National Journal: Rick Perry and Mitt Romney eclipsed the Republican presidential field Wednesday night by brawling over their jobs records and trading practiced barbs in a high-stakes debate that further distanced the two front-runners from the beleaguered pack. But at what price? The testy exchanges allowed Perry to cast himself as a conservative truth-teller and [...]
Fox News: The Texas governor sparred early and often with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whom he has overtaken as front-runner since joining the race a month ago. With Perry trying to defend that position and Romney trying to reclaim it, the two came armed with zingers to take each other down a peg. “Michael [...]
The Hill: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) began sparring over their respective jobs records after no less than 10 minutes into Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate. Both Romney and Perry, the two front-runners for the GOP 2012 nod, were given the first two questions at the NBC News/Politico debate [...]
Politico: Rick Perry is sticking to his guns on Social Security, standing by the inflammatory language in his book declaring the entitlement program a “Ponzi scheme” and a failure. “It is a monstrous lie. It is a Ponzi scheme,” Perry said in the POLITICO/NBC debate. “Anybody that’s for the status quo with Social Security today [...]
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Washington Examiner: A judge has dismissed a case against a former Silver Spring man accused of lying about his military honors, ruling that the law he was charged with violating is unconstitutional. In throwing out the case against Aaron Lawless, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas DiGirolamo is the fourth federal judge to weigh in on the [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama will come to Capitol Hill Thursday with a plan to create jobs. Senate Republicans argued Wednesday his policies have done nothing but destroy them. In a preemptive strike ahead of Obama’s speech, Republicans blamed the president for sitting on three long-stalled free-trade agreements and said the economic crisis and unemployment had [...]
Stripes:com When Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer plunged into Afghanistan’s Ganjgal Valley, he was sure he wouldn’t come out alive, Meyer said in a USA Today article. Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine to receive a Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan, will be honored with the award at a White House ceremony Sept. 15. [...]
(CNSNews.com) – During the month of August, Gallup interviewed 1,183 Hispanics and 48 percent of them said they approved of the job Obama was doing as president. Gallup also interviewed 1,137 blacks during August and 84 percent said they approved of the job Obama was doing. In June 2009, during his first year in office, [...]
The Hill: The White House suggested Wednesday that President Obama will not meet with Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor before he delivers his jobs speech to Congress on Thursday night. White House press secretary Jay Carney said he did not have any meetings to announce when asked if Obama would honor the [...]
Military Times: The Army will be training hundreds of new medics in enhanced skills to treat wounded service members during the flight from the battlefield to field hospital, when the most severely injured have a better chance of surviving with an experienced paramedic aboard. The tentative plan is to train 1,200 critical-care flight paramedics at [...]
Los Angeles Times: A man in a Gumby suit attempted to rob a 7-Eleven store but became nervous and escaped with only some loose change, the San Diego Police Department said. The unusual robbery attempt occured Monday night at a store in the Rancho Penasquitos neighborhood. Initially the clerk thought the man was joking. But [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama is the unlikely star of a new Palestinian media campaign. Part of a speech Obama gave in 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly is featured in an ad aimed to rally support for the Palestinians upcoming bid for statehood at the United Nations on Sept. 20, Reuters reported on Wednesday. [...]
U.S. Army Pfc. Johnny Nguyen and other soldiers patrol Qalat City, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2011. Nguyen, a rifleman assigned to the Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul’s security force, is deployed from the Massachusetts National Guard. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sarah Baker, left, Army Pfc. Johnny Nguyen, [...]
USAToday: A civil suit filed on behalf of a Yale University graduate student slain in September 2009 by a school employee points a finger at the New Haven, Conn., school for allowing a “culture of tolerance” of aggressive male behavior toward women, the New Haven Register is reporting. Annie Le, 24, a student at the [...]
Natural News: Hundreds of firefighters from all the surrounding counties worked two days and nights in a heroic effort to contain the fires, but high winds Sunday night and all day Monday thwarted their efforts. So the call went out for more volunteer firefighters to join the effort from across the state. Before they arrived, [...]
