The Williams River flooded Route 103 in Rockingham, Vermont, closing the road. This horseback rider rode through the flood water to deliver a bag of medicine, and then went back across. Sometimes old fashion is the answer!
Forbes: There will be no significant recovery in the United States of America while Barack Obama is President. The evidence is overwhelming: everything Obama has tried to fuel a recovery (with his Democratic allies in Congress) has failed. Statistics claiming jobs saved by the stimulus package were mostly fiction, and cost American taxpayers about $275,000 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday dismissed as “cheap shots” the criticism leveled at him and others in Vice President Dick Cheney’s memoir. It was the latest volley in a clash that stretches back to their first years in the George W. Bush administration. Powell went so far as to [...]
Politico’s top story today, headlined “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Another Texas governor who drops his “g’s” and scorns elites is running for president and the whispers are the same: lightweight, incurious, instinctual., Strip away the euphemisms and Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question: Is he dumb — or just “misunderestimated?” He likely won’t make [...]
The Hill: President Obama is nominating Alan Krueger, an economics professor at Princeton University, to head his White House economics team. The president announced Monday that he plans to tap the labor economist as chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). In a statement, he touted Krueger’s qualifications, calling him “a key [...]
Politico: House Republicans have laid out their fall jobs agenda, and it mostly revolves around killing environmental and labor regulations while pushing tax cuts for businesses. For good measure, they’re also planning another round of attacks on the health care reform law. In a memo sent to his colleagues Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [...]
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Alabama’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration, ruling Monday that she needed more time to decide whether the law opposed by the Obama administration, church leaders and immigrant-rights groups is constitutional. The brief order by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn means the law [...]
CNN: Washington (CNN) – A new national survey is further proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s entrance earlier this month into the race for the White House has dramatically altered the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. According to a CNN/ORC International Poll of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP, Perry now [...]
U.S. Army soldiers sleep while on an early morning C-130 transport flight on August 26, 2011 to Jalalabad, Afghanistan A U.S. Army F-15 jet fighter fires a flare after bombing Taliban insurgent positions in eastern Afghanistan Naray district, Kunar province near border of Pakistan U.S. Army Lieutenant Edward Bachar of Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th [...]
Army Times: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry discussed foreign policy Monday, telling the nation’s oldest major veterans organization that U.S. forces must be led by American commanders rather than “multilateral debating societies.” Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ annual convention in San Antonio, the Texas governor urged the United States to renew its commitment “to [...]
Personally I hope the bastard suffers on his trip to hell… Fox News: Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges, a prison official said Monday. The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is [...]
Flight medic Cpl. Amanda Mosher, of the 563rd Aviation Support Battalion, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, pauses after a mission on June 15, 2011, at Forward Operation Base Pasab in Afghanistan. Stripes.com: FORWARD OPERATING BASE PASAB, Afghanistan —The flight rookie kneeled across from her mentor and waited. She knew nothing of the blast [...]
