The top Republican in the U.S. Congress highlighted a policy rift Thursday with his party’s presidential hopeful when he reiterated his opposition to using legislation to press China to revalue its currency.
Turkey has exchanged nearly 60 tons of gold for several million tons of Iranian crude oil, despite its promises to uphold Western sanctions on Iran’s energy sector. The exchanges raise questions about the Obama administration’s decision to grant Turkey a temporary waiver exempting it from U.S. sanctions to Iran.
Obama’s campaign seems to have taken a page out of the playbook of his supporter, former FNSB Mayor Jim Whitaker, in making the wild assertion that Romney had committed a felony in connection with Bail Capital.
NAACP convention organizers said Obama cited a “scheduling conflict” as the reason he couldn’t attend but Obama spent today in Washington D.C. and had no major public events. One former Obama official said the move appeared to be a “snub” to the NAACP.
Even by Alaskan standards, Wednesday’s rock slide in Glacier Bay National Park was a huge event. It was a monumental geophysical event that registered 3.4 on the Richter scale and would have been overlooked had a pilot not flown over the area.
Mark Levin describes the “pockets of tyranny in our own country” and makes the case for why an Obama reelection would result in the destruction of the nation.
Within a year or two, the US government will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet away. It detects traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you.
It’s real, it’s inspired by maple seeds, and the company behind it, Lockheed Martin, envisions a future in which swarms of the new drones can be deployed at a fraction of the cost and with greater capabilities than drones being used today by the military and other agencies.
USDA is targeting Spanish speakers with radio soap operas promoting food stamp usage as part of a stated mission to increase program participation. No English language equivalent is planned.
Pelosi, a constant critic of outsourcing and overseas investment, made up to $5 million last year in exclusively Asian investments according to her just-released House financial disclosures.