Archive for October, 2011
Harry Reid Rejects Obama’s Plan To Pay For Jobs Bill (2)
The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) on Tuesday further distanced his Democratic Conference from President Obama by nixing a major component of the White House’s jobs plan. Reid said he would revise parts of the proposal that some Senate Democrats have found unpalatable. Reid told his Democratic colleagues Tuesday that he would put [...]
Obama: Reagan Would Have Supported “Buffett Rule” (2)
President Obama: Ronald Reagan Would Want ‘Buffett Rule’ from Colin Sumner on Vimeo.
Hacker Group Anonymous Threatens Crippling Attack On New York Stock Exchange As Part Of “Occupy Wall Street” (1)
Fox News: The FBI is investigating threats purportedly from the hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous to bring down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday by hacking into its computer system. Members of the notorious hacker group appear to be threatening to bring the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to a dangerous [...]
Germany Reopens Hundreds Of Nazi Death Camp Investigations: ‘Track Down The Remaining Nazi War Criminals’ (4)
ABCNews: Prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, The Associated Press has learned. Given the advanced age of all of the suspects — the youngest are in their [...]
Breaking: Dilawar, Taliban-Haqqani Organizer in Afghanistan Linked To Al Queda, Killed By Airstrike In Pakistan (0)
EuroNews: NATO-led forces fighting in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that an airstrike had killed a senior commander of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network and two of his associates in eastern Khost province, near the Pakistan border. Dilawar, who was only known by one name, was a “principal subordinate” to Haji Mali Khan, who NATO captured last [...]
Mexico Marines Capture Escaped Inmates “Sprung” By Cartel As New Recruits (0)
MercuryNews: Mexico’s navy announced Tuesday that marines found nine escaped inmates apparently working for the Zetas drug cartel at a camp believed to be operated by the group near the Gulf port city of Veracruz. Navy officials said the fugitives had apparently been sprung from prison to work for the Zetas. The detentions resulted from [...]
In CBS Poll, Cain Catches Up With Romney: Romney 17%, Cain 17%, Perry 12% (6)
CBS News: Herman Cain has moved into a tie with Mitt Romney atop the field of Republican presidential candidates, according to a new CBS News poll, while Rick Perry has fallen 11 percentage points in just two weeks. The poll shows Cain, who stood at just five percent support two weeks ago, now holding 17 [...]
O’Reilly Confronts Libertarian Stossel Over Ron Paul’s Bullsh*t (5)
Stossel here says “Ron Paul IS the Libertarian movement”. If so, why doesn’t Paul have the courage of his convictions and stay the F out of the GOP?
Samuel L. Jackson Says Tea Party Racism Is “Obvious” (18)
New York Magazine: While we were on the subject, we asked Jackson if he agreed with fellow thespian Morgan Freeman, who caused something of a ruckus recently after he claimed that the tea party is racist. “It’s pretty obvious what they are,” Jackson told us. “The division of the country is not about the government [...]
Breast Cancer Patient Gets A TSA Pat-Down, TSA Gets A Smackdown (1)
Los Angeles Times: AnotherTransportation Security Administration pat-down gone wrong is in the news again. This time the unfortunate pat-downee is Lori Dorn, a New York-based human resources professional who underwent a bilateralmastectomy in April and was traveling throughJohn F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. You can already see where this one is going. According [...]
