled to meet Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss allegations of human rights violations in Syria. The special meeting comes after the United Nations sent a humanitarian mission to Syria this weekend to look for effects of President Bashar al-Assad’s protest crackdown. Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for [...]
Why is it that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), regularly named as an “unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case”, remains unindicted? In April this year, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who is holding hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in the US, wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder to ask him why. [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s opposition leader says rebels captured another of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — raising to three the number of the Libyan leader’s children in custody. Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council, told the Associated Press on Monday that rebels detained al-Saadi Gadhafi on Sunday night along with his brother Seif [...]
(Reuters) – Consumer confidence has fallen further after weeks of intensified economic concerns and broad stock market declines, and Conference Board data due later this month could be even weaker than current projections suggest, Consumer Edge Research said on Monday. Readings from high, middle and low-income consumers all deteriorated sharply, due mainly to dramatic declines [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can’t find new ones in an economy [...]
Military.com: WASHINGTON — It sounds like a pretty good deal: Retire at age 38 after 20 years of work and get a monthly pension of half your salary for the rest of your life. All you have to do is join the military. As the nation tightens its budget belt, the century-old military retirement system [...]
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NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices around the world should start falling if Libyan rebels succeed in toppling Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, though the full effect won’t be felt for months. On Sunday night, rebel forces pushed into Tripoli without meeting much resistance, hours after they overran a major military base that defended the capital. Opposition [...]
Tonight, the momentum against the Qadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. The Qadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator. The surest [...]
