YNet: Ankara’s Star Gazete says country’s new F-16 radar system modified to recategorize Israeli targets as hostile. Order said to come directly from PM Erdogan’s office; naval, submarine radar systems to be changed next. Turkey has developed a new radar system for its US-made F-16 fighter jets that will allow them to fire at Israeli [...]
The Hill: Republicans blasted top Obama administration officials Wednesday for greenlighting a $535 million loan guarantee to a now-bankrupt California solar company, alleging that the White House rushed approval of the taxpayer-backed loan without adequate oversight. The GOP has sought to pummel the White House on the issue in recent weeks, seeing an opening to [...]
Bradley Johnson stands in front of the classroom banners that his school’s principal ordered him to take down. Los Angeles Times: A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the claim of a San Diego-area mathematics teacher that his 1st Amendment rights were violated when the school’s principal ordered him to take down classroom banners that referred [...]
The NYPD is reviewing a new Internet video that appears to show city cops in uniform provocatively grinding scantily clad women at the West Indian Day Parade. A police investigtive unit in Brooklyn has been ordered to look into the video and the cops who are seen dancing on it, sources said.
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Politico: President Obama made a “surprise” appearance at a question-and-answer session at the White House Monday afternoon to promote his jobs package. “I want you guys to pump this up,” Obama told the audience after taking a few questions about the American Jobs Act, which was sent to Congress on Monday. “No, look, we are [...]
Wall Street Journal: A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama’s new jobs plan is hitting some unexpected turbulence in the halls of Congress: lawmakers from his own party. As he demands Congress quickly approve his ambitious proposal aimed at reviving the sagging economy, many Democrats on Capitol Hill appear far from sold that the president has the right antidote to spur [...]
CBSNews: It was a scandalous hate crime caught on camera that grabbed national headlines. Now one of the two young women accused of beating a transgender woman at a McDonalds learns her punishment. Convicted of a hate crime and first degree assault. Five years in prison. Over and over again, two teenage girls attack and [...]
CNN: Columbus, Ohio (CNN) — High school students chanted “pass this bill” to a rousing speech Tuesday by President Barack Obama touting his $447 billion jobs plan, while senior administration officials said the push for Congress to approve the legislation would last months… Senior administration officials said Obama would spend most of the rest of [...]
Hot Air: Bloomberg asks respondents whether they will definitely vote for Obama in 2012, and only 29% of them say yes. Another 21% say they will consider a different candidate, while 43% say they will definitely not vote for Obama. Among Democrats, only 67% don’t want a primary challenge in 2012 against the sitting President, [...]
CNA News: A new report shows that Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers of 9/11, continues to promote a violent form of Islam through its school system and textbooks 10 years after the attacks. “The Saudi government has given over its textbooks to the clerical Wahhabi extremists that it partners with [...]
