Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — Food prices could rise next year because an unseasonably hot summer likely damaged much of this year’s corn crop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Monday that a surplus of 672 million bushels of corn will be left over at the end of next summer. The estimated surplus is [...]
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Footage of Afghan and ISAF soldiers inside HQ ISAF, Kabul, fighting back against the attack on the US embassy on 13th September 2011. 1. (00:00) SHOWS AFGHAN SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER OF ISAF HQ, KABUL 2. (00:06) SHOWS ROCKET LANDING OUTSIDE PERIMETER WALL 3. (00:16) SHOWS MACEDONIAN ISAF SOLDIER RUNNING 4. (00:25) SHOWS SMOKE FROM [...]
Business Wire: ST. LOUIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) announced the formation of a new coalition “Energy for Missouri Jobs” that will promote policies that ensure Missouri’s ability to access affordable, reliable power through coal. Energy for Missouri Jobs supports reasonable environmental regulation that continues the pursuit of cleaner air [...]
Human Events: They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes. But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack. Yet a [...]
Newser: A former US Marine was arrested Friday after threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden, authorities say. Justin Alan Woodward was arrested upon his arrival in Hawaii from Thailand, and he admitted to Secret Service agents he had sent messages from Thailand, the AP reports. One expletive-ridden message, sent to the White House website [...]
Sacramento Bee: The Assembly Public Safety Committee approved on party lines today two controversial gun bills that failed last session, including legislation targeting the “Open Carry” protest movement. Assembly Bill 144, by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge, would make it a crime to openly carry an unloaded handgun in public. The bill language contains [...]
(CNSNews.com) – There were only 1.75 full-time private-sector workers in the United States last year for each person receiving benefits from Social Security, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Social Security board of trustees. That means that for each husband and wife who worked full-time in the private sector last [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has confirmed an attack by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and small arms but says no personnel have been reported injured. Embassy spokeswoman Kerri Hannan says staff had been ordered to take cover in hardened structures as gunfire and explosions rocked the area in the heart of [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington— The Pentagon is planning to slash U.S. assistance to Afghanistan’s army and police by more than half over the next three years, settling for a no-frills Afghan security force to battle the Taliban-led insurgency after American forces pull out. Training and equipping Afghans to take over security has been [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — The rising presidential candidacy of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is stirring excitement for many Republican voters but is creating unease in some quarters of the party’s establishment, particularly over his views of Social Security, which are at the root of an intensifying competition with Mitt Romney. The decision on Monday by [...]
Wall Street Journal: It was appropriate that the first Republican presidential debate in which Rick Perry appeared was at Ronald Reagan’s presidential library last week, for it is the Reagan precedent that offers the greatest hope for the Texas governor’s presidential bid. As the candidates gathered Monday night in Florida for a debate staged by [...]
Today Beck premiered his new online show, and it’s much the same as the Fox show, only longer.
CBS: “Mubarak always kept a lid on Egyptian anger because peace with Israel was in his interest.”
(AFP) – President Barack Obama said the “vast majority” of Americans reject the ideas of archconservative Tea Party movement, in an interview broadcast Monday. “We’ve always had a anti-federal government bent in a chunk of our population. That’s nothing new,” Obama told NBC News, referring to the anti-federal nature of the Tea Party, whose fervor [...]
NBC News: TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told NBC News Tuesday that two Americans given eight-year prison sentences for spying and entering the country illegally will be released “in two days.” Ahmadinejad made the remark about Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in a one-on-one interview with Ann Curry that was broadcast on NBC’s TODAY [...]
Jerusalem Post: Former US vice president Dick Cheney believes Israel will launch a military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to prevent the Islamic Republic from creating a nuclear weapon, he said in an interview with US news outlet Newsmax published on Sunday. “I think Iran represents an existential threat, and they’ll do whatever [...]
