“This sounds Marxist, I don’t want to skip to your left on this but. . . [W]hen I see automation, when I go to a CVS that used to employ a lot of people just above the poverty level, above the minimum wage. And you walk in there now, it’s all machines. Now it’s very [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing [...]
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George Kaiser, a Tulsa billionaire, and a large Obama donor is a primary investor in Solyndra. Kaiser was discovered to have made repeated visits to the White House. He has denied using his influence to win approval for the loan. The Hill: Republicans blasted Obama administration officials Wednesday for green-lighting a $535 million loan guarantee [...]
Washington (AP) – Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Republicans won’t support President Barack Obama’s jobs plan, but he still wants them to vote on the sweeping $450 billion economic recovery effort. Reid said he won’t immediately take up Obama’s plan because the Senate must tackle other issues first. He didn’t specify which bills [...]
A boy looks on as Muslims pray prior to celebrating Eid, which commemorates the end of Ramadan, at Toronto’s Direct Energy Centre Montreal Gazette: A majority of Canadians believes conflict between Western nations and the Muslim world is “irreconcilable,” according to a new national survey that revealed a strong strain of pessimism in the country [...]
Politico: Democrats awoke Wednesday to a disturbing new political reality — a world in which the Jewish vote couldn’t be taken for granted anymore. And in the wake of a New York City special election where a Republican won in the heart of urban Jewish Democratic power, the stunning outcome has set off alarms that [...]
Bloomberg: A majority of Americans don’t believe President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepticism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election. The downbeat assessment of the American Jobs Act reflects a growing and broad sense of dissatisfaction with the president. [...]
The Hill: Democrats went into overdrive Wednesday after the GOP captured a New York House seat the party had held for almost a century, attempting to neutralize the inevitable conclusions drawn about the impact of the loss on Democrats’ 2012 prospects. Democrats expected an easy win early in the campaign and President Obama had won [...]
NYPost: A second man who spent time with this dominatrix has been offed. Leather-loving Edythe Maa, whose lawyer boyfriend was shot and killed three years ago by a crazed client, just found her newest beau dead in the attic. The 29-year-old former-Ph.D.-student-turned- S&M-model, better known as Jade Vixen, made the horrific discovery Aug. 18 in [...]
Washington Post: As the 2012 presidential campaign heats up, President Obama’s campaign team has set up a new Web site, AttackWatch.com, to challenge negative statements about the president made by Republican presidential candidates and conservatives. Obama for America national field director Jeremy Bird told ABC News that the site’s goal is to offer “resources to [...]
U.S. Marine Cpl. Matt Myers from Broomfield, Colo., sits on his cot and looks through a care package after the arrival of mail to his platoon’s outpost in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The Marines living in austere conditions at PB-302 exchange fire regularly with Taliban militants, who attack from multiple directions. Brennan Linsley / AP US [...]
WLSAM: LANSING, Mich. (WLS) – In an attempt to combat Michigan’s childhood obesity epidemic, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state would begin tracking kids’ body mass index through the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. Although the policy would be one of the most extensive government anti-childhood obesity efforts, pediatricians were divided over whether it [...]
The Foundry: President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation. The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite different from the [...]
National Journal: After a fight in Congress over alleged cost overruns and saving jobs from the shuttered space-shuttle program, NASA on Wednesday unveiled its rocket of the future—a giant, modular design that can take large or small payloads, including a new generation of space explorers. Calling it “the most powerful rocket in history,” Sen. Bill [...]
