Archive for December, 2009
13 GOP AGs threaten health bill suit
Thirteen Republican state attorneys general are threatening to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Senate health care bill. In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Wednesday, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster
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Limbaugh Taken to Hospital With Chest Pains
A Honolulu television station is reporting that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been taken to a hospital with chest pains.KITV reported Wednesday that paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing. via Limbaugh
Republican calls on Napolitano to resign
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) on Tuesday became the first lawmaker to call on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to resign after the recent attempted airline bombing. The veteran member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called for Napolitano’s ouster in the wake of the attack on the Northwest
Power to the (Conservative) People
As a Jewish child, I never celebrated Christmas. I found out what I was missing on Christmas Eve, 1973. My high school boyfriend Brian invited me to join his family for their celebration. The event floored me. It wasn’t just the illuminated tree, the music, and the pleasure of opening gifts. It
Northwest Flight 253: al Qaeda Leaders Behind Terror Plot Were Released by U.S.
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest
Lieberman: Yemen will be ‘tomorrow’s war’ if pre-emptive action not taken
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)Sunday said that Yemen could be the ground of America’s next overseas war if Washington does not take preemptive action to root out al-Qaeda interests there. Lieberman, who helms the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on “Fox News
Questions Surround Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
The government’s move to ease the limits on the securities holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has ignited a debate among analysts about what the companies will do with their longer leash. When the Treasury Department took over Fannie and Freddie last year, one of the requirements they set for
Airliner suicide mission blessed by imam
The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times. via Airliner
‘US, Yemen looking at al-Qaida strike’
Yemen said Wednesday it will continue hunting down al-Qaida members and launching military strikes against them until the group’s powerful branch in the country is eliminated. via CNN: ‘US,
Iran arrests 1,000 as protests strengthen
The Iranian regime, desperate to restore order after massive protests, arrested more than 1,000 people Monday in an increasingly doubtful bid to suppress an opposition movement that appears to be growing stronger by the day. Among those arrested were a septuagenarian former foreign minister and top aides
