Los Angeles Times: The Rose Parade has long been a magnet for protesters looking for global attention for their causes and grievances. Native Americans once threw a balloon filled with red paint onto the parade route to represent the spilling of Indian blood. AIDS activists interrupted the parade by staging a sit-in. One year, a [...]
(POLITICO) — Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has sent a personal note of apology Thursday to First Lady Michelle Obama for referring to her “large posterior” and “big butt,” his spokesperson told POLITICO. . . . On Thursday, Sensenbrenner said in a statement, “I regret my inappropriate comment and I have sent a personal note to the [...]
Los Angeles Times: President Obama doesn’t have to go to court to answer a group of Southern Californians’ claims that he isn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen and should be ousted from office, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The so-called birthers immediately vowed to appeal and blamed their repeated failures to get judicial attention to [...]
(Fox News) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked three key provisions of South Carolina’s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted the federal government’s request for an injunction against the law that’s set to take effect Jan. 1. The ruling applies to portions that require law officers to [...]
White House Dossier: Bo Obama was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President Obama’s side Wednesday shopping for treats at Pet Smart According to Michelle Obama’s press office, the first dog was planning to go to Hawaii with the first lady and the Obama daughters. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that he [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – Expect to pay more in the future to fly to London or Paris. Europe’s highest court ruled Wednesday that U.S. airlines must comply with a European Union carbon emission trading scheme, triggering protests from the Obama administration, the aviation industry and free market groups – and raising fears of a costly [...]
Jerusalem Post: Officials say Israel working to improve ties with Turkey but can’t permit delivery of advanced intelligence-gathering systems; decision nixes $140m. deal; Elbit, IAI may face Turkish lawsuit for reneging. The diplomatic crisis with Turkey intensified on Thursday after the Defense Ministry decided not to renew an export license for Elbit Systems and Israel [...]
The Daily Caller: New independent circulation numbers show a sharp decline in readership of Politico and other left-leaning news websites, an ominous trend for the suburban Virginia-based news outlet and its peers as Americans head into an election year. Recently published and publicly available Web traffic data indicates that “unique visitor” traffic to politico.com in [...]
The Sideshow: Residents of Cowley County, Kansas caused a sensation last week when they captured video of the military towing a concealed object on a flatbed truck down US Highway 77. It wasn’t long before a wave of speculation hit, claiming the object was a UFO. Depending on the angle from which you spotted it, [...]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch prosecutors are not investigating a case of apparent cannibalism on a Dutch TV show in which presenters appeared to consume tiny pieces of each others’ flesh that had been surgically removed. Amsterdam prosecution spokeswoman Yvonne van der Leede said Thursday no investigation is under way. Thijs Verheij, spokesman for broadcaster BNN, [...]
The Daily Caller: Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., said that Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent attacks on his colleague, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., were an attempt to take public attention off of Operation Fast and Furious. “The fact [that the Department of Justice] chose today to release their findings was [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The White House says it’s been flooded with responses to the question it posed Wednesday: “What does $40 mean to you?” One day after the White House asked “working” people to “tell us what your family will give up if your (payroll) taxes increase,” the stories are rolling in, including one [...]
Los Angeles Times: The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish annual rate of 1.8% from July through September, down from earlier estimates, the government said Thursday. The new data threw some cold water on hopes that the economic recovery had picked up significant steam in the second half of the year. The initial estimate of [...]
KABUL (AP) – An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the airstrikes on two Pakistani outposts, the U.S. Department of Defense and a NATO official said on Thursday. “The report says we recognize [...]
“The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels and Attorney General Eric Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan…DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing it’s efforts by adding 37 new employees in 3 new offices using $10 [...]
