The Pit Bull in the China Shop
New York Times - 40 minutes agoSarah Palin is far and away the most important brand in American politics after Barack Obama. Her 15 minutes is far from up.
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Sarah Palin is far and away the most important brand in American politics after Barack Obama. Her 15 minutes is far from up.
FDIC Expects Cost of Bank Failures to Hit $100 Billion in 4 Years
No sooner were the latest unemployment numbers released Friday morning than politicians offered their takes, illustrating that no fact will go un-spun this campaign season.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ideclared the drop in statewide unemployment from 13.3 percent to 13 percent a “positive development.” Gov. Jim Gibbons, however, had a different, more somber, take.
You would have thought they were rock stars, not graying politicians, the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants were welcomed at a Senate reception the day after Reid’s health care bill was introduced.
A climate change treaty in Copenhagen has been tabled, in part, because the United States Senate has failed to make the reduction of emissions a priority.
Michael R. Ruck, tax manager, joined Malin Bergquist. Kline, Keppel & Koryak P.C. hired Aaron M. Powell as a staff accountant. Elias/Savion Advertising Inc.
Their faces go by in a blur, mostly because the children receiving H1N1 flu shots are more focused on the needles than who's injecting them. But for Morris County Medical Reserve Corps members, it's fine. The volunteers don't lend their time for personal recognition.
Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would likely set back warming US ties with China.
It might even draw Fort Worth students, Robert A.M. Stern says.
Fire and police departments need to be able to talk with one another.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.
The United States must tighten control of Afghan aid contracts as a first step toward stemming rampant corruption, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
C notes The famous row house on C Street Southeast where South Carolina’s disgraced governor, Mark Sanford, sought counseling after his affair — as did Sen. John Ensign of Nevada after his affair — has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes.
Organizers of the Bakersfield Business Conference announce that 2008 Republican Primary Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Legendary Entertainer Ronnie Milsap will address the Business Conference on October 9, 2010.
The Republicans have finally gone off the deep end. They are so crazed over President Obama's election, they're beside themselves with vehemence.
It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired the famous Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.
The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
A relationship Obama should nurture.
The soft bigotry of high expectations.
Troubled Air Force tanker, construction cash headed to Panhandle, and plane tickets home for the holidays.
Associated Press Writer CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.