Palin posts letter to Facebook calling Obama ’son’
Do it now, son.
It’s an expression of disrespect, calling someone your “son” if they are not indeed your progeny. So when former lawmaker Sarah Palin closed a recent Facebook post with “Thank you, Mr. President,” surely she did not mean it, considering the contents of a letter she had just posted.
The missive was [...]
NY governor vows emergency cuts to keep budget solvent
New York Governor David Paterson has said he would take executive action to prevent the state running out of money before the end of the year.
Paterson said negotiations at the state assembly in the capital Albany had not solved the problem, forcing him to take emergency executive measures to plug a 3.2-billion-dollar hole in a [...]
Rep. Hinchey: Bush ‘intentionally let Bin Laden get away’
The Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq, according to a Democratic lawmaker from New York.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) leveled the allegation during an interview with MSNBC host David Shuster on Monday afternoon.
“Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, [...]
Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas
After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines [...]
Obama maintains secrecy for ‘millions of pages’ of intel documents
Documents long classified but scheduled to be released at the end of 2009 will not see the light of day just yet thanks to the Obama administration, according to a published report.
Under pressure to grant an extension to intelligence agencies that have reviewed only a fraction of the “millions of pages,” the administration is allowing [...]
