Obama tees off while playing golf on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., Aug 20 (Reuters) – A vacationing U.S. President Barack Obama accused Congress on Saturday of holding back the U.S. economic recovery by blocking “common sense” measures he said would create jobs and help growth. In remarks [...]
Charles Ogletree was a black panther. He is also the lawyer of Henry Louis Gates, the racist Harvard professor who’s racism caused the beer summit. Ogletree’s daughter Rashida was recently hired into Holder’s Justice Department as a lawyer. Ogletree is still a militant leftist and is still called on by the Obamas for advice. OAK [...]
Jerusalem (CNN) — In a move that could portend an increase in violence between Israelis and Palestinians, Hamas announced it was ending a de facto two-year truce with Israel early Saturday. A statement from the Izzedine al Qassam brigades was broadcast on a Hamas-run radio station, announcing: “There is no truce with the Israeli occupation [...]
Washington Times: GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann on Friday stood by her promise to bring gas prices down to around $2 a gallon if elected. “The price of gasoline the day that Barack Obama took office was $1.79 a gallon. If the price of gasoline was $1.79 a gallon just two and three years [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida in Iraq has vowed to carry out “100 attacks” across the country, starting in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to exact revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden. The terror group’s statement was released on militant websites late Friday. It said the attacks will avenge bin [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina cannot withhold funding from Planned Parenthood until a lawsuit over that provision of the state budget has been resolved, a federal judge ruled late Friday. The ruling by Judge James Beaty Jr. gives at least a temporary reprieve to Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina while they seek to [...]
Reuters: NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy. The lawsuit, filed on June 29 by [...]
Fox News: South Carolina health officials announced Friday that they will cover a local construction worker’s breast cancer treatment under Medicaid even though federal guidelines exclude him because he is a man. The decision effectively dares the federal Medicaid office to reject the claims for his treatment, and it sets up a potential showdown between [...]
Associated Press: PHOENIX (AP) – Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants. The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently [...]
More adventures with barely English-speaking Al Sharpton…
