Williams was fired from National Public Radio in 2010 after saying he sometimes gets “nervous” when seated on an airplane with Muslims, while making a broader point about the importance of religious tolerance.
The industry’s power brokers continue to stick their collective tongues out at roughly half the country, the half that prefers to see Hollywood’s biggest night devoted to the stars, not the White House’s latest media outreach effort.
After hearing reports of the Obama Administration’s attempts to force the Canadian government to impose a carbon tax regime in exchange for allowing the Keystone project to go forward, one has to wonder if the latest proposal is a capitulation to the president’s heavy-handed tactics.
Parker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”
“My view is simple: Washington is a rough-and-tumble place,” Cruz said last week. “If folks want to attack me personally, they’re welcome to it. Texans elected a senator to go to Washington and speak the truth.”
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.