No big surprise here: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early next week that includes Gates at the Pentagon and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as secretary of state, officials said. Retired Marine Gen. James […]
Timeline fever is catching on, and now Afghanistan has caught it: President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how […]
Ann Coulter has her jaw wired shut. Actually (and I can’t believe I am saying this), but I do feel for her. I went through this in my teens. Not a fun experience.
Paulson has announced he is spending an additional $600 billion to buy up toxic mortgages: The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it will purchase up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets, the toxic assets that have been weighing down embattled government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae (FNM: News ) and Freddie Mac (FRE: News ). Buying […]
It looks like Harry Reid may not be going anywhere in the near future: The lieutenant governor of Nevada says the state attorney general’s office intends to have him indicted over how he handled a college savings program as state treasurer. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Monday he believes he is being targeted for political […]
Latinos is the fastest growing part of our population, so their vote is going to continue to grow in significance. That hasn’t mattered to the Michelle Malkins, Rush Limbaughs and Tom Tancredos of the world. They continue their demonizing of the Hispanic community through illegal immigration. Well it looks like some Republicans are worried about […]
There is so much damage control to be done from eight years of total incompetence running our country that we end up forgetting where all the broken pieces are. Well Barack Obama hasn’t forgotten and he is working to fix them. One big piece is FEMA: The Federal Emergency Management Administration, a tragicomic disaster […]
I got to take a minute and acknowledge someone who helped get my interest in politics some 20 years ago. Wayne Coates has won Hamilton County Recorder after the votes were recounted. When Wayne Coates got the news Monday that he’d won the election for Hamilton County recorder, he exclaimed a word not fit for […]
Is the FBI still investigating ACORN? I remember hearing how there was tons of fraud here in Ohio, especially Cincinnati. Well the local election board has now finished investigating, and ‘>look what they found: We now have an answer to the million-dollar question: was there voter fraud in Hamilton County? “Not at this time,” said […]
These companies that are being given lifelines by our government are like a bunch of children. They want all the money, but don’t want to take on any responsibility. Here’s a perfect example: AIG, Citibank and a number of other federally bailed-out financial institutions have no plans to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in […]