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Where is Obama’s hope and change? Fed Offers Bleak Economic Outlook
[Via NYTimes] The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, vowed on Wednesday to do whatever it took to pull the economy out of its downward spiral, even as he acknowledged that the most recent indicators were “dismal.”
Speaking at the National Press Club, the first time that a Fed chairman has taken questions from […]
Man Kills Himself In Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral
A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday, police and church officials said. The man handed a note and his driver’s license to two ushers, walked to the cross and then shot himself in the head as he appeared to be praying, Senior […]
Right Direction or Wrong Track - 26% Say U.S. is Moving in the Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of American voters say the nation is moving in the right direction, while 66% say it is heading down the wrong track, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The number of voters who think America is moving in the right direction is down slightly from last week’s high of 29%, […]
Italian Bus Boasting Anti-God Ad Breaks Down on First Trip
[Via Fox News] The first Italian bus to boast an atheist advertisement rolled out Monday and certainly did not have God on its side.
No sooner had the bus — carrying the message, “The Good News Is There Are Millions of Atheists In Italy; The Excellent News Is They Believe In Freedom Of Expression” –- hit […]
27-year-old Illinois Congressman turns down Obama’s plea
[Via-CNN] It’s not often that a freshman member of Congress gets a ride on Air Force One and a personal shout-out from the President himself in front of the hometown crowd. Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock got both last week but still voted against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill.After joining Obama on the presidential […]
New York: Founder and CEO of Muslim TV channel beheads wife
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
“He […]
Chicago Sun Times: “Obama offers no housing fix, little hope”
The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We’re all in this leaky boat together.
Still, doubts […]
Obama is headed for a one-term presidency
Less than a month ago, Barack Obama was sworn-in as chief executive amid historic promises of “change we can believe in.” But there won’t be a second Obama term if he doesn’t admit that, no matter how adroitly he wraps himself in Reaganesque rhetoric, Leviathan is no better suited for 2009 than it was in […]
Missing: 67 computers from Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab
The Department of Energy confirms a public-watchdog’s investigation that 67 computers are missing from the Los Alamos Nuclear National Laboratory, the AP reports. Of those, 13 have been lost or stolen in the past year.
The New Mexico lab, which is run by the Energy Department, says no classified information has been released. Computers with classified […]
Barack Obama is a novice - and it shows
[Via The Telegraph] After a rocky start, the new President knows he has to seize back the political agenda, says Toby Harnden. During last year’s epic election campaign, Hillary Clinton said that in the White House “there is no time for on-the-job training”. Joe Biden, too, remarked that the presidency was “not something that lends […]
Biden: 30 Percent Chance We’ll Get It Wrong
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the economic stimulus package, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“But when we do [approve it], I’m sure you’re going to be nailed in ads, ‘Well they voted on that’ 30 second ads,” Biden told roughly 200 members of […]
Say good bye to cheap gas:Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
[Via The Salt Lake Tribune] Barely two weeks after pushing the federal government into a corner over a chaotic oil- and gas-lease sale, conservation organizations threw more punches Tuesday, hoping to overturn a Bush administration quest to maximize drilling in Utah’s redrock country.
Eleven conservation and historic-preservation groups amended a lawsuit that already has resulted in […]
Pentagon: Iran’s Domestic Satellite Launch Is Grave Cause for Concern
[Via FoxNews.com] Iran’s launch of its first satellite into space is a grave cause for concern to the U.S. as the Islamic Republic continues to work toward developing long-range missile capability, the Pentagon and White House said Tuesday.
Tuesday’s launch of its first domestically made satellite “does not convince us […]
Remember Joe the plumber? - Now, it’s Tom Daschle who forgot to pay taxes–$128,000 worth
[Via LA Times] More simple, inadvertent, overlooked, accidental, good-faith tax mistakes in the would-be Obama Cabinet.This time it’s Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and Senate Democratic leader who got knocked off by the Republicans in 2004, shown here demonstrating the size of his tax mistakes over three years.
President Obama had wanted Daschle to […]
Pro-life Obama Ad Viewed over 250,000 Times in Three Days
A video advertisement being dubbed the “pro-life Obama ad” has been well received by Americans during the week of President Barack Obama’s inauguration. The ad has already been viewed hundreds of thousands of time online, and will soon be appearing on major US television networks.
The ad shows an ultrasound of a baby in a womb, […]
It may get ugly: Toledo Police brace for possible civil unrest
TOLEDO, OHIO — Toledo police are gearing up for possible “Civil unrest” during and after tomorrow’s elections.In an internal memo obtained exclusively by NBC 24 News, officers are ordered to “Have their riot equipment with them Tuesday and Wednesday”. Police chief Mike Navarre confirms, officers will have gear similar to the equipment they used during […]
Some Democrats jump party lines for McCain
Kevin DuJan, a lifelong Democrat, was so dedicated to his party that he once abandoned a blind date to avoid going out with a Republican.
“In third grade, the teacher asked us the difference between Democrats and Republicans, and I got up without thinking and said, ‘Democrats are good, Republicans are evil.’ That’s what I really […]
ABCNews: “Ayers, Farrakhan Vote at Same Polling Location as Obama”
CHICAGO, Ill. — Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.
Seriously.
Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.
Read more at ABCNews.com
NewsChannel5 uncovers thousands of dead voters in Ohio
Jeremy Moore, Holmes’ grandson, was stunned.”He’s deceased. Deceased since 1993,” Moore said.
And it doesn’t appear to be a name mix-up.
Records reveal Alex Holmes Jr. — who is still alive — voted in the same election as his deceased father.
Cuyahoga County Elections Director Jane Platten said she’ll look in to it.
“Without having full detail, I have […]
KnoxNews: She sang Obama Praises but Voted McCain - The Bradley Effect - a first-person Tennessee tale
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/granju/2008/11/the-bradley-effect-a-firstpers.htmlAn e-mail from a friend who attended the Tennessee Titans game in Nashville yesterday:
There is a group of us who generally tailgate together. Among them is a
teacher from another middle Tennessee town near Nashville. Yesterday, she asked me if I had voted, and I told her I had voted for Obama and I sure hope […]