TARHOUNA, Libya (AP) — Rebel fighters were poised Saturday to assault one of the last strongholds of loyalist fighters in Libya, giving residents of Bani Walid one final night to choose between surrender and an all-out attack. Thousands of fighters were moving toward the town from three sides, according to a senior rebel official from [...]
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A university professor suspected of leading a motorcycle gang and methamphetamine drug ring is wanted for arrest in California, authorities said Thursday. Steve Kinzey, 43, believed to be the president of the local chapter of the Devils Diciples motorcycle club, has been the target of a 6-month narcotics and weapons [...]
OAKLAND, California (AP) — Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says his sagging pants cost him a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight. The singer-guitarist for the San Francisco Bay area band sent a message to his Twitter followers on Thursday expressing his indignation at being tossed from an Oakland-to-Burbank flight for wearing his [...]
Bullet casings found at the scene where Sabar Lal Melma, a former Guantanamo detainee, was killed in a NATO and Afghan forces raid in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. CBC: NATO and Afghan forces have killed a former Guantanamo detainee who returned to Afghanistan to become a key al-Qaeda ally, international officials said [...]
The Atlantic: South Carolina’s own Stephen Colbert isn’t looking too shabby in the polls. Public Policy Polling announced on Tuesday that more independent voters would vote for Colbert than President Obama if the comedian decided to run. With the support of 24 percent of the state’s independent votes, Colbert is beating Obama’s 22 percent but [...]
The Nation: Most Muslim Americans support the proposal to build a mosque and Islamic community centre near Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York, a survey shows. The Pew Research Center survey found 81 percent of US Muslims have heard about the project, which is strongly opposed by American conservatives, and, [...]
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — He may have been 2,000 miles from the border, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s immigration record in Texas quickly became the focus in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon. Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception, the Texas governor was asked whether he supported a fence along the [...]
“If you look at the track record of John Boehner, he really gives one persona, but the track record is much different than the persona.”
Rasmussen: Sarah Palin, it seems, is the only one who know for sure whether she’ll run for president, but she continues to run worse against President Obama than the four top Republican hopefuls already in the race. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Obama earning 47% of the vote [...]
Fox News: In what could be a way of lowering expectations for next Thursday’s big economic speech, aides to President Obama are privately spreading word that he will not present his entire jobs plan in his address to a Joint Session of Congress. Aides say Thursday’s speech will be part of a bigger plan the [...]
Fox News: In August, and for the second month in a row, the Chevy Cruze was the best selling compact car in America, with 21,807 cars sold. The Chevy Volt? Not so much. Only 302 of the plug-in hybrids were delivered to customers, up from 125 in July. So, is the extended range electric car [...]
WSJ: When a hurricane makes landfall, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies on a couple of metrics to assess its destructive power. First, there is the well-known Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. Then there is what he calls the “Waffle House Index.” Green means the restaurant is serving a full menu, a signal that [...]
CNN: Call it location, location, location. The White House announced Friday that Vice President Joe Biden will speak Monday at an AFL-CIO Labor Day event in Cincinnati, Ohio. The news comes a week and a half after the White House announced that President Barack Obama would speak in Michigan at a Labor Day event sponsored [...]
New York Times: MORE than a dozen American states are considering outlawing aspects of Shariah law. Some of these efforts would curtail Muslims from settling disputes over dietary laws and marriage through religious arbitration, while others would go even further in stigmatizing Islamic life: a bill recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly equates Shariah [...]
