Catherine Philp in Washington Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign [...]
By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-12 16:31 A sign reading “Welcome to Obamaville Colorado’s Fastest Growing Community” appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this week. You probably didn’t hear about it because outside of two Colorado television stations nobody found this newsworthy. By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent [...]
By Amanda Carpenter on Dec. 9, 2009 Chalk up another 500 jobs to the list of jobs President Obama will need to create or save. A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 2:36 PM BOISE, Idaho — It’s become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare. This year, the scene straight out of the movie “A Christmas Story” unfolded Tuesday morning in Boise with a boy of about [...]
by Publius. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding the report commissioned by ACORN released by Scott Harshbarger report on ACORN: “How surprising is it that a report paid for by ACORN exonerates them? There are numerous federal and state investigations currently underway that [...]
By Andrew Gilligan | Published: 10:55PM GMT 05 Dec 2009 On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. “We thought they were not going to [...]
Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:51 AM President Barack Obama’s national security adviser says the door remains open for Iran to work with other countries on its nuclear program. But James Jones also says the “picture is not a good one.” Jones says the clock is ticking toward the end of the year. That’s when Obama [...]
December 4, 2009 No, it wouldn’t do anything for the environment. But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore et al two years ago for the environmental movie “An [...]
DALLAS (AP) – The leader of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense says the U.S. Justice Department was right to drop a voter intimidation suit against his group because the case was weak. New Black Panther Party National Chairman Malik Shabazz says recent attempts to question that ruling are nothing more than a “political [...]
By Roy Beck, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:20 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can’t figure it out. So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama’s jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans [...]