Gates and Crowley to Meet With President at “Beer Summit”
President Obama has planned tomorrow as the day he, Harvard Afro-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department sit down to work...
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Defense Officials Worry About H1N1 Outbreak This Fall
Defense Department officials, in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are considering a proposal whose stated purpose is to assist civilian authorities in the event of a...
Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Confirm Sotomayor
Earlier today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13 to 6 to confirm federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She would be the first Hispanic...
Obama, Gates, Crowley Likely to Meet
President Obama is likely to meet at the White House with black scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Gates at his house...
Lindsey Graham Supports Sotomayor
On Wednesday, July 22, South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham offered his support for the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who could become the nation’s first...
Obama Remarks on Gates Arrest Offend Many in Law Enforcement
President Barack Obama expressed some contriteness in an impromptu appearance at a White House briefing earlier today for contending that Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” when they arrested a...
Sotomayor Vote Delayed, Although Confirmation Is Expected
The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed its vote on the confirmation of President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. ...
Ricci Testimony Highlighted Last Day of Sotomayor Hearings
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday rang down the curtains on Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings at the end of four days of intense questioning and some testimony. The final...
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Enter Day Three
As we entered day three of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, what should we have expected? Predictability, for sure. Yesterday Sotomayor labored to parry allegations that her “wise Latina” remark...
The Sotomayor Hearings—Day One to Day Two
The first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings made two things clear. First, her chances of being confirmed are better than 50-50. Second, she is in...
‘Jane Roe’ Arrested At Sotomayor Hearings
As Sonia Sotomayor faces tough questions about her stance on the volatile abortion issue, pro-life protesters have made their presence known. Earlier today, Norma McCorvey, the former 'Jane Roe,'...
China: Apple iPhones But No Wi-Fi
Apple Corp., supplier of Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones, has been carrying on a war of words with the Chinese government — emblematic of what happens when a product of free enterprise...
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Begin
Today Sonia Sotomayor begins what will likely be a tough confirmation process. The Senate Judiciary Committee will decide this week whether Sotomayor will become the 111th person to have...
Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?
Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a cyber attack. ...
EPA clears California’s new vehicular limits on greenhouse-gas emissions
Where California leads, some say, the rest of the country follows. Whether that is good news remains to be seen. Hailed by environmental groups as a breakthrough reversal of...
The White House and Media Control
President Barack Obama entered office with a promise of increased transparency, especially regarding the media. However, veteran reporter Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com last Wednesday that Obama is attempting to...
Tea Parties Across America on Independence Day
Doubtless I am not the only person who awoke on July 4 — Independence Day — wondering what we are independent from and if, from lack of vigilance, we...
Bilderbergs Hold Annual Meeting in Greece
The highly secretive Bilderberg Group held its 2009 annual meeting from May 14 to 17 at a luxury resort in Athens, Greece. As always, there was very little publicity...