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News From Thursday, July 08, 2010
11:37:14 PM Today on PolitiCal: Brown tries to shore up Latino vote. Polls tighten
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) A new poll shows a tight race between Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina, with Boxer's negative numbers on the rise. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill ... [more]

10:17:21 PM Sen. Kerry weighs in on oil spill
WWLP 22News - Springfield,USA

Senator John Kerry told 22News, no matter what, the oil spill will have a major impact on offshore drilling in the future. "It's the largest single .... [more]

9:59:54 PM Gregg to Lead AHIP
National Underwriter Life and Health Insurance News

By NU ONLINE NEWS SERVICE In 2004, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., appointed Gregg to the US National Institutes of Health Commission on ... [more]

9:43:48 PM Sarah Palin's got a new target: the "mama grizzly" vote (VIDEO)
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

.... US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the Republican former Hewlett Packard CEO who's running against Democratic incumbent US Senator Barbara Boxer. ... [more]

7:51:16 PM Poll: 70 percent of Americans reject cap-and-trade
Washington Examiner

“The president was very clear about putting a price on carbon and limiting greenhouse gas emissions,” said Senator John Kerry, co-sponsor of the ... [more]

7:39:38 PM How Republican Senators Plan to Vote on Kagan
New York Times Blogs

Of those nine, none face re-election this year, three are retiring and a fourth — Mel Martinez of Florida — has already left the Senate. ... [more]

7:20:07 PM Hard as it is to say, GOP Chairman Steele is right
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

The battle begun under President Bush had a cause and a goal that was firmly backed by the nation. Americans were hungry for revenge after 9/11 and those ... [more]

7:18:55 PM Poll: Barbara Boxer slightly leads Carly Fiorina in CA Senate race
Motors ...

A new poll out today shows Democrat Barbara Boxer has a slight lead in her competitive California Senate race against former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly .... [more]

5:34:48 PM Cuba to move political prisoners 'in coming hours,' church says
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

The church announced Wednesday that 52 political prisoners were set to be freed and allowed to leave the country. It would be one of Cuba's largest prisoner ... [more]

4:59:27 PM Massachusetts Politicians Clash on "New START"
Global Security Newswire - Washington,DC,USA

Surely Romney would not want to give up that right" (John Kerry, Washington Post II, July 7). While the preamble to the treaty does make a connection ... [more]

3:41:31 PM White House Day Ahead...Thursday - Stimulating the Democrats' Economy
FOXNews

FOXNews (blog) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says while the President enjoys a good card game of spades while passing the time on Air Force One, he doubts Mr. ... [more]

3:41:00 PM Boxer leads Fiorina, but approval rating plummets
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) leads former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (R) 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters in the survey, which had a margin ... [more]

3:05:25 PM How Much Would Cap and Trade Cost?
TIME (blog)

In a preliminary look at the American Power Act—the climate legislation that has been put forward by Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman—the CBO ... [more]

12:48:17 PM Political Wisdom: Questions for November
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

Barbara Boxer and her Republican rival Carly Fiorina traded jabs over hairdos. In Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican rival Sharron ... [more]

12:08:58 PM Nuclear treaty debate expands outside the Beltway
substantive ...

Defense writers such as Fred Kaplan have pointed out factual errors in Romney's piece, and even Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, ... [more]

11:01:54 AM Editorial: Find compromise, pass clean energy bill
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., has stalled. It taxes coal-fired power plants and other large polluters for carbon dioxide emissions. ... [more]

6:32:54 AM Barbara Boxer strikes familiar theme and touts value of incumbents
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) discusses job creation after touring the the new terminal under construction at Sacramento International Airport. ... [more]

6:27:11 AM Editorial: No one fix for immigration system
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA

Obama cited former President Bush's role in championing these reforms when he was in the White House. (Highly partisan remarks by Obama about the GOP and ... [more]

6:05:54 AM NASA's Cloudy Future
Atlantic Online - USA

NASA has depended for years -- sometimes against the wishes of the president -- on a succession of powerful congressional figures, most recently Tom DeLay, ... [more]

5:06:56 AM The Great Game 2008: The failed "On to the Oxus" (Afghan occupation) policy.
Pakistan Patriot

Bill Frist gets it! Curzon decided to extend the British Empire to the Oxus. The defeat of the British in Afghanistan is depicted in this famous painting of ... [more]

4:31:24 AM Hoax Press Releases Falsely Report Deaths Of Two California Senators
LA Weekly

.... Feinstein and Barbara Boxer along with the demise of senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Kay Hutchison of Texas, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. ... [more]

4:16:48 AM Cuba to release 52 political prisoners, Catholic Church says
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Ortega met this week with Cuban President Raúl Castro, brother of the country's ailing dictator. Fidel Castro, 83, has not been seen in public for four ... [more]

3:43:32 AM Obama Fills Top CMS Post
National Underwriter Life and Health Insurance News

John Kerry, D-Mass., has defended Berwick's appointment. “Republican lockstep stalling of Don's nomination was a case study in cynicism and one awful ... [more]

2:18:08 AM White House takes ownership of Arizona lawsuit
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

It looks like the White House isn't flinching from taking ownership of the Justice Department's lawsuit to overturn the Arizona immigration law. ... [more]

1:47:12 AM Boxer says Fiorina is too extreme for California
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer is characterizing Republican challenger Carly Fiorina's views on abortion, oil drilling and other issues as too extreme for Californians as ... [more]

1:40:33 AM Sotomayor's GOP 'yay' votes remain mute on Kagan
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

John Kerry, D-Mass., in the traditional home-state senators' role of introducing Kagan to the Judiciary Committee at the beginning of her confirmation ... [more]



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