CNBC: The Tea Party had a significant impact on putting “some spine” into the backs of Congressional Republicans during the debt ceiling debate, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Larry Kudlow Wednesday. The threat to not raise the debt ceiling was controversial, he said, but it was effectively used to force the Obama administration to [...]
Fox News: Just hours after the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, federal officials tried to cover up evidence that the gun that killed Terry was one the government intentionally helped sell to the Mexican cartels in a weapons trafficking program known as Operation Fast and Furious. The revelation comes just days after a [...]
CNBC: The US economy created no jobs and the unemployment rate held steadily higher at 9.1 percent in August, fueling concerns that the US is heading for another recession. It was the first time since World War II that the economy had precisely net zero jobs created for a month. Economists had been expecting the [...]
Excerpts from Ulsterman’s interview with “White House Insider” – more to come. Warning: Adult Content NewsFlavor: Ulsterman: It’s been a while hasn’t it? Face to face that is. Insider: Yes it has. Been busy. Tired. Loving it though. I really do love this. All of this. Gonna miss it. And we have made so much [...]
Washington Post: Now here’s a scoop: The New York Post is reporting that Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is seen by Republican donors as Jewish—a perception that is causing fundraising problems for top-tier opponent Mitt Romney. To hear the New York Post tell it: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing a new challenge: He’s [...]
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, aka Abu Abdullah Assadaq, aka Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi is the rebels’ military commander now in charge in Tripoli. He is an al-Qaeda operative who was captured and held for a time at Guantanamo Bay.
Jobless Recovery. I wonder how many of those 2008 Hopey-Changey voters now have buyer’s remorse? Business Week: Hiring probably slowed in August as American companies became less optimistic about the strength of the recovery, economists said before a report today. Payrolls climbed by 68,000 workers after a 117,000 increase in July, according to the median [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died, according to an Associated Press tally. Figures compiled by the AP show that no American forces died in Iraq in August either in combat or non-combat related situations, a significant achievement in a conflict [...]
Eater.com: Last year, Denny’s was upbraided for introducing a sandwich, the Fried Cheese Melt, with altogether too much cheese and too many calories. But this week made it clear that the Fried Cheese Melt was a small taste of things to come. Denny’s is stepping up the novelty sandwich game: first of all, the above [...]
The Consumerist: As a scientist at Fermilab, Dr. Jason Steffen normally thinks about smashing particles together at great speeds. Great energy and speed are not usually associated with the airline boarding process, so it might seem odd that an insight into making how we get on planes would occur to someone who works next to [...]
USA Today: PALM BAY, Fla. – A video shows a father umpiring a scuffle between his son and another teenager, then repeatedly beating the teen after his son quits the fight, police investigators say. Gary Leroy Johnson, 35, has been charged with felony counts of aggravated battery and child abuse, as well as misdemeanor counts [...]
SB Nation: President Barack Obama will honor NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other Chase drivers from last year in a White House ceremony on Wednesday – but nearly half of the 2010 playoff contenders won’t be there. NASCAR said Thursday that five drivers – Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and [...]
The Hill: The House as early as next week could take up legislation requiring the Obama administration to submit detailed information on the operation that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden. The Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892, argues that the government must compile information about the bin Laden operation to “memorialize” it, given [...]
CBS News: Taking heat from Muslim groups upset with a coloring book about the 9/11 Attacks, a publisher says he’s been in contact with local police and the FBI. Wayne Bell, the Publisher of Really Big Coloring Books, Inc., says there’s been a negative backlash against the book “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ [...]
