A man was arrested on Thursday after bullets were fired from an assault rifle at the White House, cracking a window in the first family’s living quarters. The US secret service said Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had been arrested in Pennsylvania after a four-day search. The 21-year-old, from Idaho, was captured at a hotel after a [...]
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November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
Obama tells Asia US ‘here to stay’ as a Pacific power
President Barack Obama has vowed to expand US influence in the Asia-Pacific region and “project power and deter threats to peace” there, even as he reduces defence spending and winds down two wars. “The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,” he declared in a speech to the Australian parliament, [...]
November 16, 2011
Herman Cain stumbles badly on Libya question
November 15, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Herman Cain stumbles badly on Libya question –Cain said he has ‘all this stuff twirling around in my head.’ [Yup, lots of empty space in his head to accommodate the real estate required for all that 'stuff to twirl around.'] 14 Nov 2011 Herman Cain struggled to explain his [...]
November 15, 2011
Obama Expresses ‘Disappointment’ on French Palestinian Vote
U.S. President Barack Obama says he used a private meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this month to express “significant disappointment” with a French vote in favor of Palestinians joining the U.N. cultural heritage agency, UNESCO. Obama’s private November 3 meeting with Sarkozy ahead of a Group of 20 summit in the French city [...]
November 13, 2011
November 12, 2011
Rick Perry! No, really, Rick Perry! | Ana Marie Cox
Saturday’s debate, intended to focus on foreign policy, seems unlikely to be the launching ground for a Rick Perry comeback … but I think it could be. For one thing, his Wednesday gaffe sets the bar so ridiculously low that all he needs to do is speak in complete sentences and many voters will be [...]
November 10, 2011
Keystone XL pipeline: US government set to pursue new oil sands route
The Obama administration was preparing to bow to public pressure on Thursday and look into a new route for a pipeline that would pump tar sands crude oil across the American heartland. The announcement on the Keystone XL pipeline, expected soon, follows emotional scenes in Nebraska this week from landowners desperate to stop the project. [...]
November 10, 2011
November 9, 2011
BP to end clean-up operations in Gulf oil spill
BP will officially be off the hook for any deposits of oil that wash up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico – unless they can be traced directly to the Macondo well, it emerged on Tuesday. Under a plan approved by the Coast Guard on 2 November, the oil company will end active [...]
November 8, 2011
November 8, 2011
November 6, 2011
Herman Cain ignores the PR rulebook in race for White House
Link to this video Herman Cain dates the start of his presidential ambitions to a few minutes before 10 o’clock on the evening of 22 January 1999. His first grandchild, Celena, had just been born and as he held her in his arms he was moved by a sense of calling. He wrote a poem [...]
November 5, 2011
US removes Afghanistan commander Peter Fuller for criticising Karzai
Major General Peter Fuller, a top US commander in Afghanistan, has been relieved of his duties after criticising the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), relieved Fuller as deputy commander of the effort to train Afghan security forces after Fuller told Politico that Afghan leaders were [...]