Foreign Policy: TRIPOLI, Libya — When the head of Libya’s transitional government, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, took the stage on the night of Monday, Sept. 12, for the first time since Tripoli fell to rebel forces, the crowd in the capital’s central square went nuts. Women and young girls screamed his name. Clutching the podium, Jalil, [...]
The Independent: Not even her position as the world’s most powerful woman has prevented German Chancellor Angela Merkel from becoming the victim of playboy premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sexist language. The gaffe-prone tycoon has been overheard referring to the German leader as an “unf***able fat-a**”, according to wiretaps reported by Italian newspapers. The offensive remark is [...]
The Daily Mail: It’s not the sort of thing most fans want to go through before a football match, but security checks are going to get a whole lot tougher. The NFL wants the 16.6 million fans expected to attend live regular season games this season to go through ‘enhanced’ pat-downs. All 32 clubs have [...]
Netanyahu decides to address the UN General Assembly next Friday, the day the Palestinians will submit their statehood bid. Haaretz: Israel would agree to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status at the United Nations as long as it is not declared a state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in talks with Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s [...]
Boston Herald: A paroled killer’s “Obama” bumper sticker was the break that helped cops nab the man accused of the cold-blooded murder of a Tedeschi’s convenience store clerk, jurors in Edward Corliss’ murder trial learned yesterday. “It struck me as odd,” state parole officer Kevin Devlin testified yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court about the campaign [...]
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National Post: TORONTO — While flipping through his six-year-old son’s new student planner Monday night, Jaak Purres was shocked to see some pretty heavy words jump out at him: sex worker, female genital mutilation, Palestinian solidarity. Most of them were plotted on a calendar marking “Days of Significance” — International Day to End Violence Against [...]
The Hill: Former President Jimmy Carter had some kind words for two Republicans vying to become president —Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann— but he said nobody is likely to beat President Obama in 2012. On former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, the former Democratic president said he would like to see Romney win the Republican presidential nomination. [...]
Politico: Federal prosecutors are asking an appeals court to reconsider a ruling that threw out a California man’s criminal conviction for threatening Barack Obama while he was a candidate for the presidency in October 2008. In July, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled, 2-1, that comments Walter [...]
Egyptian Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf The Telegraph: Dramatically heightening tensions during an increasingly volatile time in Israel’s relations with the Arab world, Essam Sharaf’s suggestions that the 32-year treaty could be revised prompted disbelief in the Jewish state. “The Camp David agreement is not a sacred thing and is always open to discussion with what [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials discussed the political ramifications of a possible default by a troubled solar energy company that received more than $500 million in federal loans. That’s according to newly released emails. The emails show the Obama administration privately worried about the effect of a default by Solyndra Inc. on the president’s [...]
Palestinians lobbying for state recognition of their homeland at the UN carried a symbolic recreation of a seat to the headquarters of the world body in New York. The group from Palestine’s Right is seeking an audience with UN officials ahead of the General Assembly next week, where a delegation is expected officially to apply [...]
“Fast and Furious”, Solyndra, and now this…worse than the Nixon administration… Fox News: Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, told House members in a classified briefing earlier this month that he was pressured to change prepared congressional testimony in a way that would favor a large company funded by Philip Falcone, [...]
CNN: Romney used the interview Thursday to put some distance between himself and Texas Gov. Rick Perry when asked if he would use the word “socialist” to describe the Obama White House. “Well, you know, words have a lot of unintended meanings and calling people socialists probably goes on the fact that it is true [...]
New York Times: In an interview with Time magazine, Gov. Rick Perry showed that he had no intention of softening the cactus-thorned rhetoric he developed during his decades in Texas politics, notably repeating his characterization of President Obama’s policies as “socialist.” “Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington, D.C., one size fits all, whether [...]
