Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington— As he confronts the threat of another recession and turmoil in the financial markets, President Obama is being advised by an economic team that is noticeably short on big-name players — hurting his ability to find solutions. “When you ask about the economic team, it’s kind of like, ‘What [...]
Houston Chronicle: McALLEN, Texas — As drug violence rises, Mexicans with means accustomed to making weekend jaunts to Texas are increasingly taking to the skies to bypass one of their country’s deadliest states. Less than two years ago, trips from the industrial hub of Monterrey to visit family or shop here were so common that [...]
Ames, Iowa (AP) – A test vote under way, Republicans running for the White House wooed Iowans Saturday by assailing President Obama and offering themselves as the answer to an America plagued by high unemployment, rising debt and stock market swings. “We know what America needs. But unfortunately Barack Obama has no clue. He’s like [...]
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Wired: British Prime Minister David Cameron has told Parliament that he is investigating whether to stop people communicating via social networking sites if they are known to be planning criminal activity. He said to the House of Commons Thursday: “Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for [...]
A soldier of the Mexican Army walks along a trans-border tunnel found near Tijuana Airport, in Tijuana, in the Mexican border with San Diego in the US, on August 11. Fox News: Mexican troops have discovered an unfinished 980-foot tunnel beneath the U.S. border that that officials say would likely have been used to smuggle [...]
The Telegraph: The New York Times, citing classified intelligence documents and unnamed officials, reports that terrorist operatives have been making efforts to buy large quantities of castor beans – which contain the toxic ricin protein – and shift them to a remote tribal area controlled by insurgents for processing. Ricin is so poisonous that inhalation [...]
…of course, everyone knows “Palestinians” are as imaginary as leprechauns and unicorns. Jerusalem Post: September 20 marked for Palestinian UN statehood bid, AFP reports; PA foreign minister says Abbas “will insist on this historic initiative and Ban Ki-moon will present the request to the Security Council.” NEW YORK – The Palestinians set September 20th as [...]
The Hill: Members of the new powerful “supercommittee” are scheduled to attend a slew of campaign fundraisers this fall when they return to Capitol Hill. The senators and House members on the panel that has been tasked to come up with an at least $1.5 trillion deficit reduction package by Thanksgiving were selected for their [...]
Associated Press: Down wind-swept El Camino Real, where women in shawls push strollers and old men in cowboy hats linger on dusty benches, farmworkers spill from white contractor buses. From the main drag, it’s only blocks to the fields and vineyards that sustain this peaceful town in the Salinas Valley, “the Salad Bowl of the [...]
From Breitbart.tv: Ann Althouse: In the middle of the screen, at 3:38, in the red “fist” T-shirt and holding a heart-shaped balloon, is the man who pointed me out in the rotunda yesterday and who (apparently) participated in the comments yesterday under the pseudonym “Dirty Hippie.” He talks to the attacker just before the attacker [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama has forcefully rejected calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over a controversial federal law enforcement operation that allegedly allowed hundreds of guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) and the National Rifle Association have called for Holder’s resignation over “Operation Fast and Furious,” the Bureau [...]
KARANGANYAR, Indonesia, Aug. 12 (UPI) — A former cannibal in Indonesia who is currently living at a mental institution said he is on the lookout for potential wives. Sumanto, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2003 after stealing a woman’s corpse and eating it in a bid to obtain supernatural powers and for [...]
UPDATE: The U.S. Embassy has identified the kidnap victim as contractor Warren Weinstein. Developing… LA Times: Gunmen kidnapped an American from his house in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, carrying out an attack that underscores the risk that U.S. citizens and other foreigners face in a country that has been grappling with Islamic [...]
