Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949. The Nationalists, once bitter Cold War rivals with China’s Communists, support eventual unification with mainland China but only under a still-to-be negotiated framework.
Newsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein said that since Gibbs has been “freed” from his role as the official spokesperson for the administration, he “has become considerably more candid.”
Coburn to White House: Stop visiting cities promoting federal-local partnerships as sequestration looms.
Hamid Karzai has ordered all US special forces to leave a beleaguered province bordering Kabul, accusing them of murders and disappearances.
Thousands of high-risk parolees are removing GPS monitors, often with little risk of serving time, because jails are too full to hold them. Some have been charged with new crimes.
ProgressNow has funded numerous front groups to influence elections in disparate regions. The group’s advisers include Media Matters founder David Brock, MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, and Center for American Progress chairman John Podesta.
Six months and a grand-jury probe later, there still are few answers about the phantom requests, which targeted Democratic voters in a congressional district and Republican voters in two Florida House districts.
The city Health Department last week began sending brochures to businesses that would be affected by the latest ban, including restaurants, bars and any “food service” establishment subject to letter grades.
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Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government.