“Guess what I been doin’ with this hand here?” Assist News: Authorities say Iranian internet users chalked up more visits to pornographic sites than people from any other country on Ashura Day, a Shiite day of mourning. Mohabat News, the Iranian Christian News Agency, citing a Radio Zamaneh report from the Fars news agency, reports [...]
American Thinker: The left are now wringing their hands fearing their agenda is overripe, blaming everyone else for their own spoiled pickling. While Obama’s sinking prospects for re-election are disquieting, the real source of liberals’ despair is their sudden, unexpected realization that the progressive agenda is dead in its tracks and will likely be in [...]
Politico: A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African Americans hanging from trees and accuses the movement of wishing for a return to the Jim Crow era. Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana who serves as the CBC’s chief vote counter, said at [...]
The Daily Caller: As government cuts loom, one segment of the population could be especially hard hit — the black community — not just because any particular social program is in jeopardy, but because that community makes up a sizable chunk of federal employees. On Tuesday’s Laura Ingraham radio show, MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan elaborated on [...]
Obama’s uncle, Obama Onyango, is the brother of Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who successfully fought her deportation last year in spite of being in the U.S. for many years illegally. It helps to have friends in high places. Boston Herald: President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a [...]
Libyan rebels discovered weapons hidden under a building in Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli on Tuesday. New York Times: TRIPOLI, Libya — Fighters from the western mountain city of Zintan control the airport. The fighters from Misurata guard the central bank, the port and the prime minister’s office, where their graffiti has relabeled the [...]
Los Angeles Times: President Obama plans to unveil his new job-creation plan in a speech to a joint session of Congress on the evening of Sept. 7, the White House announced Wednesday. In a tweet, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer first revealed that Obama had requested the rare speech to a joint session “to [...]
Politico: White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday brushed off griping from prominent black leaders that President Barack Obama is taking African-Americans for granted while focusing on reaching out to white independent voters. Responding to a question about a POLITICO story in which members of the Congressional Black Caucus took shots at Obama, Carney framed [...]
Lohud.com: RYE — A melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides. Police from at least nine agencies converged on the park beginning at 3 p.m. after [...]
CNN: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will celebrate Labor Day in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire. The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee will attend a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester on Monday, the same day former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was due to attend the event. Romney cancelled his scheduled appearance Tuesday, [...]
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Politico: In his two weeks as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry has done something that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could do: wake up the left. Perry panic has spread from the conference rooms of Washington, D.C., to the coffee shops of Brooklyn, with the realization that the conservative Texan could conceivably become the [...]
The Hill: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Tuesday that it is the administration’s jobs policies, and not Rick Perry, that’s dumb. Perry, the current leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, decried the academics and intellectuals surrounding President Obama, saying the president would be better served by advisers with real-world experience and [...]
ABC News: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s memoir, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” is out Tuesday, and it’s full of criticism and attacks on his Bush administration colleagues — from describing Condoleezza Rice as “tearfully admitting” he was right on the war in Iraq to revealing private conversations with George W. Bush [...]
Politico: House Republicans are planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that will force major changes at the United Nations, an organization that the bill’s author has called a “stew of corruption, mismanagement and negligence.” The bill, by Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, would require the UN adopt a voluntary budget model, in which [...]
Breitbart.tv: Using his now familiar bumbling, bewildering and bombastic delivery, Al Sharpton premiered his brand new show on MSNBC, “Politics Nation” with an attack on the GOP presidential candidates saying they want to bring the country back to pre-1960′s segregationist times. He also promised that this was what his show was going to be about. [...]
