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Cuomo Fumes Over 'A**hole' Tea Partier
(Newser) - Andrew Cuomo isn’t exactly sure how to fight back against his Tea Party opponent Carl Paladino, who yesterday sent out a letter less-than-subtly questioning his manhood . “If a guy says you have no cojones, how do you punch him back, call him an asshole?” Cuomo fumed in a... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Russian Gay Activist: Cops Kidnapped Me
(Newser) - One of Russia's leading gay rights activists says he was kidnapped by security services as he tried to board a flight from Moscow to Geneva last week. Nikolai Alexeyev, who has repeatedly clashed with authorities in Moscow over his efforts to organize gay rights demonstrations, says he was taken from... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Jon Stewart: GOP Is the Tea Party
(Newser) - With Karl Rove having fallen into line after some pressure from Sarah Palin and endorsed Christine O'Donnell , it's time to stop talking about the Tea Party movement as "a battle for the Republican Party's soul," argues Jon Stewart. The Tea Partiers are, at heart, conservative Republicans and they've... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Witches Furious With O'Donnell
(Newser) - Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell apparently didn't release she was risking votes when she denounced her witchcraft-dabbling past as a brief fling with "questionable" people. Now witches are furious. "She is defaming Wiccans," High Priestess Selena Fox told the Huffington Post . "America needs to be a place... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Middle Class Voter to Obama: I'm Still Waiting for Change
(Newser) - An angry black middle class voter confronted President Obama at a Town Hall meeting yesterday, saying: "I'm still waiting " for change. The woman, at the meeting arranged and broadcast live by CNBC, said she was "exhausted" defending the president, "exhausted defending the mantle of change that... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Coming Soon: Rumsfeld, Uncensored
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld is going to add another title to his lengthy resume: Author. And it's not likely to be some whitewashed version of his controversial oversight of the Iraq war, but rather the two-time defense secretary's very blunt take, notes Ben Smith on Politico. Proof? When Known and Unknown... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Mitt Romney 2012, Meet Clinton 2008
(Newser) - Mitt Romney has done everything right in his quest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. His speech at the Values Voters summit this weekend was a perfect expression of his socially and fiscally conservative views; but he garnered a measly 13% in a straw poll, finishing behind Mikes Pence and... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Liberals Fast Losing Faith in Democrats
(Newser) - Congress is once again playing the role of the nation's whipping boy, with its approval rating hitting a basement-dwelling 18% in a new USA Today/Gallup poll suggests. And while it's no surprise that conservatives disapprove of the Democrat-controlled Capitol, support has plummeted among left-wingers: Only 32% and 35% of those... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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NY Welcomes Ahmadinejad... With Protests
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is getting a rousing welcome to the Big Apple this week, but not in a nice way: Several of New York's top politicians are protesting Ahmadinejad's regime while he attends a UN General Assembly meeting, reports the AP. Among them, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and David Paterson, who denounces... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Bush-Era FBI Put Liberal Activists on Terror List
(Newser) - The FBI investigated and monitored a variety of liberal activist groups without proper cause during the Bush Administration, the Justice Department concluded today. Though the Inspector General cleared the FBI of the most serious allegation against it—that it targeted the groups based on how they exercised their First Amendment... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Paladino to Cuomo: C'Mon, Be a Man
(Newser) - As love letters go, Andrew Cuomo's probably gotten better: Tea Partier Carl Paladino, recent upset winner of the GOP's gubernatorial nod, took the gloves off to write New York's attorney general a scathing note in which he invited "Dear Andrew" to "for the first time in your life... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama Takes on Disgruntled Wall Streeters
(Newser) - President Obama insisted he was not “anti-business” today, as he was confronted with several angry businesspeople in a town hall-style event on CNBC . “I have been amused over the last couple of years by this sense of me beating up on Wall Street,” Obama said. “Most... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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DEA: Hand Over Your Drugs
(Newser) - You know that 6-year-old bottle of antibiotics sitting in your medicine cabinet left over from that really bad case of strep throat? The DEA wants it. No, really. This Saturday, it's offering Americans a chance to safely dump their expired or unwanted prescription meds in what it's calling a "... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Rally an 'Odd Choice' for Normally 'Distant' Jon Stewart
(Newser) - The media have increasingly moved from reporting politics to getting involved in politics, and now even Jon Stewart —“whose career and influence are built on observing politics from a coolly ironic distance”—has been drawn in, writes David Carr in the New York Times . The “Rally... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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White House Blasts New York Times Report
(Newser) - The White House is fighting hard against this New York Times report , which claims that President Obama's advisers are considering an ad blitz linking the GOP to the Tea Party. “The Times is just flat-out, 100% wrong,” a White House official tells Politico . “The first time Obama’... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Why Don't We Execute Women Who Abort?
(Newser) - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell thinks Teresa Lewis deserves to die because she bought guns for the men who killed her husband and stepson, and left the door unlocked so they could get in. Taking a life by proxy, in McDonnell’s book, is murder. “Yet every day thousands of... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Graham: White House Bailed on Gitmo Talks
(Newser) - There was a time when the White House and Sen. Lindsey Graham seemed close to striking a bipartisan deal on closing Guantanamo Bay and other national security issues, but in May those talks “went completely dead,” Graham tells Politico . “They could never quite pull the trigger,”... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama's a Secret Muslim: O'Donnell's Old Campaign Chief
(Newser) - Another day, another person calling President Obama a secret Muslim —only this time, the person in question has a history with Christine O’Donnell. Jon Moseley, who's described himself as manager of O'Donnell's failed 2008 Senate campaign and also worked as its treasurer, is a longtime activist who's toiled... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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What GOP Will Do With a House Majority
(Newser) - If Republicans win the House in November, they’ll highlight their differences with Democrats by starving signature policies—like health care—of cash, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although the GOP hopes to repeal the health care bill in the House, such a measure would likely fail in the Senate,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Clinton: Whoops, I Thought Health Care Would Be Popular
(Newser) - Bill Clinton thought that once it was signed into law, Barack Obama's health care reform bill would become amazingly popular. But the polls are in, and now Clinton admits he miscalculated, the Hill reports. "First of all, the benefits of the bill are spread out of three or four... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Beck to Michelle: 'Get Away From My French Fries'
(Newser) - Glenn Beck rallied the right at an event in Illinois over the weekend, invoking God, the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson—and deep fried potatoes. Speaking to a crowd of some 300, Beck mocked Michelle Obama's healthy heating campaign , reports the Chicago Sun Times . "Get away from my french fries,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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The Rich Are Mad as Hell, and Getting Away With It
(Newser) - “Anger is sweeping America,” Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times , and no, “I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers. I’m talking about the rich.” Although the recession has taken homes and jobs away from millions of poor Americans, “real political rage”... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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