China Holds Firm on Major Issues in Obama’s Visit

Nov 18, 2009 - President Obama toured the historic Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday during a break from meetings with Chinese leaders. Source BEIJING — In six hours of meetings, at two dinners and during a stilted 30-minute news conference in which President Hu Jintao did not allow questions, President Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the United States. On topics like Iran (Mr. - 1 Comment

Can You Believe This?

Nov 17, 2009 -   New mammogram guidelines raise questions Benefits of screening before age 50 don't outweigh risks, task force says   updated 7:39 a.m. CT, Tues., Nov . 17, 2009 NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. - 7 Comments

Officers missed kidnap victim on 60 visits to Garrido's home

Nov 04, 2009 - SACRAMENTO — A blistering new report concludes that state corrections officials failed repeatedly to properly supervise accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido for 10 years, missing numerous opportunities to discover that he had allegedly kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch-area backyard during the entire time California authorities were supposed to be keeping watch over him. Among the mistakes by state parole agents who supervised Garrido from 1999 until his latest arrest in August was a failure to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender, why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard and why agents took no action when they received information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms. A four-page executive summary of the audit by California Inspector General David R. - 8 Comments

Rasmussen: What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

Oct 24, 2009 - These days, political turmoil isn’t a one-way street. President Obama’s mediocre approval ratings and the Democrats’ internal battling over the details of the health care reform plan are the obvious headline-grabbers, but the opposition party has troubles of its own. Just 15% of Republicans who plan to vote in 2012 state primaries say the party’s representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing GOP values. - 1 Comment

Obama Threatens Insurers’ Anti-Trust Exemption

Oct 17, 2009 - By PETER BAKER (NYT) WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws. In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own “profits and bonuses” and willing to “bend the truth or break it” to stop his drive to remake the nation’s health care system. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address to challenge industry assertions that legislation will drive up premiums. - 0 Comments

States letting inmates cut even more prison time

Oct 16, 2009 - PAWTUCKET, R.I. – If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military. - 4 Comments

Please sign the NJ Emergency Petition to Revise Energy Plan

Apr 23, 2008 - Please sign the emergency petition and tell him to revise the energy plan to go big on solar, wind and conservation -- and eliminate plans for new power plants. http://www.environmentnewjersey.org/action/energy/emergencypetition?id4=ES We've told the governor what the public is against: a plan to add more power plants. And we've told him what we're for: strong expansion of solar power, off-shore wind and one of the country's most aggressive plans to promote high-performance, energy efficient homes, buildings and technologies. - 1 Comment

It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon?

Oct 12, 2009 - NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother’s fiancé by his side to vouch for him. - 11 Comments

Is there any truth to this?

Oct 08, 2009 - I saw this and thought it was interesting.  I'm not sure what the truthfulness is.     About 6 months ago I was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. - 1 Comment