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Jerusalem Post: The US sent Israel a secret letter, in which it committed to nuclear cooperation between the two states, Army Radio reported on Wednesday. In the letter, the US reportedly promises to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel did not sign the ...
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Washington Times: Holy wars are breaking out all over New York. Three separate plans to build Muslim worship centers in New York City have proved more difficult and contentious than expected, igniting protests by local residents and anti-jihad activists and prompting charges of "Islamophobia" and bigotry. The three projects raise different sets of issues, are set in three ...
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The Hill: Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and John Cornyn (Texas) have sided with the state of Arizona in its battle with the Department of Justice over a controversial state immigration law. Graham’s declaration of opposition to the Justice Department law suit comes as a surprise because Graham called the Arizona law unconstitutional in April. Graham and Cornyn ...
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From Jake Tapper's Political Punch: UPDATE: Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., called the recess appointment "an insult to the American people. Dr. Berwick is a self-professed supporter of rationing health care and he won't even have to explain his views to the American people in a Congressional hearing. Once again, President Obama has made a mockery of ...
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The Hill: Echoing Republicans, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration for sidestepping Congress to install Donald Berwick atop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). "Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power and protects Montanans ...
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Jerusalem Post: After a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday, US Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham held a press conference where they spoke about several pressing foreign policy issues in the region. Senator Lieberman used some very harsh language at the Wednesday press conference to ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid. The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. ...
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Washington Post: The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates' unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received ...
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New York Times: With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay and the Gulf of ...
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Wall Street Journal: MOSCOW—Representatives of a Russian academic convicted in 2004 of spying for the U.S. said he has agreed to be part of a deal to exchange prisoners held in Russia for the suspected spies for Russia arrested last month by U.S. authorities. The academic, Igor Sutyagin, told his mother of the deal early Wednesday after ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks the president's speech did more harm than good. Arpaio says if Obama offers amnesty to millions of illegal people in this country, it will only invite others to cross the border. "Right now because of that speech were going to get more and more people crossing that ...
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Politico: The Obama administration's lawsuit over the stringent Arizona border law might have just made the incline a little steeper for many Western Democrats, providing instant fodder to Republicans who are already optimistic about regaining ground lost over the last two election cycles. The dust from the Department of Justice lawsuit filed Tuesday is just starting to ...
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Fake marriage flop... HONOLULU (AP) - After deliberating for weeks, Hawaii's governor has vetoed a bill that would have permitted same-sex civil unions. Tuesday's veto came on the final day that Republican Gov. Linda Lingle had to either sign or veto the contentious bill. The Hawaii Legislature had approved it in late April. Had Lingle not vetoed it, ...
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Jerusalem Post: US President Barack Obama’s attempts to portray himself as pro-Israel in his press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday failed to persuade right-wing MKs, who warned that Obama is “still evil.†The MKs questioned the president’s motives and suggested that he was putting on a show for American Jews ...
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The Telegraph: Teachers will be encouraged to restrain unruly pupils as part of a drive to improve discipline in schools, ministers are to announce. Staff will also be able to search children for a wide range of items and punish those misbehaving with immediate detentions, the proposals will say. Teachers who are the subject of complaints from ...
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The Week: With the nation mired in unemployment, liberal economists have been pulling the fire alarm with increasing urgency. But the fire department isn't coming. My friends Kevin O'Rourke and Barry Eichengreen in the office next door were chief among those economists warning at the start of 2009 that the shock to the world economy inflicted by ...
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San Francisco Gate: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer pounded today on the issue of jobs in her first campaign barnstorm of the state, lambasting her GOP opponent and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as a "disastrous" executive who laid off thousands of workers and shipped jobs overseas while earning millions. Boxer, on a two-day state swing she called ...
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