Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Another human foot washes up in Vancouver

Severed foot in running shoe just the latest in a roughly a dozen such cases since 2007

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Right Turn: Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?

The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action with movement on trade pacts with C...

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Grassley Backpedals After Town Hall Constituent Corrects Him On Health Care ?Rationing? Lie

ThinkProgress filed this report from a town hall in Carroll, Iowa. Politifact’s 2009 “Lie of the Year” was that the landmark health care reform legislation contained a clause authorizing “death panels.” The smear, started by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), was propagated by other Republicans, including long-time Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who warned that [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/08/31/308962/chuck-grassley-town-hall-rationing/

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Obama's Economic-Policy Last Chance

Tony Blankley, Washington Times
President Obama's post-Labor Day "jobs" speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect - both economic and political - before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood, they are: a timid hodgepodge of previous proposals, a bold left-of-center initiative or a turn to a free-market “nuclear option.”It’s that nuclear option that is the most fascinating (and most unlikely). He could decide to embrace all the major Republican, Tea Party free-market ideas -...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/31/obamas_economic-policy_last_chance_111135.html

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Gas prices, Japan and leadership likely to dominate at Obama's news conference

President Obama is planning a news conference at 12:30 Friday afternoon that the White House announced will focus on high energy prices. He will also no doubt address the massive earthquake in Japan, which has spawned a tsunami whose waves have hit Hawaii and Alaska.

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Obama Administration Tries to Set Record Straight on Mobbing of U.S. Envoy to Syria

Loyalists of President Bashar al-Assad who mobbed the U.S. ambassador to Syria last week in Damascus made ?a feeble attempt to divert the world?s attention from what?s really going on in Syria with the Syrian people,? State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday.


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Whining Can't Hide Failure of Obamanomics

Steve Huntley, Chicago ST
That's a mighty wind blowing from the east. No, I'm not talking about Hurricane Irene. It's the blustery gusts stirred up long before Irene by the constant whining from the Obama White House: Everything but the administration’s own policies are responsible for the faltering economy.Irene is only the latest of the “head winds” White House officials blame for feeble economic growth and persistent high unemployment. There was the earthquake/tsunami in Japan, the fiscal crisis in Greece, the civil war in Libya on top of Arab Spring uprisings in other...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/30/whining_can039t_hide_failure_of_obamanomics_262516.html

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Commerce Secretary Locke nominated for China ambassador post

President Obama on Wednesday officially nominated Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next U.S. ambassador to China, continuing a reshuffling of top administration officials over the past several months.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

White House Hosts Hundreds of Bowlers in May

Visitor logs show dozens of visitors came to go bowling.

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FEMA Funding: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano Warns Against 'Political Gridlock'

A fight is brewing on Capitol Hill over emergency funding for FEMA.

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Tears, shouts as terror hearing becomes political

WASHINGTON -- Congress pushed deep into a raw and emotional debate Thursday over American Muslims who have committed terrorist attacks in the name of religion, in a hearing punctuated by tearful testimony, angry recriminations and political theater.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031000343.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Watch: Earthquake Caught on Tape

Cameras shake as 5.8 earthquake is felt in the nation's capital.

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Watch: Rep. Rogers: Gadhafi's Weapons 'Very Dangerous'

Congressman warns weapons could spark "black market bonanza" for terrorists.

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