Jun 24, 2010 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Examiner.com: New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie, has not only become an Internet sensation sweeping the nation due to his major ownership of Liberal reporters, his winning remarks toward a lying school teacher but for his announcement that the "day of reckoning" has come as well. A lot of people in Conservative, Tea Party and libertarian camps ...
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Chicago Sun Times: A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich's plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich's former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor's corruption trial that three days after the ...
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Washington Times: Just months before critical midterm elections, the Republican National Committee is hurting for cash more than at any similar period in memory, according to figures reported this week to the Federal Election Commission. Next month's shortfall is shaping up to be as bad or even worse, a senior official with knowledge of committee's financial status ...
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Politico: The Democratic National Committee plans to port its message to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch beginning Thursday, offering two free new apps that connect voters with the party's candidates and events. The two tools, one of which is powered by Organizing for America, seek to build off the success that President Barack Obama had in ...
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Politico: Sensing victory in November, and eager to cut into the Democrats’ cash edge, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has pledged to give $1 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the next month. Boehner was joined by a number of other Republicans on Wednesday morning in pledging huge transfers of money to the NRCC, ...
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Times Online: Hundreds of courts and police stations will close under government plans to reduce the £20 billion a year criminal justice budget.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)- When he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor's mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented apartment during his first tour in the executive office and lived in a downtown loft in Oakland while he was mayor of the crime-ridden city. The ...
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The Hill: House Republicans who backed the nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the move doesn’t change their opposition to the Democrats’ war and domestic spending bill. House GOP leaders lauded the popular general on Wednesday after President Barack Obama tapped him as the replacement to Gen. Stanley McChrystal ...
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Fox News: A new study by the National Association of Scholars has found that 70 percent of the summer reading books assigned to incoming college freshmen in the U.S. show a liberal bias and are not academically challenging, setting off a storm of debate in educational circles. The report, "Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to ...
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(Reuters) - With the historic overhaul of U.S. financial rules nearly complete, lawmakers have waited until the final, frantic hours to sort out the most controversial provisions in the bill. Democrats in charge of the process appear likely to retain tough restrictions on banks' trading and investment activities that could crimp profits for the foreseeable future. But ...
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NY Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — In late 2008, shortly after he had helped pull Iraq back from the brink of catastrophe, Gen. David H. Petraeus prepared to turn to that other American war. “I’ve always said that Afghanistan would be the tougher fight,†General Petraeus said at the time. Now the burden falls to him, at perhaps the ...
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Times Online: A British-born former lawyer became Australia’s first female Prime Minister early today, ousting Kevin Rudd in a party coup only months before elections are expected to be called. Julia Gillard, 48, became leader of the Australian Labor Party after a night of high drama, with key faction leaders switching their support, as polls indicated that ...
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Fox News: Republican lawmakers are expressing shock over a Labor Department ad campaign that offers government assistance to illegal immigrants who think they're getting shortchanged for their work -- and at least one of them is planning to write to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis for an explanation. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he wants to know why ...
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Next Gov: The federal government delayed by five weeks deploying high-tech sensors that could accurately measure the how much oil was spewing out of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico because officials thought the well would be capped or shut down within a relatively short time span, according to contract documents the U.S. Coast ...
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Wall Street Journal: Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama's leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The survey also shows grave and growing concerns about the Gulf oil spill, with overwhelming majorities ...
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Washington Post: President Obama dismissed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal on Wednesday after concluding that his military chief in Afghanistan had badly damaged the chain of command and could no longer work effectively with the civilian leadership at a crucial moment in the war. White House officials said Obama's decision, made over a tense 40 hours, pitted his ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Wednesday night asked a judge to delay a court ruling that overturned a moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf. In court papers, the Justice Department said that it is seeking the delay while appealing the decision of U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman. The Justice Department says a delay would ...
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Oregon Live: The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office confirmed today that a woman who alleged unwanted sexual contact by Al Gore reported it to police in 2006, and the prosecutor’s office was briefed by the Portland Police Bureau in late 2006 and January 2007. “We were told the woman was not willing to be interviewed by ...
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Fag, hag Rod Blagojevich is not exactly emerging as a shining example of enlightened feminist-friendly rhetoric in the undercover recordings being played at his trial this afternoon. An example is a conversation he held with chief of staff John Harris on Nov. 7, 2008, in which the two were still discussing Blagojevich’s plans to swap a ...
Continue ReadingJun 23, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
The Telegraph: Some Government departments could see their budgets slashed by up to a third as the Coalition moves to repair the £85bn black hole in the public finances, the leading non-partisan think tank said. Whitehall faces an unprecedented six years of spending cuts, the IFS said in its post-Budget analysis. Previously, the most it had faced ...
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