JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to stop three days of violence, a Hamas official said Sunday, after a deadly attack on Israelis near the Egypt-Israel border set off a round of Israeli airstrikes and rocket barrages from Gaza. The sudden flareup also threatened Israel-Egypt relations, after Egypt said five [...]
LADSON, S.C.(AP) – Dale Richardson was saved at a tent revival 32 years ago, was called to preach the Lord’s word in 2006 and, for the past year, had served as pastor at Freedom Free Will Baptist Church, a modest red brick structure on a South Carolina side road running along a railroad track. Now [...]
The Telegraph: Vice President Joe Biden may have managed to cure his own stammer but he still appears to be pathologically incapable of speaking of his own accomplishments without exaggerating. In an address he made today to students at Sichuan University in China today (full text, as emailed out by the White House, here), he [...]
UPDATE, 15:16 PST: Fox News’s Tripoli correspondent is on the air live from Tripoli reporting that Moammar Kaddafi is currently live on Libyan state television, broadcasting from an undisclosed location, and telling the entire country to rise up, run to Tripoli, and liberate it from the rebels….developing Kaddafi on state tv: Report from inside Kaddafi’s [...]
LA Times: One of the Federal Reserve’s primary roles is to be the lender of last resort to banks. It played that role to the tune of stunning $1.2 trillion during the financial-system crisis that began in 2007, according to data compiled for the first time by Bloomberg News. The Bloomberg probe of the Fed’s [...]
Thomas Friedman arrives at White House for dinner with Obama Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Nearly three years into the Obama presidency, is it fair to say the media were duped? On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” host Howard Kurtz asked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman just that question. According to Friedman, the [...]
(AFP)- Russia has put forward “proposals” to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media reported Sunday quoting the Islamic republic’s atomic chief. “We have held negotiations with the Russians regarding the construction of new nuclear power plants. They have put forward some proposals,” Fereydoon Abbasi Davani [...]
New York 1: A spokesman has confirmed that former Governor George Pataki is strongly considering entering the crowded race for the Republican presidential nomination. Sources say Pataki, who left office in 2007, could make an announcement as early as next week. If he were to run, Pataki would face several major obstacles including launching an [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Chengdu, China— Vice President Joe Biden used the keynote address of his four-day visit to China to again make a strong pitch about the health of the U.S. economy, stating that the nation “will never default” and continue to tackle its deficit challenge. Referring to the debt-ceiling accord that averted [...]
BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday his regime was in no danger of collapse and warned against any foreign military intervention in his country as the regime tries to crush a 5-month-old popular uprising. In his fourth public appearance since the revolt against his family’s 40-year rule erupted in mid-March, Assad insisted [...]
These Leftists are Freudian-slipping one of their deepest, secret fears: Rick Perry as the GOP candidate against Obama, because they know Perry is a perfect anti-Obama, and can win.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — As rebels inside Tripoli said they were advancing toward ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s compound Sunday, the defiant leader called on Libyans to stop “colonizers” from taking over the nation’s capital. “I am with you in this fight. We will not give up,” he said in audio remarks broadcast on Libyan state television. [...]
Washington (AP) – Obama tells CBS in an interview broadcast Sunday that he’s “impacted,” just like Congress, when people aren’t happy with Washington. He says he understands that his arguments that the country would have been worse off if he hadn’t taken certain actions don’t resonate with the millions of unemployed people. The president, who’s [...]
Politico: Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s denial of global warming poses a “serious problem” for Republicans trying to take back the White House in 2012, presidential rival Jon Huntsman says. “The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who [...]
