Fox News:
The community organizing group ACORN mismanaged about $200,000 received from the Justice Department, which failed to track how the allocated money was used, according to a report by the department’s watchdog.
The news is the latest blow to a group whose public image has taken a beating in recent months after some of its employees [...]
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Times Online:
The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’ latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery with which he associates religious baggage.
With the slogan “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, the two children, their hair flying and with broad grins, seem to be [...]
Real Clear Politics:
Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “After eight years of delay,” he intoned, “those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally [...]
Bloomberg:
Nov. 20 — Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers.
An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000,” could fund more troops, Levin, [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama’s signature issue.
One of three uncommitted centrists, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, announced he’d vote with his party’s leaders [...]
National Review Online:
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just [...]
The only time I’ll ever post something from HuffPo:
Levi Johnston flew first class to LA for the party and calls himself “Ricky Hollywood,” but he was barely noticed by the dozens of actual Hollywood celebrities inside GQ’s “Men of the Year” party at Chateau Marmont Wednesday night.
Levi, who had on a vest, yellow pocket square [...]
MSNBC:
A recently released music video for “Popular Demand” by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video airing on MTV and elsewhere, it looks like the TV channel completely erased the restaurant’s name from the awning in the video’s opening shot.
Brokelyn, [...]
ABC:
Oprah’ Winfrey’s impending announcement that she will end her wildly successful daytime talk show in 2011 is more than just a good-bye, it’s the end of an era.
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“She has been one of the family for Americans for 25 years,” Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast told “Good Morning America” today. “The audience [...]
The Hill:
Rev. Jesse Jackson backed off his criticism of Rep. Artur Davis Thursday night, issuing a statement saying he has “abiding admiration” of the Alabama Democrat.
“I talked to Congressman Artur Davis today to assure him of my abiding admiration of him as a leader who is engaged in a huge challenge,” Jackson said in the [...]
NewsBusters:
The Wall Street Journal’s intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s National Broadband Plan.
With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. The groundwork for government information totalitarianism - [...]
ABC News:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, [...]
House Republican Leader:
House Republicans today launched a new effort to change the way Congress works, calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to schedule an immediate vote on five common-sense reforms that will bring greater transparency to the legislative process and make Congress more open and accountable to the people it serves. The House GOP [...]
Gouverneur Times:
GOUVERNEUR, NY - The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.
Cathleen Rogers, the Democratic Elections Commissioner in [...]
Washington Post:
Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu.
One is the leader of a great democracy. The other is the head of a repressive regime. But as the two men faced reporters in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Obama deferred to the wishes of [...]
CNS News:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) declined to say Thursday whether Osama bin Laden, when captured by the United States, should be told he has the right to remain silent and be given a lawyer. Pelosi indicated that is not a question Americans should worry about now.
CNSNews.com asked Pelosi at her regular press briefing on [...]
