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House Republicans call emergency meeting to defund NPR
The House Rules Committee will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider legislation to permanently prohibit federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) after conservative activist James O’Keefe released a video smearing the news organization. The bill, H.R. 1076, was introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who is leading the…
Oregon Dem attacks Obama for State Dept. spokesman’s firing
A Democratic congressman is calling out President Barack Obama over the firing of the State Department’s top spokesman. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) called the forced resignation of P.J. Crowley “outrageous” and demanded Obama “fix” the situation. “Outrageous -PJ Crowley leaving State Department for saying the truth about treatment of Bradley…
House approves stop-gap measure funding gov’t for three weeks
WASHINGTON – By a margin of 271-158, the House voted Tuesday to pass yet another stop-gap resolution that cuts $6 billion in spending and funds the government for an additional three weeks. The bill now moves to the Senate. Funding expires Friday as the House and Senate failed to agree…
Poll: Majority support tax hikes along with spending cuts to slash deficit
Buried in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll is an interesting revelation: A large majority of Americans believe tax hikes should accompany spending cuts to slash the federal deficit. Sixty-four percent of respondents said that deficit-cutting should comprise a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, while only 31 percent…
AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
Telecommunications giant AT&T said this week that it will join Comcast and other providers in a controversial business model that limits the amount of information subscribers can access, and imposes penalties for overages. The move will see AT&T broadband users forced into a tiered Internet that would limit accounts to…
Poll: Support for Afghan war hits record low
As the war in Afghanistan approaches it’s eleventh year, nearly two-thirds of Americans are saying the conflict is not worth fighting, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. The survey (.pdf) found that a record 64 percent do not support the war. Only 31 percent thought the war was…
Rumsfeld memo dated June 2001 hinted that US troops were in danger
On June 18, 2001, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sent out a brief memo quoting a former US Lt. General warning his troops that they may be in harms way. Rumsfeld’s memo, titled “Chesty Puller” — the nickname of Lt. Gen. Lewis Puller, a veteran of World War II and…
House to vote on stop-gap bill avoiding gov’t shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives is likely to pass yet another in a series of stopgap spending bills on Tuesday to keep the government running, as both Republicans and Democrats try to move on to address longer-term fiscal problems. “We hope this will be the last time we…
St. Paul hosts ‘World’s Worst Irish Tenor’ contest for 47th year
The restaurant Mancini’s in St. Paul played host last weekend to the “World’s Worst Irish Tenor” contest, celebrating 47 years of really terrible singing. One woman described the performances as so bad that “our eyes water.” Ouch. Watch the video, which first appeared at the Star Tribune on March 14,…
US Marine Corps buying 80 F-35C fighter jets
WASHINGTON – The US Marine Corps is buying 80 F-35C joint strike fighter planes, the Pentagon said, casting doubt on plans to buy a vertical-landing version still under development. A short take-off, vertical landing model the F-35B destined for the Navy has run into “considerable” development difficulties and has been…
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