Perhaps you’ll remember that the Brady Campaign played a roll in Fast & Furious, as well AZCentral: TUCSON — The former aide who rushed to help U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot last January is supporting the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Daniel Hernandez appears in one of the group’s posters and [...]
USAToday: Activists upset at police efforts to spy on Muslims plan to skip Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying Bloomberg shouldn’t be defending the tactics. The imams and activists, supported by religious leaders from a variety of faiths, said in a letter to Bloomberg that they’re disturbed at his response to a series [...]
GossipCop: Just days before the critical Iowa caucus, Ron Paul has secured a major endorsement – from Kelly Clarkson. The “American Idol” winner expressed her support for the Republican presidential candidate on Twitter. “I love Ron Paul,” Clarkson wrote on Thursday. “I liked him a lot during the last republican nomination and no one gave [...]
CNS: Afghanistan’s government signed a deal Wednesday with China’s state-owned National Petroleum Corporation, allowing it to become the first foreign company to exploit the country’s oil and natural gas reserves. The contract, which covers the northeastern provinces of Sari Pul and Faryab, is the first of several such blocks to be put on the market [...]
Rasmussen: Mitt Romney has now jumped to his biggest lead ever over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup.
Reuters: U.N. offices around the world lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday in a move the world body said was routine but which prompted objections from some human rights activists. In New York, where the flag outside U.N. headquarters was lowered, spokesman Eduardo del [...]
Foreign Policy: “I am going to Homs,” insisted Sudanese Gen. Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, the head of the Arab League observer mission, telling reporters that so far the Assad regime had been “very cooperative.” But Dabi may be the unlikeliest leader of a humanitarian mission the world has ever seen. He is a staunch loyalist [...]
Business Insider: by Robert Reich My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President. So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton. Why do I say this? Because [...]
And by “Unexpectedly,” everyone knows that it is because the holiday season is over, and we are back to the status quo… CNBC: New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, but the underlying trend continued to point to improving labor market conditions. Initial claims [...]
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