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Chicago Tribune Tells Obama: Do Not Run!
"I do wish that Obama would gracefully bow out and not run for re-election. Or … he could just quit. Personally, I think he should be impeached for treason"
-Patriot Warrior
400 Pound Robber Freed Because Of Weight Issues
A 400-pound convicted robber has been released from prison because a police lineup did not contain any obese people.
-Planet1051
Australian Navy Spends 700 Million On Torpedo And Can't Read Technical Documentation
This is a great lesson for those of us working in international trade. First of all, it turns out that contracts are important! So important in fact, that you should be sure to include clauses about how knowledge will be transferred.
-TranslationWire
Texas 'stripper tax' is constitutional, high court rules
"The fee is not a tax on unpopular speech but a restriction on combining nude dancing, which unquestionably has secondary effects, with the aggravating influence of alcohol consumption," Justice Nathan Hecht wrote.
-SETexasRecord
Judge Rebukes Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh For Missing Child Support Hearing
Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who relishes lecturing President Obama and Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $117,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children.
-Think Progress
Obama's a flop in states he flipped in 2008
"The president is focused on the things he needs to do as president — getting the economy going,"
-Washington Times
China may face greater terror threat than US
The 9/11 attacks created a new channel for China-U.S. cooperation, but counter-terrorism has never become the theme of China-U.S. relations.
-People Daily
Murder suspect summoned for jury pool
A man charged with murder got an unexpected note in the mail -- a jury duty summons for his own trial in Schenectady County Court.
-Times Union
Feinstein Claims Treasurer Looted Campaign Account as Fraud Case Deepens
Durkee had authority over more than 400 bank accounts, including political campaigns, according to the federal complaint filed earlier this month.
-Fox News
Houston hand surgeon on trial in assault case
Prosecutors this morning said Brown, 54, threw two heavy vases and a humanitarian award at his wife in a the fight that ended with Brown being "taken down" by his body guard after twisting his wife's arm behind her back, Houston Chronicle reporter Brian Rogers wrote.
-Chron
White House pressed on $500 million loan to solar company now under investigation
"We have ended up with a situation of having to do rushed approvals on a couple of occasions (and we are worried about Solyndra at the end of the week)," one official wrote. That Aug. 31, 2009, message, written by a senior OMB staffer and sent to Terrell P. McSweeny, Biden's domestic policy adviser, concluded, "We would prefer to have sufficient time to do our due diligence reviews."
-Washington Post
U.S. Muslims feel they are the victims
Further, 93 percent of Muslims see Muslim Americans as loyal to their country, but they also believe they often are the victims of "intolerance" even while they are "among the most tolerant of U.S. faith groups studied."
-World Net Daily
Senate Approves $500 Billion Increase in Borrowing Authority
The next increase in the borrowing limit, likely in the first quarter of next year, will be dependent on the ability of a panel of 12 lawmakers to reach a deal that cuts at least $1.2 trillion from federal budget deficits over the next decade.
-Wall Street Journal
Officials investigate missing ammo at Fort Bragg
Officials at Fort Bragg say an investigation is under way into the disappearance of nearly 14,000 rounds of ammunition at the Army base.
-Yahoo
PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe
Such a gaffe would have brought huge amounts of ridicule and derision on George W. Bush, but in the case of Obama the media yawned. Actually, they did more than yawn; government-funded PBS has altered the transcript of the President's speech, removing the offending comment.
-American Thinker
3 big myths about the U.S. debt crisis
Some claim that if you just cut spending, all the U.S.'s debt problems will be solved. But at least in the short run, it's as much a revenue problem as it is a spending problem.
-MarketWatch
How Obama's jobs speech claims compare with facts
Essentially, the jobs plan is an IOU from a president and lawmakers who may not even be in office come 2013 and beyond when bills start coming due.
-Detroit Free Press
The Death Star: A Pentagon Purchasing Nightmare
Maybe the Defense Department could learn something from this before it finds an X-wing crammed up its thermal-exhaust port.
-Wired
Real truth behind con over energy-saving bulbs
Some emit enough radiation for people who are constantly close up to them to have a significant increase in ultraviolet exposure over the years, which may well make skin cancer more likely.
-Express UK
Is Social Security a "Ponzi Scheme"?
In the November 13, 1967 Newsweek Samuelson defended Social Security by pointing out that it was linked to population growth and that "A growing nation is the greatest Ponzi scheme ever devised. And that is a fact, not a paradox."
-Jonathon Last
Obama to propose $300 billion jobs package: reports
"I have no doubt the president will propose many things on Thursday that, when looked at individually, sound pretty good, or that he'll call them all bipartisan. I'm equally certain that, taken as whole, they'll represent more of the same failed approach,"
-Reuters
More restaurants are targeting customers who use food stamps
"There is big money at stake. USDA records show food stamp benefits swelled from $28.5 billion to $64.7billion in that period."
-USA Today
Robert Redford disappointed in Obama
"Like so many others, I'm beginning to wonder just where the man stands."
-Politico
What Democrats can do about Obama
George W. Bush's approval rating didn't drop this low until Katrina hit. And on the economy, 71 percent of Americans disapprove of how Obama is doing his job.
-Salon
Nancy Pelosi Has Figured Out the Evil Rich At Last
The elaborate schemes of the Evil Rich and their Republican lapdogs involves an insidious plan to enslave the lower class by opposing the minimum wage, which keeps them so impoverished that they must use credit cards to buy food.
-Human Events
Is this the best political ad of 2012?
Roger Williams is a Republican running to fill Texas' newly created 33rd Congressional Seat, but his latest ad is getting him some national attention. Meet the "donkey whisperer":
-TheBlaze
Obama to Supporters: Demand Congress Pass My Unrevealed Plan Now!
In his latest e-mail to supporters (or at least those who have provided their e-mail address to BarackObama.com), the president says that he is "frustrated" that Congress has not "focused on what it needs to focus on" — his as-yet unrevealed plan to "put Americans back to work."
-National Review
Maxine Waters calls for $1 trillion jobs program
"I'm talking about a program of $1 trillion or more. We've got to put Americans to work. That's the only way to revitalize this economy. When people work and they earn money, they spend that money, and that is what gets the economy up and going."
-UPI
They built a south metro busway but now can't pay for buses
A $112 million rapid busway on Cedar Avenue in the southern suburbs, nearly a decade in the making, suddenly doesn't have the money to pay for bus service once it opens.
-StarTribune
Rick Perry and the Satanic Statue of Liberty
Listen folks that is an idol, a demonic idol, right there in New York harbor. People say, 'well no it's patriotic.' What makes it patriotic? Why is it? It's a statue of a false goddess, the Queen of Heaven.
-BigThink
Columnist: Registering Poor To Vote 'Like Handing Out Burglary Tools To Criminals'
"It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote,"
-TPM
Obama Labor Boss Buys Canadian-Built Car
"What better example could I set if I encouraged my staff to go and purchase and seek how we could acquire a vehicle that would for me would send a signal that we're for supporting our American workers, American-made products, fuel efficient as well,"
-US News
For Sale: 200 Sq. Feet, 0 BRs, No View: $125k
"My apartment is probably not quite worth what it was," Ms. Sarkisian says. "I think it's going to retain its value pretty well, but not as well as my parking spot. I'm a parking profiteer."
-Yahoo
U.S. Wasted at Least $31 Billion in War Contracts
The commission confirmed $31 billion in contractor cash lost to corruption or dysfunction. But it warned that the true figure could be as high as $60 billion, or "$12 million every day for the past 10 years."
-Wired
82% of Obama Voters Will Vote To Reelect Him If He Raises Taxes On The Rich
It is clear what Obama voters want. They want entitlements left alone, and they want a big jobs plan that doesn't compromise with the GOP. It looks like his voters are willing to stick by him as long as he goes big, and leaves entitlements out of the discussion.
-Politics USA
With budget surpluses, it's Md. vs. Va.
McDonnell spokesman Martin Tucker responded in an e-mail, saying, "Well, on this side of the Potomac, we are ecstatic for our friends in Maryland. Hopefully, this will spare them from Governor O'Malley's potential plans for another major tax increase,"
-Washington Post
Global economy in 'dangerous new phase': IMF chief
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde warned on Saturday that downside risks to the global economy are rising, and developments this summer have indicated that the global economy is in a "dangerous new phase".
-China Daily
How will FEMA pay for Hurricane Irene?
With less than $1 billion currently available for federal disaster assistance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is temporarily suspending payments to rebuild roads, schools and other structures destroyed during spring tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. and southern states in order to pay for damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
-Washington Post
Empty Ocean City 'dodges a bullet'
Todd Ferrante, an Ocean City business owner and resident, was surveying the storm's damage Sunday morning at about 8 a.m. from the boardwalk, which had some small piles of sand caked to it.
-Baltimore Sun
American town halls more contentious than ever, in part by design
This is the pitiful state of the American town hall meeting: Even the people who invented it can’t make it work anymore.
-Washington Post
Hurricane Irene to Cause One of Largest Power Outages?
As U.S. East Coast residents snap up generators, batteries, and flashlights, experts are saying that Hurricane Irene could plunge much of the coast into one of the largest power outages ever caused by a storm, experts say.
-National Geographic News
Michigan employees win case over health care cash
Michigan lawmakers acted illegally when they agreed to take 3 percent from the pay of government employees and earmark it for retirees' health care, the state appeals court said Friday.
-The Detroit News
New York MTA to Shutdown Saturday
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority will institute a system-wide shut-down when trains and buses begin their final runs starting at about noon on Saturday due to Hurricane Irene
-Bloomberg
Judge rules Wayne County's 20 percent pay cut illegal
Detroit— A judge ruled Thursday that Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano's imposed 20 percent pay cut on employees is illegal.
-The Detroit News
Biden Leaves Asia Offering a No-Apology Message to U.S. Audience
With just two hours left in his trip to Asia, Vice President Joe Biden wanted to make something clear to the audience back home. “I didn’t come to explain a damn thing,” he told U.S. military personnel on Aug. 24 at Yokota Air Base in Japan, where he spent his final days in Asia after four days in China and a stop in Mongolia.
-Bloomberg
Millions of US court records bound for shredder
Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs — and raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files.
-NewsOK.com
25 Best places for job growth
Especially now, plentiful job opportunities are key to making a great place to live. These 25 counties have experienced the most job growth over the last 10 years.
-CNNMoney
17 injured in N.J. Turnpike bus crash; 3 critically
Emergency responders carried men on stretchers through the front of a windowless bus, slings were put on arms, bandages were applied to bloodied legs and helicopters hovered above it all.
-New Jersey On-Line
Region tallies earthquake damage, mostly uninsured
Structural engineering teams fanned out across the Washington region Wednesday, assessing millions of dollars of damage caused by a forceful earthquake that left potentially dangerous cracks in some landmarks, federal buildings, schools, churches and homes.
-Washington Post
Aftershock: 4.5 magnitude earthquake felt overnight in Baltimore
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake – an apparent aftershock to Tuesday’s 5.8 quake that shook Baltimore – was recorded at 1:08 a.m., near Mineral, Va., the U.S. Geological Survey is reporting.
-The Baltimore Sun
Contours of Obama jobs package coming into focus
President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to refurbish school buildings nationwide and tax breaks to encourage firms to hire workers.
-Reuters
Earthquake shows difficulty of evacuation from DC
The nation's capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detention centers at train stations.
-New Jersey On-Line
Inspection reveals several more cracks at top of Washington Monument following earthquake
The National Park Service says engineers have discovered several additional cracks in the top portion of the Washington Monument.
-The Washington Post
The Fed gave banks $1.2 trillion
The Federal Reserved reached into public funds — about $1.2 trillion — to help bail out banks during the 2008 financial crisis, a new report reveals.
-The European Union Times
All US Mint Numismatic Gold Coins Suspended
This morning the US Mint has suspended sales of all remaining numismatic gold coin offerings. The move comes as the market price of gold has jump another $35 to nearly $1,890 per ounce. Prior to the suspension, products were priced based on an average gold price in the $1,750 to $1,799.99 range.
-US Mint News Blog
Miss. 19-year-old could face death in hit-run killing
Members of an Atlanta human rights group gathered on Sunday to decry the allegedly racially motivated June 26 hit-and-run death of a black man by a white teen that has captured national attention.
-INDYSTAR.COM
United States Says No To 2020 Olympic Bid
American fans of the Olympics will have to travel abroad for at least another decade if they want to cheer from the stands at one of the world's biggest sporting events. The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today that there will be no American bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
-NPR
Waters talks tough on tea party
Rep. Maxine Waters has four words for the tea party: Go straight to hell.
-Washington Post
A new test for bilateral ties
China and U.S. can break traditional cycle of conflict between two powers if they establish a partnership on mutual respect.
-English.xinhuanet.com
More Western towns adopt 'toilet to tap' strategy to water conservation
This summer, Texas' drought of the century is an uncomfortable reminder that often there just isn't enough water to go around. But the 40 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures and minuscule rainfall may also be boosting the case for a new freshwater source being developed in Big Spring, Texas, and surrounding cities.
-The Christian Science Monitor
Investigation reveals widespread insider hacking at immigration agency
TA yearlong probe into computer fraud at an immigration application processing center uncovered multiple incidents of internal hacking where staff accessed management-level emails and other confidential files, according to Homeland Security Department interviews, network analyses and internal emails obtained by Nextgov.
-Nextgov
U.S. Scrambling to Ease Shortage of Vital Medicine
Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of life-threatening illnesses, including bacterial infection and several forms of cancer.
-New York Times
Obama to Congress: Work together to aid jobless
President Barack Obama says members of Congress should put country before politics, set aside their differences and find ways to get people back to work.
-SignOn San Diego
'Jihadists' consider new targets for terror attacks: U.S. military funeral
Armchair jihadists have brainstormed another sick way to strike America: bomb the funerals of U.S. service members killed in action.
-NYDailyNews.com
Florida cracks down on troubled ALFs
After years of rampant abuse in some Florida assisted living facilities, state agents have launched a major crackdown by banning new residents from troubled homes and slashing state funds to the worst abusers — including one that forced frail residents to sleep on box springs covered with cardboard and shower with contaminated well water.
-The Miami Herald
U.S. Postal Service unveils new stamps, letter-writing campaign
The U.S. Postal Service invites you take a moment and send a handwritten note to a friend, loved one, co-worker, dog sitter or whomever else comes to mind. Then, it would like you to stamp that letter -- ideally using one of the new series of Disney/Pixar-themed stamps unveiled this afternoon -- and drop it into your nearest mailbox.
-Los Angeles Times
After a two-year rebound, recession risks rise
The U.S. economy has officially been out of recession for two years, but fear of falling back into the abyss has dogged the recovery every step of the way. Now, the prospect of recession no longer is a fringe view.
-Los Angeles Times
White House Faces Political Dilemma on Health Law Challenge
The Obama administration now faces a key legal and political dilemma -- what to do about the recent decision from a federal appeals court that said the new law's mandate that every uninsured American must buy health insurance is unconstitutional.
-FOX News
Interior department to hold big gulf oil lease sale
The Obama administration announced Friday that it will hold its first oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
-Los Angeles Times
Pentagon prepares for economic warfare
The guests were assembled in the Warfare Analysis Laboratory, surrounded by uniformed officers from the highest levels of the Pentagon and a dizzying array of screens normally used to simulate nuclear world war.
-The AUSTRALIAN
In China, Biden pulls punches, not punch lines
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in China on a five-day charm mission, has worked hard with his hosts to inject a little amity into the sometimes fractious relationship, pulling punches but not his punch lines.
-The Baltimore Sun
State phasing out vehicle-emission testing
A car's computers can tell you everything, such as how tightly your gas cap is fitting, what your fuel efficiency is and even what your wheel speed is to control the brakes.
-Seattle Times
State House's historic dome reveals secrets during restoration
It's brilliant and blustery atop the tallest building in Annapolis, a bank of white clouds scudding quickly across the sky. John Greenwalt Lee leans against a temporary railing, gazing down with fondness on the town he calls home.
-The Baltimore Sun
9/11 memorial riders snaking their way to Pentagon
Like a roaring snake a dozen miles long, a caravan of almost 2,000 motorcycles crossed into Maryland at mid-morning Friday, cutting south toward Virginia bound for the Pentagon on a path expected to snarl traffic through much of the region.
-Washington Post
Belarus Scraps U.S. Nuclear Deal
MOSCOW—Belarus said Friday it suspended an agreement with the U.S. to get rid of its highly enriched uranium stockpile after Washington imposed new economic sanctions on the former Soviet republic.
-The AUSTRALIAN
Biden Meets China’s Future Leader Xi Jinping
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stressed the importance of the U.S. relations with China yesterday during a meeting in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as Xi emphasized the two governments’ common interests.
-Bloomberg
U.S. undertaking case-by-case review on deportation
The Obama administration said Thursday it will indefinitely delay deporting many illegal immigrants who don't have criminal records and will offer them a chance to apply for a work permit. The government will focus on sending back convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat.
-azcentral.com
White House Asks Agencies for 5% Budget Cuts
White House Budget Director Jack Lew told government agencies to submit budgets with cuts of at least 5 percent and offer additional options to save at least 10 percent as policy makers look to reduce federal spending.
-Bloomberg
Wisconsin lost 12,500 private-sector jobs in July
Wisconsin lost 12,500 private-sector jobs last month, effectively annulling nearly all of the previous month's gains, according to the latest data from the state Department of Workforce Development.The administration of Gov. Scott Walker attributed the weakness in Wisconsin to the national and international economy.
-JSOnline
America can’t afford complacency on China
In China, as we learned last month, there are Apple Stores and then there are “Apple Stores.” Both sell Apple computers, iPads, cable adaptors, etc. But while Apple’s official beachhead store in Shanghai Pudong attracts mega-sized crowds, about 900 miles west of Shanghai in the city of Chongqing, some entrepreneurial types brazenly knocked off the Apple store concept. Enter one of these stores and you’d find the familiar t-shirt clad friendly geek, the clean (though not as minimalist) Apple aesthetic, and a full stock of real-deal Apple computers. Employees in the store actually believed they were working for Apple and Steve Jobs until press accounts of the knock-off began appearing last month.
-Reuters
Special Interests Are Big Backers of Deficit 'Super Committee' Members
Let the gridlock begin where it always does, with political donations. The bipartisan "super committee" created under the debt ceiling deal that is supposed to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings by the end of November got $64.6 million from special interests groups over the past decade, according to a new analysis by MapLight, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks the nexus of money and politics.
-FOX News
Untested body armour 'risks US troops'
The Pentagon focused on seven Army contracts for the plates, known as ballistic inserts, awarded between 2004 and 2006 and totaling $2.5 billion. Over a two-year period, ending in March of this year, the inspector general found that the tests were incomplete, conducted with the wrong size plates or relied on ballistic test rounds that were inconsistent. Due to the demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tests under certain temperatures and altitudes were scrapped altogether.
-The Australian
Rick Perry, the ‘no apologies’ candidate
Twelve hours removed from a controversy about his suggestion that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was engaging in “treasonous” behavior Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign didn’t try to walk back the remark. In fact, they doubled down on it.
-Washington Post
Biden heads to China under debt cloud
Vice President Joe Biden headed Tuesday to China under the cloud of criticism over the US debt as he seeks to build a rapport with the rising Asian power's enigmatic next leader.
-Yahoo News
Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development
As California attempts to divorce itself from fossil-fueled electricity, it may be trading one environmental sin for another -- although you don't hear state officials admitting it.
-FOX News
Obama Agriculture Secretary: Food Stamps Create Jobs
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack repeated the White House claim that food stamps and other forms of government welfare are stimulus programs in disguise, stating that when government gives out money, it is creating jobs.
-CNSNEWS.com
Colorado and Massachusetts towns best in U.S.: poll
Towns in Colorado, Massachusetts and Ohio, which have low crime rates, good schools and plenty of cultural activities, have been ranked the best in the United States, according to a new survey.
-Yahoo News
Radical overhaul of military retirement eyed
WASHINGTON - The military retirement system has long been considered untouchable - along with Social Security and Medicare. But in these days of soaring deficits, it seems everything is a potential target for budget cutters. A Pentagon-sponsored study says military pensions are no longer untouchable - they're unaffordable.
-CBS News
Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
Barely two years after the financial crisis ended, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke were back at it about a week ago. They were working the weekend phones with their counterparts in Europe, urging them to use overwhelming force to contain the continent’s spreading debt crisis, which was unnerving markets on both sides of the Atlantic.
-The Washington Post
NAACP vows to challenge N.J. State Police over low black representation in new recruit class
When the New Jersey State Police’s first class of recruits in two years reports for training today, only five of 123 will be black, a striking failure in the division’s decade-long effort to achieve greater diversity.
-nj.com
Pakistan Offers China Glimpse of Downed U.S. "Stealth" Helicopter
The daring raid that killed Osama Bin Laden unfortunately left behind part of a next-generation, modified Black Hawk "stealth" helicopter. It seems that Chinese engineers -- with the permission of Pakistan cites recent media reports -- collected images and other possible footage of the wreckage.
-DailyTech
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