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News From Wednesday, February 10, 2010
11:34:18 PM Arizona Sheriff, US in Standoff Over Immigration Enforcement
Wall Street Journal - USA

By MIRIAM JORDAN An Arizona sheriff said he planned to defy Washington's attempts to roll back his staunch enforcement of federal immigration law, ... [more]

11:08:34 PM Acting Nigerian President Sacks Justice Minister
Voice of America

Nigeria's new acting president has demoted the Minister of Justice who opposed his taking temporary power in the prolonged medical absence of the country's ... [more]

10:42:21 PM Broward school district takes 2 months to pay ethics panel administrator
South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA

The three members of the independent commission – Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, attorney W. George Allen, and former Florida Attorney General Bob ... [more]

10:40:46 PM Newt Gingrich Trips Up Again With Daily Show Correction
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

That's a standard GOP talking point, and yet when President Bush moved the Padilla case from a military setting to the criminal system, it was Gingrich who ... [more]

10:25:36 PM White House Rebuffs GOP's Calls for Brennan's Resignation
Obama Accuses McCain of Same Old Republican Campaign Tactics

The White House Wednesday resisted calls by two Republican lawmakers for President Obama's top counterterrorism aide, John Brennan, to step down. ... [more]

9:23:04 PM I Prefer Partisan Good Ideas to Bipartisan Bad Ones
Chafee, Republican For Obama, Wants 9/11 Reinvestigated

Klein noted, accurately, that Tom DeLay expressed a similar theme in his farewell remarks: "You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a ... [more]

9:00:16 PM Kerry: Google will force others to 'step up'
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Google's plans to build trial super-fast broadband networks across the country will let communities "step up" and "show America ... [more]

8:33:44 PM Wallace to Moderate Florida Republican Debate?
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

Mel Martinez's US Senate seat, and "Fox News Sunday" might soon have Chris Wallace moderate a debate between the two. According to the Chicago Tribune's The ... [more]

8:16:44 PM Republicans Demand Brennan Resign For Calling Out GOP Politicization Of
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

Think Progress Peter King (R-NY) criticized President Obama for issuing a statement on the failed bombing 72 hours after the event, even though President Bush waited .... [more]

7:21:59 PM Does Snowmageddon = A Snow Day at the White House?
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

Having a short commute from the White House residence to the West Wing, the president is working today, the White House says, but his schedule has been ... [more]

7:07:45 PM Bush Billboard a Sign of Hope and Change
FOX News - USA

We do miss President Bush While former “Obama girl” Amber Lee Ettinger is reportedly getting over her crush on our president, recent evidence has surfaced ... [more]

6:11:57 PM Evangelical leader calls for kinder, gentler immigration laws
Motors ...

Galen Carey of the National Association of Evangelicals called for Congress to "pass meaningful immigration reform this year" today in a conference call ... [more]

5:47:21 PM Mystery solved over Bush "Miss me yet?" Billboard
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Can you please mispronounce some words, mangle an expression, maybe say something like: "Is our children learning" like President Bush so famously did. ... [more]

5:37:28 PM The GOP's Post-Murtha Challenge
CBS News - USA

Pennsylvania's twelfth is the only district in the country that voted for John Kerry in 2004 and John McCain in 2008. It has a Cook Partisan Voting Index ... [more]

5:19:04 PM White House Highlights The Urgency Of Health Care Reform
Gov Monitor

In our current health insurance system, too many Americans are at the whim of private, for-profit insurance companies who are raking in billions in profits ... [more]

3:58:12 PM The Huckabee Report Surpasses 500 Affiliates As News Commentary Feature
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) Tom Delay did better than expected on "Dancing With The Stars," but he quit the show because of stress fractures in both feet. That's one thing politics ... [more]

2:48:54 PM Health care for all residents benefits all
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

Offering adequate health care to everyone in the country, irrespective of race, national origin or immigration status, is in everyone's best interest. ... [more]

2:31:06 PM Intriguing people for February 10, 2010
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

By Jay Kernis, CNN President Bush is the subject of a Minnesota billboard, paid for by anonymous business owners. Editor's note: Every weekday, ... [more]

1:44:50 PM White House Operating in "I Get it" Mode
CBS News - USA

President Obama welcomed key leaders from both parties to the White House yesterday, and even made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room for an ... [more]

12:59:21 PM Kirin Taps New President
Wall Street Journal - USA

The Tokyo-based company said Vice President Senji Miyake, aged 62, will become the company's new president pending board approval after a shareholders' ... [more]

12:18:34 PM George Will thinks it will be DeVore vs. Boxer
OC Watchdog: Your Tax Dollars at Work (blog)

First, Chuck DeVore will be the Republican nominee for Barbara Boxer's senate seat. And second, Meg Whitman helped persuade Tom Campbell to jump for the ... [more]

11:14:20 AM Illegal Immigration Population In US Down By A Million: DHS
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA

(RTTNews) - The latest official report on illegal residents for the year 2009 released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security claims that the number ... [more]

11:12:34 AM Exclusive: Defense Secretary Robert Gates 'On the Record', Part 2
FOX News - USA

VAN SUSTEREN: You have served President Bush 43 as secretary of defense and President Obama as secretary of defense. What is the difference in terms of the ... [more]

10:24:32 AM Shelby gets White House attention
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA

White House spokesman Gibbs cited the hold on the nominations as bad government. “If you needed one example of what's wrong with this town, it might be that ... [more]

9:04:32 AM Immigrant rights group files complaint against Santa Clarita councilman
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) 16 anti-illegal-immigration rally in Santa Clarita, where Kellar, a veteran councilman and two-time mayor, spoke. In his comments, Kellar referred to a .... [more]

8:23:47 AM Toyota president: 'We failed to connect the dots'
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

By Kevin Voigt, CNN Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Co., bows in apology at Tuesday's press conference announcing another global recall. ... [more]

7:43:25 AM Climate bill buried under record snowfall
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.), who is leading a bipartisan effort to put together a compromise on energy and climate change legislation, has exhorted allies to act ... [more]

7:09:04 AM Webb: Tax big bonuses from bailout companies
Culpeper Star Exponent

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., last week in introducing the Taxpayer Fairness Act, legislation that would impose a 50 percent tax on “excessive bonuses” paid out ... [more]

6:34:02 AM Rubio vs. Crist: FOX News debate eyed
The Swamp - Chicago Tribune Blog - Chicago,IL,USA

Mel Martinez forfeited before the end of his term. Sen. George LeMieux, a Florida Republican and confidant of Crist appointed as a placeholder for the ... [more]

6:33:23 AM Drop the bomb
Blast - Boston,MA,USA

That's when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist threatened to invoke the nuclear option so that the President's nominees could get a full vote on the floor. ... [more]

6:29:08 AM We need no lectures – it's just SOSDD!
Las Vegas TSG (blog)

... after Abdulmutallab was read his rights, a long-standing FBI policy that was reaffirmed under Michael Mukasey, President Bush's attorney general. ... [more]

5:01:35 AM Pawlenty plays courier for Texas donor
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

Tim Pawlenty played courier for Texas Republican millionaire Bob Perry, the man behind the anti-John Kerry swiftboat ads and Minnesota ads against a former ... [more]

4:52:40 AM Nigeria's New Acting President Calls for Unity
Voice of America

Political momentum shifted against the president last week when Nigeria's powerful state governors said a temporary transfer of authority would be in the ... [more]

4:31:54 AM The 620 Sportsline says goodbye
KTAR.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA

One of the original hosts, George Allen, talked about the early years of the 620 Sportsline and how it was started. "In 1975 a guy by the name of John ... [more]

4:27:57 AM White House celebrates music that fueled the civil rights era
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Steve Jones, USA TODAY What:In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement, a concert celebrating Black History ... [more]

3:09:50 AM Obama Says Bipartisanship, But What He Wants Is GOP Surrender
CBS News - USA

"We must put aside partisanship for the sake of our nation," said the first President Bush in 1990 in appealing for congressional cooperation on the budget. ... [more]

2:58:55 AM Tiahrt snags a conservative endorsement
Gas prices become hot political issue for congressional races

Former Virgina Senator George Allen has endorsed Rep. Todd Tiahrt in his race to win a Kansas Senate seat this year. "Kansans deserve a strong, ... [more]

2:09:15 AM Come together, right now, over immigration reform
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The chances that Congress will take up comprehensive immigration reform this year are increasingly seen as poor to nil. What killed the prospect, .... [more]

1:27:58 AM Slight of hand: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs writes in jab at
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News By Kenneth R. Bazinet White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has the words 'Eggs, Milk, Bread (crossed out), Hope, and Change' written on his hand as he briefs ... [more]

12:35:58 AM Key Senate Republican Sees Jobs Bill Passing, Just Not This Week
Reform

The Senate's number two Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, said Tuesday, "There's no way it can be acted on this week," referring to a jobs bill Democrats are ... [more]

12:30:47 AM Senators blast Anthem hike; want action
Total Buzz

Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer today lashed out at Anthem Blue Cross for its plan to raise premiums as much as 39 percent and have called on state and ... [more]

12:25:33 AM Partisan 'Bottleneck' in Congress Still Hindering Civil Rights Gains, Says
NAACP

Wilmington Journal received a grade of incomplete because he took over Mel Martinez' senatorial seat in September. Martinez resigned to become secretary of the interior. ... [more]



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