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Giuliani Running Again? Don't Bet On It
(Newser) - The New York Post gave political bloggers plenty to buzz about today with its Page Six item asserting that Rudy Giuliani is getting ready to run for president again. At Salon , Steve Kornacki isn't biting. It's "understandable" Giuliani would want to run given the wide-open GOP field, he writes—... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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GOP Has Alternate Plan to Kill Health Care Bill
(Newser) - The vote Republicans take to repeal the health care law next week will be purely symbolic—there’s no way repeal would get through the Senate and White House—but Republicans have a Plan B. It's called choke off the money. Congressman Steve King is floating a rule that would... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Plan in Iowa to Impeach Judges Is Dangerous
(Newser) - Throughout US history, “no matter how controversial the case, no state or federal judge has been impeached for an opinion issued from the bench,” writes Bert Brandenburg in the Washington Post . But now, activists in Iowa want to impeach the justices who voted to allow same-sex marriage in... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Elizabeth Edwards Leaves Kids $1.5M Estate
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards’ three children are set to receive an estate worth almost $1.5 million, reports Raleigh's News & Observer . The family won’t have to pay estate tax because the law expired last year, when she died. Edwards owned two homes, one valued at $6.75 million and the... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama Names Gene Sperling Top Economic Adviser
(Newser) - President Obama named current Treasury adviser Gene Sperling as his next top economic aide today, taking over for Larry Summers as director of the National Economic Council, the AP reports. It’s familiar territory, the Los Angeles Times adds: Sperling had the same job under Bill Clinton, and he faced... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Bristol Offered Arizona Radio Show
(Newser) - Bristol Palin has conquered television ... now on to radio? Phoenix radio station Mix 96.9 has asked Bristol to co-host a morning show, KPHO reports. "Bristol's outlook on life is probably different from mine, and that contrast could be interesting to listen to," said her potential co-host. It’... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Ex-CIA Agent Arrested Over Leak to Times Reporter
(Newser) - A former CIA officer has been arrested and charged with leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter. Jeffrey Sterling, 43, was nabbed yesterday, and is being held through the weekend because the government has declared him dangerous. The indictment didn’t say what he’d leaked, but connecting... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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GOP: OK, We Do Have to Raise the Debt Ceiling
(Newser) - Tim Geithner sent a letter to Congress yesterday warning of the dire consequences the country will face if Republicans don’t raise the debt ceiling before the US hits it—and newly minted Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan conceded that he was right. “Will the debt ceiling have to... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama's 2nd Fox News Interview to Be With ... O'Reilly
(Newser) - Football fans who prefer politics to a pre-game show can watch Bill O’Reilly interview the president come Super Bowl Sunday, the AP reports. Fox is showing this year’s big game; in keeping with tradition, Obama will sit down with the same network, notes a White House rep. The... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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John Edwards Engaged to Rielle Hunter: Enquirer
(Newser) - Call it an indecent proposal: Three weeks after his wife died, John Edwards reportedly asked Rielle Hunter to marry him. Okay, so it's the National Enquirer doing the reporting—but remember, the Enquirer also broke the story about Edwards’ affair with Hunter in the first place. (On the other hand,... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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GOP Pushes to Outlaw Presidential 'Czars'
(Newser) - House Republicans hope a new bill will drive out President Obama’s “czars,” the 39 paid advisers he’s hired throughout his term. The GOP has pushed similar bills in the past, but with Republican control of the House, this one stands a better chance of advancing, the... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Beck: It Was 'Cowardly' to Skip Slaves in Constitution Reading
(Newser) - Glenn Beck was not satisfied with Congress' constitutional read-along yesterday, because House leaders left out a couple of parts: namely, the three-fifths compromise, and the 18th Amendment, which declared prohibition. “They didn’t want to offend anybody ... which shows their cowardice for not reading it,” Beck fumed of... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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A video is currently creating a stir among the Ivorian online community. It shows militaries beating up prisoners - presented as Alassane Ouattara's partisans - in the Abidjan MACA prison. Since the beginning of the political crisis in Ivory Coast, dozens of people have been arrested in Ivory Coast for their political opinion and jailed at the infamous MACA prison.
Sarah Standish is a young American teacher and blogger with a mission. In addition to teaching Arabic to high school students in the US, the Arabic Lingua member hopes to bridge the gap between the East and West and create more understanding of the Arab way of life and thinking. Shams Ahmad interviews her in this post.
More than dozen veterans of Georgia's wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia began a hunger strike on December 27 demanding that the government address their social problems and restore their medical discounts. On 3 January, dozens of police officers broke up the strike just hours after protesters allege the presidential escort passed them by. Without proper warning, some veterans were arrested and excessive force was used. In particular, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) punched Eka Matiashvili, an opposition party activist who was there to lend her support to the protesters.
Friday, January 7, 2011
