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joi, 7 octombrie 2010

GOP allies make Colo. a top target

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US News News - October 7, 2010
Watching an "Oprah" show about holiday craft tips? The commercial break includes a piece starring a sickly man in a hospital bed with dire warnings about the health care overhaul supported by Sen.
Obama to campaign in Maryland, Illinois (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
Campaigning for Democrats in a string of blue states, President Barack Obama is warning his party's rank-and-file of the dangers of "sulking and sitting back." The day after raising cash for Democrats in New Jersey, Obama is headed Thursday to a rally for Gov.
U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota has been in politics so long that when he talks about his district helping deliver the presidency to a promising young Democrat, he means John F. Kennedy.
A conservative organization is running ads against five incumbent House Democrats, saying voters need to stop them from expanding the size of government.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Wednesday he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online.
New Yorkers using food stamps will not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being put forward by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson.
Gay Americans have arrived at a "teachable moment." Often feeling marginalized in political discourse or grousing that they're used as political pawns, they have the nation's attention - and sympathy - after a recent spate of teenage suicides and two apparent anti-gay attacks in the heart of their community.
Nearly a year after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said.
First Todd Palin was mad at Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller for stepping around the question of whether his wife is qualified to be president.
The three-way race for the Senate became a discussion of extremes during a debate Wednesday night - radical-right, far-left and all over the place.
Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.
The government is looking into allegations that mortgage lenders in the foreclosure crisis have been evicting homeowners using flawed court papers, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
The spill was reported Tuesday afternoon, and cleanup crews were on the scene Wednesday.
Philadelphia Phillies Roy Halladay made his postseason debut on Wednesday, and in doing so, made major league baseball history.
U.S. and Mexican officials are just now fully employing a gun-tracing program touted as a key deterrent to weapons-smuggling, nearly three years after it was first announced in Mexico and weeks after an inspector general's preliminary report called it underused and unsuccessful.

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duminică, 3 octombrie 2010

Details emerge on no-tax California budget pact

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US News News - October 3, 2010
After a record-long impasse, California legislators are set to vote this week on a no-new-taxes budget that relies on a combination of spending cuts and optimistic financial projections to close a $19 billion deficit.
U.S. Senate hopeful Rand Paul marshaled the political firepower of two tea party stalwarts, including his congressman father, at a rally Saturday in northern Kentucky's GOP stronghold.
First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court's docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.The court will look at provocative anti-gay protests at military funerals and a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children.
Sgt. Steve Martos says officers who stopped a vehicle for a minor traffic infraction at about 11 a.m. Saturday questioned the people inside, who told them they had just arrived from Mexico and that other illegal immigrants were in a nearby house.
Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.
It used to be that getting elected in Chicago meant relying on the ward boss, the precinct captain and the small armies they deployed to fix potholes, hand out frozen turkeys and even drive people to the polls.
The Navy acknowledges that there have been problems with the special coating that helps to make the Virginia and other nuclear-powered attack submarines in that class stealthy.
The USS Virginia shed pieces of its sonar-absorbent skin while on patrol, giving the submarine's hull a pockmarked appearance as it arrived for repairs at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
A concave surface will focus sound or light onto a focal point. Unfortunately, those designing the concave-shaped reflective facade of the MGM Resorts International Vdara hotel and condominium, which opened on the Las Vegas "strip" in December, overlooked that fact, something high school physics students know. It's created what some have jokingly called "a death ray."
If John McCain hadn't made it clear before, he's leaving no doubt that the presidency is a dream gone by.
Tiger Woods and his partner, Steve Stricker, have won again at the Ryder Cup. Woods, whose year has been nothing short of terrible and traumatic, seems to have saved his best play for the Ryder Cup.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been very open with his opinion of the decision of HP's board to out then-CEO Mark Hurd what amounted to an expense report scandal .
Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats - in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas - and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses.
Saturday is the 60th anniversary of "Peanuts," the classic syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles Schulz.
About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept.

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