CNNMoney: Hey Snooki, you’re not welcome on the Jersey Shore. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie cut $420,000 in tax credits Monday that would have gone to 495 Productions, the company responsible for bringing the escapades of “Pauly D” and “The Situation” to the masses via MTV. Christie has two concerns: He doesn’t care for the [...]
LA Times: Just two weeks ago, former New York Mayor Ed Koch was telling city voters to elect a Republican to Congress, to “send a huge message to President Obama that we’re not happy with how he’s dealing with Israel.” Now, one speech to the United Nations and a one-on-one chat later, Koch is an [...]
Reuters: A Michigan man has been ordered held without bond after federal agents recovered more than 4,100 pounds of explosives, 2,000 feet of detonating cord and dozens of blasting caps at three Upper Peninsula locations. A U.S. magistrate judge in Marquette, Michigan, ordered John Francis Lechner, 64, held without bond on Monday for possession of [...]
Daily Caller: As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years. “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to [...]
CNSNews.com An Iranian pastor who refuses to renounce his Christian faith could be hanged as soon as Wednesday, after a trial court ruling this week upheld his death sentence for “apostasy.” Religious freedom advocates are calling urgently for governments to take up the case of Youcef Nadarkhani, a 32-year-old evangelical first sentenced to death late [...]
Reuters Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin threatened on Monday to sue the author and publisher of an unflattering biography she said was filled with “lies and rumors presented as fact.” The book by veteran political writer Joe McGinniss, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” was published last week as speculation mounted about whether [...]
A soldier from The U.S. Army’s 2/327th No Slack Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), relieved after a fire fight with the Taliban opens his mouth up towards the sky to taste the snow as it falls in the valley of Barawala Kalet, Kunar province, Afghanistan An explosive ordnance disposal team member evaluates explosive remnants [...]
Business Insider: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told NBC News’ David Gregory that he is troubled by President Barack Obama’s rhetoric on the so-called ‘Buffet Rule.’ On Meet the Press, Bloomberg criticized Obama for theatrics, pushing a tax law that would by the administration’s own admission, impact just a few Americans. “You can’t define [...]
Reuters: TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States’ Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries. “Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer: ABOUT 11 P.M. on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Playground a couple of hours earlier. Two fearful white teens spotted Mark LaVelle on Indiana Avenue near Belgrade [...]
The Telegraph: This is the text of Palestinian letter of application to join the United Nations handed over to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, as released by the United Nations: “Excellency, I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission [...]
Forbes: For more than 160 years, the American Medical Association has served as the self-appointed chief lobbying group for doctors. But the AMA’s lofty status has been under threat over the last several years — and is under attack today. In fact, the AMA now only counts about 17% of doctors as members. According to [...]
Detroit News: For the only Detroit automaker that “didn’t take the money” of the federal auto bailouts, Ford Motor Co. keeps paying a price for its comparative success and self-reliant turnaround. There’s no help from American taxpayers to help lighten its debt load, giving crosstown rivals comparatively better credit ratings and a financial edge Ford [...]
Washington Times: President Obama still is pressing Congress to pass his jobs stimulus bill immediately, but his own party leaders in the Senate, where Democrats have a majority, have pushed that vote off yet again. Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said Monday night that when the Senate returns from a weeklong vacation, the chamber [...]
ABC: U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner. But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone [...]
