Archive for June 13th, 2009
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‘Lone wolf’ terrorists elusive target for police (AP)
AP – An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church. -
Sotomayor impresses in interviews, senators say (AP)
AP – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has bonded with female senators about her childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries and shared war stories with the Senate’s former prosecutors about her days in the gritty Manhattan district attorney’s office. -
Obama’s spending poses political risk
After months of towering poll numbers, the White House is becoming concerned that President Obama’s spending plans could become a political liability in the 2010 midterm elections. -
Obama looks to relocate Gitmo detainees overseas (AP)
AP – The Obama administration has begun shipping newly cleared Guantanamo Bay inmates abroad, including three sent at week’s end to Saudi Arabia, to regain momentum in its effort to close the prison camp at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. -
Analysis: US must limit Afghan civilian deaths (AP)
AP – The big goals of the new American general taking charge of the war in Afghanistan start with fixing a problem that bedeviled the man he is replacing: the repeated, inadvertent killing of civilians. -
Analysis: US must limit Afghan civilian deaths (AP)
AP – The big goals of the new American general taking charge of the war in Afghanistan start with fixing a problem that bedeviled the man he is replacing: the repeated, inadvertent killing of civilians. -
Obama pledges to quickly sign anti-smoking bill (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama is lauding the passage of historic anti-smoking legislation that gives the government sweeping authority to regulate tobacco products, pledging to quickly sign the measure into law. -
Hospitals oppose Obama’s Medicare, Medicaid cuts (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, but hospitals, medical technicians and others are resisting. -
Frank the Firefighter no Joe the Plumber (Politico)
Politico – Firefighter Frank Ricci has the stuff to emerge from nowhere as an icon in conservative circles.
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Obama taps major donors as diplomats
President Obama has tapped four Democratic Party donors for ambassadorships in Europe and Latin America while naming six career diplomats to posts in Africa, the Mideast and the Pacific.
