GOP Oklahoma senator opposes federal aid unless 'offset' by budget cuts
Posted by:
Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 02:51:14 -0700 | political-news
According to the Washington Post, House Speaker John Boehner refused to take a stand today on the issue of offsetting disaster aid to Oklahoma with cuts in other areas of the budget. Those other areas? Student aid, food stamps, unemployment...
The US has become a complete surveillance state
Posted by: northsunm32
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 18:59:08 -0700 | technology-news
The US government, as part the "war on terror," has erected an expensive and extensive surveillance empire, that monitors not just AP reporters but everyone's communications throughout the US and no doubt far beyond. In 2010 the Washington Post documented...
Obamacare Facebook page inactive since November
Posted by: Punditty
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 00:41:12 -0700 | political-news
Despite widespread criticism that President Barack Obama’s administration is not doing enough to inform citizens about compliance with the Obamacare mandate to purchase health insurance, the Facebook page I Like Obamacare has been inactive since November. The page is maintained...
Republicans are good at scandals, bad at governing
Posted by: itobin53
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 19:10:51 -0700 | political-news
Republicans could not be happier about the trio of scandals rocking the Obama administration, and they are doing their best to keep the fires burning. If they put as much effort into actual governing, America might be a better place....
LAMBRO: From bureaucratic snafu to explosive cover-up
Source: The Washington Times
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:01:59 -0700 | political-news
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. This ancient admonition, commonly attributed to William Shakespeare but actually the work of Sir Walter Scott, now applies to how Barack Obama's White House has been in...
Has anyone been ‘fired' because of the Benghazi attacks?
Source: Washington Post
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:25:00 -0700 | political-news
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on CNN's State of the Union, May 19, 2013 Paul's comment this week jumped out at us because we remember the headlines back in December: 4 Are Out at State Dept. After Scathing Report on Benghazi...
NBA playoff schedule and scores
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:19:58 -0700 | sports-news
30 p.m. (if necessary) June 1: Miami at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. (if necessary) June 3: Indiana at Miami, 8:30 p.m. (if necessary) -- -- Western Conference final (2) San Antonio vs. (5) Memphis (San Antonio leads series 2-0) May 19:...
More to U.S. oil than North Dakota, EIA says
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 05:08:37 -0700 | business-news
Oil production from five Western U.S. states increased as much as 64 percent since 2010 in part because of new drilling methods, the Energy Department said...Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reported in its monthly petroleum supply report that onshore oil...
U.S. senators hear mixed assessment of shale
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 05:08:33 -0700 | business-news
Maintaining a flat level of natural gas production from U.S. shale deposits is an elusive prospect, an energy policy director told U.S. lawmakers. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony on the prospects foreseen in the U.S. natural...
DONNELLY: The generals flunk the birds 'n' bees test
Source: The Washington Times
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 04:01:56 -0700 | political-news
The latest report by the Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office documents the dysfunctional consequences of social experiments with human sexuality in our military over many years. What's worse, the department's plans will extend problems of sexual assault...
Obama threatens Keystone XL veto
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:48:14 -0700 | business-news
President Barack Obama would veto a House measure that would fast-track the approval of the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, the White House said. The House of Representatives passed the so-called Northern Route Approval Act that would put the approval...
Oil spilled in Canadian train derailment
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:48:15 -0700 | travel-news
Two rails cars that were included in a derailment in Saskatchewan lost their entire oil cargoes, a provincial official said. Five cars derailed near Jansen, Saskatchewan, and two of them released 545 barrels of oil. That's the third spill for...
Body in Scottish woods identified as young man missing since 1999
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 21:50:05 -0700 | political-news
Skeletal remains found by a dog walker in a Scottish woodland have been identified as a 19-year-old man who vanished in 1999, police said Tuesday. Investigators do not believe Colin Law of Gordon in southeast Scotland was the victim of...
White House Memo: A Sleeper Scandal Awakens, Post-Election
Source: The New York Times
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 21:38:57 -0700 | political-news
But a year ago, when the current Internal Revenue Service scandal that has swirled around Mr. Obama first emerged, Washington and, apparently, the White House shrugged. It was March 2012 and Tea Party groups around the country had been complaining...
Senate committee approves measure calling Obama arming Syrian rebels
Posted by: rsa76
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 23:53:46 -0700 | disasters-news
The Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate today approved by a large majority a measure that calls on President Barack Obama to provide arms to opposition groups in Syria. The measure, introduced by the chairman of that committee, Sen....
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