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Jun 072010
Jun 072010
Nineteen months after celebrating U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic election win, disappointed liberal activists promised on Monday to turn up the political heat on a White House they said is too quick to compromise. At an annual conference of grassroots progressives, they said the euphoria and high expectations after Obama’s victory had lulled them into [Read more...]
Jun 072010
Politico By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 6/7/10 With the investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel nearing its second anniversary, the New York Democrat and the House ethics committee face a new challenge — the political calendar. Rangel, a member of Congress since 1971, filed for reelection Sunday, and the Democratic primary in New York is Sept. 14. [Read more...]
Jun 072010
AFP by Karin Zeitvogel Karin Zeitvogel – Sun Jun 6 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nearly a million gallons of dispersant have been poured into the Gulf of Mexico to fight the largest oil spill in US history, even though little is known about their effects fishermen claim makes them sick and kills sea life. At least [Read more...]
Jun 072010
NORTH BERGEN — The bravado was juvenile, but chilling. In a phone conversation secretly recorded by federal authorities last November, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, the 20-year-old North Bergen man arrested Saturday night with a friend for planning to join a terrorist organization, boasted he would bring jihad to the United States if thwarted from doing so [Read more...]
Jun 072010
When “not illegal” is the best thing that the White House can say about the behavior of the president’s top aides, it’s not a good sign. But the Obama administration finds itself holding the sleazy-but-legal line on deals Rahm Emanuel and his lieutenant, Jim Messina, tried to cut to keep Democrats Joe Sestak and Andrew [Read more...]
Jun 072010
Byfuglien’s 2 goals, 2 assists help move club within 1 win of first Cup since ’61 By Chris Kuc, Tribune reporter In the most important hockey game played around these parts in about four decades, the Blackhawks put together one of their most inspired offensive efforts in roughly the same time frame. The Hawks [Read more...]
Jun 072010
MRC By: Brent Baker “Sooner or later, we’ll blame this on George W. Bush,” George Will presciently predicted on Sunday’s Week during the roundtable’s look as how President Barack Obama is handling the gulf oil leak. Seconds later, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington didn’t let Will down, declaring “the truth is, that right now we [Read more...]
Jun 072010
American Thinker By Stuart Schwartz ~ Hat Tip Char You are Barack Obama, and you know how to party. And now, as oil hits the Florida beaches and dying wildlife and desperate Louisiana fishermen fill the cable news in searing testimony to what Reuters is calling our “worst environmental disaster,” you are doing what you [Read more...]