PC Mag: If President Obama ousts someone as the mayor of a venue on Foursquare, is he still called the mayor? Just as the president kicks off his tour of the rural Midwest, the White House has checked into Foursquare, creating a profile on the site, the administration announced in a Monday blog post. By [...]
Media Tracker: Kenosha, WI – Sources are reporting that Kenosha Ward 34 experienced some hiccups this morning that slowed down voting and created a wait lasting up to 45 minutes. Apparently, several individuals that were scheduled to work the ward’s poll for today’s recall election in Senate District 22 decided to call the chief election [...]
VOA News: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Libyan rebels are advancing toward Tripoli from the east and west, and there now is a sense that Moammar Gadhafi’s days in power “are numbered.” Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed Libya, Syria and other Middle East issues at a public forum in Washington. The [...]
Fox News: Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: “Well, obviously, it’s putting people to work. Which is why we’re going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we’re going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that’s never happened in [...]
The Hill: Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) personal spokesman denied a report Tuesday that the House Budget Committee chairman was “seriously considering” a run for the Republican presidential nomination. “While grateful for the continued support and encouragement, Congressman Ryan has not changed his mind,” spokesman Kevin Seifert said. The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, citing unnamed [...]
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Fox News: As the nation’s financial system collapsed and millions of Americans struggled to pay off their home mortgages in 2009, a Maryland man now under investigation allegedly wiped away his $353,000 mortgage debt by convincing financial giant CitiGroup to accept a money order purportedly backed by then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. The one-of-a-kind ruse amazingly [...]
The Guardian: When graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, the response proved altogether less edifying. Last weekend, Fairey – creator of the famous “Hope” poster that came to encapsulate [...]
Investor’s Business Daily: If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined. Under President Obama, while the economy is [...]
The Hill: Steep cuts to military or diplomatic budgets could undermine national security, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tuesday in a joint appearance. The two Cabinet members said cuts that could be triggered under the debt-ceiling deal signed by President Obama earlier this month could hurt U.S. troops [...]
The Hill: President Obama’s reelection campaign isn’t running against the specter of former President George W. Bush, said a top voice for the president’s 2012 team. Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary-turned-campaign surrogate, accused the field of Republican presidential candidates of reviving the policies that caused the current economic difficulties. But that doesn’t [...]
Fox News: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is quickly learning what it means to be a presidential candidate, as an off-color comment which attracted instant scrutiny on the campaign trail demonstrates the perils of being in the public eye 24-7. Already on Monday, the same day he filed his candidacy papers, Perry was captured on camera [...]
Rasmussen: Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry [...]
These screenshots were taken from the MSNBC interactive online coverage of the Iowa straw poll on August 13, 2011:
The Scotsman: IRANIAN snipers are being used in Syria to put down the growing tide of demonstrations against president Bashar al-Assad, claims a member of the regime’s secret police who has fled to Turkey. The 25-year-old officer offered a detailed account of increasingly brutal tactics used by security forces to end the five-month uprising, including [...]
CBS Detroit: Detroit police are making some changes regarding burglar alarms in what appears to be an attempt to keep more officers on the streets. A memo, obtained by WWJ Newsradio 950, says the Detroit Police Department has reviewed calls for service and found that false alarms have the greatest financial and staffing impact on [...]
