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- Glenn Beck: Donald Trump’s making me ‘uncomfortable’
- Is U.S.-Mexico border secure enough?
- Here’s a food stamp graph to ruin your day
- GOP group crowdsources Obama administration info
- Will Bretton Woods shock U.S. economy?
- White House Says It Will Veto House Efforts to Scuttle Internet Fairness Rules
- Google Said to Be Possible Target of U.S. FTC Antitrust Probe
- Obama administration moving forward with government shutdown plans
- GOP freshman class faces its big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line
| Glenn Beck: Donald Trump’s making me ‘uncomfortable’ Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:14 AM PDT Fox News host Glenn Beck said Friday night that Donald Trump has been making him “a little uncomfortable recently” with some of the wilder claims he’s made about President Barack Obama. Beck, who himself has made some wild claims about Obama, was speaking on “The O’Reilly Factor” and critiquing the two-part interview Trump gave to the show earlier in the week, in which he declared that Obama “doesn’t have a birth certificate” and added he might not be showing one because it might say he’s a Muslim. “There is something reasonable to, you know, a reasonable conversation if you don’t believe that he has a birth certificate.” Beck said. “You can say, ‘I don’t believe he has a birth certificate.’ But then he goes into ‘I do not believe he has a birth certificate’ and then he releases one that’s worse than Obama’s. And then he comes back and he says on your program, ‘He might be a Muslim too.’ I’m like, come on!” To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52420.html |
| Is U.S.-Mexico border secure enough? Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT BY ELIZABETH AGUILERA, Signs on San Diego Along the U.S.-Mexico border, fortification has reached an all-time peak. The ranks of Border Patrol agents top 17,600. Nearly 650 miles of additional fencing is up. Four unmanned drones patrol from California to the Gulf of Mexico. Twelve hundred National Guard soldiers are on the ground. Camera systems numbering 467 sweep the perimeter and 10,800 ground sensors lie in wait. Given this unprecedented expansion in resources during the past decade, U.S. government officials said the southwest border is the tightest it has ever been. To read more, visit: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/02/us-mexico-border-secure-enough/ |
| Here’s a food stamp graph to ruin your day Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:08 AM PDT Primed by the financial meltdown; took off like a rocket in January 2009, and is now reaching for the stars. Over 44 million on the rolls (somewhere around 14.3% of the population), which is about 14 million or so more than when this administration took office. The graph is sufficiently grim and depressing on its own to make further commentary largely unnecessary, but I will add one sardonic comment. If current conditions are what the White House considers to be "our economic recovery," then let me be clear: You're Doing It Wrong. To read more, visit: http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/04/03/hi-heres-a-food-stamp-graph-that-will-ruin-your-day/ |
| GOP group crowdsources Obama administration info Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:04 AM PDT By Brian Montopoli, CBSNEWS Politics Crossroads GPS, the cash-rich Republican outside group planning to spend $120 million on the 2012 election in conjunction with its sister organization American Crossroads, announced Wednesday the launch of a website called www.Wikicountability.org “designed to crowd-source information gleaned from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other public documents by organizations, individuals and journalists.” The site is meant to “facilitate efficient sharing of public information about the Obama Administration” and highlight FOIA requests that have gone unfulfilled. It has been set up to look like Wikipedia. Among the documents uploaded so far is one showing that three Medicare advertisements featuring Andy Griffith cost the government $404,000 to produce and a total of $2.78 million to air. (This had been previously reported.) Others show meetings between two administration officials – Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Elizabeth Warren – and liberal journalists and union officials. (One of those journalists, David Corn, denies the meeting, and Crossroads did not immediately point him to the document on the site suggesting it took place.) To read more, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20046215-503544.html |
| Will Bretton Woods shock U.S. economy? Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT Long-term and worsening unemployment, economic stagnation, labor revolt and a state of siege. Those are just some of the descriptions of one country that received the kind of economic “shock therapy” crafted by Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, who sits on the board of an organization literally seeking to reorganize the entire global economic system. That group is the Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET. Philanthropist George Soros is INET’s founding sponsor, with the billionaire having provided a reported $25 million over five years to support INET activities. This Friday, INET starts its four-day economic symposium in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H. The gathering of economic giants will take place at Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. That conference’s goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. The April gathering has a similar goal in mind – a global economic restructuring. To read more, visit: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=283297 |
| White House Says It Will Veto House Efforts to Scuttle Internet Fairness Rules Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT By Josh Smith, NationalJournal The White House threatened on Monday to veto any bill from Congress that would scuttle new rules aimed at keeping internet access free and open. “If the president is presented with a resolution of disapproval that would not safeguard the free and open Internet, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the resolution,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a Statement of Administration Policy. The House Rules Committee voted on Monday evening to send the resolution to the House floor. The resolution would repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called "network-neutrality" regulations, designed to prevent Internet carriers from blocking websites that use too much bandwidth. The committee voted to allow one hour of debate on the issue. House aides say a vote is expected on Tuesday but the resolution is not expected to make it past the Senate. To read more, visit: http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/white-house-says-it-will-veto-house-efforts-to-scuttle-internet-fairness-rules-20110404 |
| Google Said to Be Possible Target of U.S. FTC Antitrust Probe Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:33 AM PDT By Jeff Bliss and Sara Forden, Bloomberg The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a broad antitrust investigation into Google Inc. (GOOG)'s dominance of the Internet-search industry, two people familiar with the matter said. Before proceeding with any probe, the FTC is awaiting a decision by the Justice Department on whether it will challenge Google's planned acquisition of ITA Software Inc. as a threat to competition in the travel-information search business, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is still confidential. An FTC investigation of Google, the world's most popular search engine, "could be on par" with the scope of the Justice Department's probe of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) a decade ago, said Keith Hylton, an antitrust law professor at Boston University School of Law. Google "could fight the FTC, but that's going to cost a lot of money and time." The FTC and Justice Department share responsibility for oversight of antitrust enforcement, and the outcome of the ITA deal may determine whether the two agencies will vie for control of a broader probe of Google, the people said. The two agencies sometimes negotiate which will handle major antitrust investigations, with the decision turning on their respective expertise. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-05/google-said-to-be-possible-target-of-antitrust-probe-after-ita-acquisition.html |
| Obama administration moving forward with government shutdown plans Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:29 AM PDT By Ed O’Keefe, The Washington Post The process of shutting down the federal government is underway. With the clock ticking towards Friday's federal budget deadline and President Obama hosting congressional leaders for budget talks at the White House on Tuesday, top administration officials have instructed agency officials to begin sharing details of shutdown contingency plans with top managers. This marks the next step toward both curtailing government operations if a budget impasse occurs and informing federal workers whether they are considered "essential" personnel who would stay on the job despite a shutdown. Though Obama and congressional leaders remain committed to avoiding a shutdown, "given the realities of the calendar, good management requires that we continue contingency planning for an orderly shutdown should the negotiations not be completed by" Friday at midnight, Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jeffrey Zients said in a memo. The message was sent to the government's deputy secretaries and chiefs of staff, who handle day-to-day management issues for agencies and departments. OMB confirmed the authenticity of the memo, which was obtained from a senior government official who provided it on condition of anonymity. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/obama-administration-moving-forward-with-government-shutdown-plans/2011/04/04/AFodFdfC_blog.html |
| GOP freshman class faces its big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line Posted: 04 Apr 2011 08:55 AM PDT Each of the 87 House Republican freshmen faces the same choice heading into the climactic week of the 2011 budget battle — to fight or fall in line. The freshman class, vaunted for its unprecedented size and its Tea-Party ties, has been caught between party leadership nudging it toward compromise on one end and anti-spending activists clamoring for a clash on the other. In the coming days, fresh GOP faces will have to decide whether or not to support spending cuts likely to be a far cry from what they had demanded. Six weeks later, the stalemate goes on, delivering a sobering reality check to the increasingly frustrated insurgents. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153511-gop-freshman-class-faces-its-big-shutdown-decision |
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