An Iraqi soldier opened fire on a U.S. military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and wounding three, the U.S. military said, in an attack... »
Politics
Hostile bloggers facing fines, jail?
A new proposal in Congress is threatening fines and jail time for what it calls "cyberbullying" – communications that include e-mails and text messages that "cause substantial emotional distress." The vague generalities are included in H.R. 1966 by California Democrat Linda Sanchez and about a dozen co-sponsors. But it already is being condemned as unconstitutional, unrealistic and probably ineffectual. ... »
New gun law aimed at asserting sovereignty
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a bill that aims to exempt Montana-made guns from federal regulation, adding firepower to a battery of legislative efforts to assert states’ rights across the nation. “It’s a gun bill, but it’s another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana,” Democrat Schweitzer said. Since the law applies only to those guns that... »
Fate of Boston Globe hangs in the balance
The fate of the Boston Globe dangled by a thread today after the paper’s largest union walked away from the bargaining table without an agreement more than six hours after management’s midnight deadline for the conclusion of talks. Boston Newspaper Guild negotiators went home around 6:45 this morning, saying they only intended to take a break, but refusing comment on whether... »
Government-Run Health Insurance Program Made Almost $19 Billion in Improper Payments in 2008
Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for low income people that is administered by state governments and funded by federal taxpayers, made almost $19 billion in improper payments in 2008, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office last week. These improper payments equaled the largest share--26 percent--of all improper government payments in 2008. But most of those payments were the result of errors, not deliberate fraud, according to the... »
Gates: 100 at Gitmo could wind up in U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Thursday that as many as 100 detainees would be held without trial on U.S. soil if the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were closed, a situation that he acknowledged would create widespread, if not unanimous, opposition in Congress. The estimate was the most specific yet from the Obama administration about how many of the 241... »
DHS Domestic Extremism report includes ‘alternative media’ and ‘tax resisters’
Two weeks before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penned its controversial report warning against "right-wing extremists" in the United States, it generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups – animal rights activists, black separatists, tax protesters, even worshippers of the Norse god Odin – as potential "threats." Though the "Domestic Extremism Lexicon" was reportedly rescinded almost immediately,... »
Feds Investigating John Edwards’ Use of Campaign Funds
Failed presidential candidate John Edwards, whose political action committee paid more than $100,000 to his mistress' company, acknowledged Sunday that federal investigators were looking into how he handled his campaign funds. But the former North Carolina senator said he was confident no money was used improperly. Edwards' political action committee has been under scrutiny for making payments to a woman with whom... »
Cass Sunstein for Souter slot?
The announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter could result in Barack Obama's nomination of a man who has been an outspoken proponent of tough restriction on gun sales and ownership, a ban on hunting, animal rights and what has been characterized as a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet. Cass Sunstein, a law professor friend of the president... »
Specter’s Defection Could Help Republicans Block a Nominee to Replace Souter
At first glance, with Democrats a hair away from a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, one would expect President Obama to have no trouble hand-picking a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. But in an ironic twist, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party this week could give Republicans on the... »
Obama Sets Terms, Timeline for Finding Souter Replacement
President Obama said he hopes to have his first nominee to the Supreme Court seated by the start of the next term, in October, as he confirmed Friday afternoon that Justice David Souter is retiring from the nation's highest court. Obama, who interrupted the daily White House press briefing... »
NY Post
- A boost for Basil September 3, 2010 By CARL CAMPANILE
- Lazio leading Paladino: poll September 3, 2010 By FREDRIC U. DICKER
- Gov: Indian tax war ain't over September 3, 2010 By BRENDAN SCOTT Post Correspondent
Washington Times
- Draft alien-detention rules could run afoul of the law, senators say September 3, 2010 Stephen Dinan
- Draft alien-detention rules could run afoul of the law, senators say September 3, 2010 Stephen Dinan
- Draft alien-detention rules could run afoul of the law, senators say September 3, 2010 Stephen Dinan
- Draft alien-detention rules could run afoul of the law, senators say September 3, 2010 Stephen Dinan
- Veteran Democrats vulnerable September 3, 2010 Angela K. Brown
- Veteran Democrats vulnerable September 3, 2010 Angela K. Brown
- Inside the Beltway September 3, 2010 Jennifer Harper
- In Delaware, GOP insurgent O'Donnell storms Castle September 3, 2010 David Eldridge
- In Delaware, GOP insurgent O'Donnell storms Castle September 3, 2010 David Eldridge
- In Delaware, GOP insurgent O'Donnell storms Castle September 3, 2010 David Eldridge
