A Letter to Michael Steele
Dear Michael, You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party. Your tenure has
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Barack Obama: Nasa must try to make Muslims ‘feel good’
Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an “Earth improvement agency”. Mr Bolden said: “When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
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Blast Off! Health-Care Challenge Gets Airing in Virginia
You can best bet that when members of the
Read this story »House Republicans Detail ObamaCare’s Broken Promises
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on June 23 released a report entitled ObamaCare: Three Months of Broken Promises. The 41-page document (PDF)
Read this story »ObamaCare and the Independent Vote
The Democrats made a strategic choice to pass health reform even though they knew it did not have majority support. They assumed passage would generate
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Obama, Netanyahu try to mend fences
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to exude a new sense of warmth in their rocky relationship Tuesday as both expressed
Read this story »Gen. Petraeus, ‘we are in this to win’
Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring “we are in this to win”
Read this story »Bidens spend 4th in Iraq
On a surprise Fourth of July weekend trip to Baghdad, Vice President Joe Biden said
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America is sinking under Obama’s towering debt
I hope the White House is paying attention to the latest annual Congressional Budget Office Long-Term Budget Outlook, which offers a truly frightening
Read this story »CBO says debt will reach 62 percent of GDP by year’s end
The national debt will reach 62 percent of gross domestic product GDP by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office CBO said Wednesday. The
Read this story »Death marks end of an era
The death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) on Monday is likely to have broad repercussions on a range of issues, from Wall Street regulation and climate change
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President Obama juggles competing issues of immigration and climate
President Barack Obama hosted two groups of lawmakers at the White House Tuesday on a pair of legislative issues that have divided the Democratic Party
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Poll: More Think Obama Stimulus Hurt Employment Than Helped
A plurality of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s stimulus package has harmed economic
Read this story »Barack Obama’s ‘politics as usual’ revealed by Rod Blagojevich trial
In a year when Americans are arguably more cynical and disillusioned about politics than at any time since Watergate, the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich
Read this story »Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List
The oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse by
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Interracial marriage: more than double the rate in the 1980s
Americans are more likely than ever before to marry outside their race or ethnicity. Nearly 1 in 7 marriages in 2008 was interracial or interethnic, according
Read this story »Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses Holder of Dropping New Black Panther Case for Racial Reasons
Read this story »South Carolina Candidates Poised for Historic Victories on Day of High-Stakes Runoffs
A state known for its racially charged politics may be on the cusp of nominating an Indian-American woman for governor and a black man for U.S. representative.
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High Court’s Gun Ruling Cites Intent of 14th Amendment
In 1868, Republican Representative Thaddeus Stevens, who was directly involved in ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was not
Read this story »Kagan will be the Obama of the Supreme Court
Now more of us understand that running a successful political campaign does not qualify one to be President. Real job qualifications matter when it comes
Read this story »Challenged by GOP, Kagan says she reveres military
Challenged bluntly by Republicans, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan
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Bias and the IPCC report: Accentuate the negative
FOR everyone else it was the glaciers: for the Dutch it was the flooding. Last January errors in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hit the headlines. The chapter on Asia
Read this story »Unemployment in America: Labour without force
THE best that can be said about the June jobs report is that it doesn’t signal a
Read this story »Why Did the Unemployment Rate Drop?
The unemployment rate fell in June to 9.5% from 9.7%, reaching its lowest point since last July. But the decline wasn’t due to improvement in the labor market. Instead, jobless Americans dropped out
Read this story »More Al Qaeda Links to Terror in U.S.
U.S. counterterrorism officials have linked one of the nation’;s most wanted terrorists to last year’s thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system, authorities said Wednesday. Current
Read this story »June Was Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops in Nine-Year-Long War in Afghanistan
June 2010 was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nine-year-long war in Afghanistan. As of July 1, 59 U.S. military fatalities were reported
Read this story »US approves $33bn for Afghanistan troop increase
The House’ Democratic leaders, who had procrastinated for weeks
Read this story »Feds Say Arrests of Illegal Immigrants Are Down, But Problems Still Remain
This much is certain: The number of illegal immigrants apprehended along America’;s southern border plummeted by 54 percent between 2005 and 2009. But, like everything else surrounding the fractious
Read this story »White House View: Never Let a Crisis Go Without a Tax
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” So said Rahm Emanuel, President
Read this story »Nuclear proliferation in South Asia: The power of nightmares
AT FIRST sight, China’s proposed sale of two civilian nuclear-power reactors to Pakistan hardly seems a danger sign. Pakistan already has the bomb, so it has all the nuclear secrets it needs. Next-door
Read this story »Stocks tumble on global economic worries
Stocks and interest rates tumbled Tuesday after fresh signs of a global economic slowdown spooked investors. U.S. markets
Read this story »Russia says US spy arrests are Cold War throwback
Moscow reacted angrily after ten people were detained in America and
Read this story »Petraeus: U.S. Will Remain in Afghanistan for a ‘Long Time to Come’
Gen. David Petraeus echoed world leaders on Tuesday, saying the U.S. will “need to provide assistance
Read this story »Kagan’s Office Delays FOIA Response Because It Doesn’t Know What the Meaning of ‘The Administration’s Health-Care Reform Plan’ Is
The office of Solicitor General Elena Kagan has delayed responding to a Freedom of Information Act FOIA request submitted by CNSNews.com that seeks
Read this story »Bork Says Kagan Lacks ‘Mature Philosophy’ Needed in a Justice; Says Court is Becoming ‘Committee of Ideologues’
Former federal appellate judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork says Elena Kagan lacks the “mature philosophy of judging” needed to be a Supreme Court justice and that the Supreme Court
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