Maureen Dowd in a special editorial today in the New York Times: The leader who was once a luminescent, inspirational force is now just a guy in a really bad spot. His Republican rivals for 2012 have gone to town on the Labor Day weekend news of zero job growth, using the same line of [...]
WASHINGTON – President Obama is celebrating Labor Day in Detroit, previewing his ideas for job creation and economic growth at a rally with thousands of supportive labor union members. Obama’s speech at an annual event sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO was serving as a dress rehearsal for the jobs address he’ll deliver to a [...]
Austin (AP) – Wildfires fueled in part by high winds from former Tropical Storm Lee have burned thousands of acres across Texas, causing widespread damage and forcing hundreds to evacuate. A fire near the East texas community of Gladewater killed 20-year-old mother and her daughter when it engulfed the family’s trailer home before they could [...]
Politico: CONCORD, N.H. – If Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney came in search of elusive Tea Party mojo, he didn’t find it here at a small Tea Party Express rally, where a few dozen conservatives sat in lawn chairs and argued about Romney’s conservative bona fides. Romney made no attempt to out-Tea Party his conservative rival [...]
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Now this is Über Beer Ball! DailyMailUK: It sounds more like a pub marathon than a pub crawl. Last night at just after midnight thirteen New York drinkers toasted victory as they set a new record for the ‘most pubs visited in 24 hours by a team’. The One & One bar on First Avenue [...]
GeekOSystem: Original Tweet: @poultrykeeper poultrykeeper.com A bet with my Boss. He says Twitter is a waste of time. He will give 50p per RT I get but I give him £10 if I don’t get 10… It seems like a pretty simple bet, right? That is, until Twitter goes all Twitter on the thing and [...]
Ortis Deley, a British television personality, has been fired from his job as main presenter of Channel 4’s coverage of the IAAF World Championship in Athletics. Deley is not normally a sports presenter; for the past two years he has hosted The Gadget Show on Britain’s Channel 5 network.
Washington Times: Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” [...]
The Hill: White House press secretary Jay Carney said President Obama was “putting the finishing touches” on his jobs speech to Congress. “The president has spent certainly a part of the weekend putting the finishing touches on his proposals and the speech,” said Carney speaking to reporters accompanying the president to New Jersey to tour [...]
