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  • Ukraine could lose the war without US aid — Zelenskyy’s Chief-of-Staff

    12/06/2023 10:00:33 AM PST · by Mariner · 106 replies
    The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo ^ | December 5th, 2023 | Unattributed
    Unless the U.S. Congress votes to fund further U.S. military assistance to Kyiv, Ukraine is at risk of losing the war with Russia, head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said during a visit to the United States on Dec. 5.“If the assistance currently under discussion in Congress is delayed — I'm not even talking about it being voted down — it will create a significant risk that we will be in the same position in which we are now,” Voice of America quotes Yermak.
  • Dear Naomi Wolf: THANKS, BABE! ..... Conservatively Yours .........

    03/10/2023 9:58:52 PM PST · by Ozguy1945 · 30 replies
    Naomi Wolf has condemned the distortions by Democrats over January 6 and apologised to conservatives for believing the lies. What A Babe !!!!!!!!! Spread The Word.
  • Zelensky: Russia planning major offensive

    01/04/2023 12:09:19 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 44 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/04/2023 | Brad Dress
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said Russia is planning a major “new offensive” but did not give an estimated timeline for the attack. In a Tuesday address, Zelensky warned the Ukrainian people of “new mobilization processes” that Russia is preparing. “We have no doubt that the current masters of Russia will throw everything they have left and everyone they can muster to try to turn the tide of the war and at least postpone their defeat,” Zelensky said. “We have to disrupt this Russian scenario. We are preparing for this. The terrorists must lose.” Some Ukrainian officials also warned...
  • Crump, did you tell the prez how you framed George Zimmerman?

    05/27/2021 8:25:30 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 5/26/2021 | Jack Cashill
    Attorney Benjamin Crump and members of George Floyd's family met on Tuesday with President Joe Biden, ostensibly to talk about what Crump calls the "George Floyd Justice and Policin' Act." "The president was very personal," Crump told reporters afterward, "because he got to know this family over the years." Crump did not say how many years ago Biden first met the Floyds, but he can be forgiven for this miscue in that he usually makes even less sense than Biden. If, however, Crump bragged to the president about how he cleverly framed George Zimmerman in the 2012 Florida death of...
  • Biden’s Virtual Campaign Is a Disaster

    05/15/2020 11:59:32 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 37 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | May 15 2020 | Andrew Ferguson
    They say that if you live long enough, you’ll get to experience nearly everything, and so it has been for Joe Biden, who has lived to see history’s first Zoom presidential campaign. Unfortunately for him, it’s his. Nobody looks good on Zoom—or FaceTime or Skype or any of the other online simulacra of human interaction that the lockdown has forced upon us. It diminishes all the distractions and intangibles that give life texture and zest, that make life seem rather pleasanter than it is. Did anyone fully understand just how unfunny late-night talk-show hosts are—take your pick; I pick Stephen...
  • Republicans split on Americans getting $1K coronavirus checks

    03/18/2020 2:21:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 67 replies
    nypost ^ | 03/18/2020 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — Republicans are divided on President Trump’s push to send large checks to all Americans as soon as April 6 to keep the coronavirus from crushing the economy — putting the universal payday in doubt. “I think it makes sense later, not now,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters after a meeting of Senate Republicans on Wednesday afternoon. GOP leaders have three groups of senators crafting a $1 trillion stimulus package that could pass as early as this weekend. But with Republicans holding just 53 seats, even a small number of defections could block the idea of direct checks.
  • Zuckerberg And Wife Commit $45 Million To Two Main Political Causes

    10/25/2017 7:33:36 AM PDT · by rktman · 33 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 10/24/2017 | Eric Lieberman
    The hefty sum — although still a fraction of his fortunes — will be directed for the solving of two main areas of personal concern for Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan: widespread incarceration and unaffordable housing. The funds will come from the personal coffers of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a limited liability company that outwardly reflects a foundation. “You can make change, but in order for it to be sustainable, you need to build a movement to support it,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with The New York Times around the time of Plouffe’s hiring. “No amount of...
  • Heidi Cruz Met on Campaign Trail by Superstorm Sandy Protests

    04/12/2016 3:42:44 PM PDT · by bobsunshine · 95 replies
    Wall Street Journel Blog ^ | April 11, 2016 | Heather Haddon
    New York victims of the 2012 storm object to Ted Cruz's vote against relief funds. MINEOLA, N.Y.—Heidi Cruz, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, was met at a campaign event by victims of Superstorm Sandy who protested his opposition to a 2013 bill doling out billions in aid for storm relief and clean-up. People from Long Island and southeast Queens, which were devastated by the October 2012 storm, said the Texas senator’s vote against a $51 billion aid package targeted to New York and New Jersey to recover from the damages disqualified him from the presidency. The 2013...
  • Libya: Rising from the ashes of civil war to peace.

    12/13/2015 12:51:52 AM PST · by free_life · 8 replies
    The Hill ^ | Dec 11, 2015 | Ibrahim F. Emmesh and Awad M. AbdulSadig
    We represent the two rival Libyan political houses, and we are proud to announce that we have just reached a long sought-after agreement to finally end the political impasse that has plagued our resource-rich nation since Gaddafi's overthrow. The two parties to the agreement - the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) and the House of Representatives - are establishing a government of national unity based upon the principals of Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's 1941 Act of the Right of Nations to Self-Determination. The Roosevelt-Churchill doctrine, based on the principles of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, states that...
  • Education Secretary Backs Public Boarding Schools: ‘Certain Kids We Should Have 24/7’

    05/13/2015 9:08:14 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 57 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | May 12, 2015 | 3:03 PM EDT | Penny Starr
    Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday proposed the idea of public boarding schools, saying there are “just certain kids we should have 24/7.” “One idea that I threw out … is the idea of public boarding schools,” Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. “That’s a little bit of a different idea—a controversial idea—but the question is do we have some children where there’s not a mom, there’s not a dad, there’s not a grandma, there’s just nobody at home? There’s just certain kids we should have 24/7 to really create a safe...
  • Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue as part of long-term deficit package

    09/18/2011 9:08:22 PM PDT · by mylife · 103 replies
    AP ^ | 9/18/11 | Jim Kuhnhenn
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drawing a bright line with congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama is proposing $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue as part of his long-term deficit reduction plan, according to senior administration officials. The president on Monday will announce a proposal that includes repeal of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, nearly $250 billion in reductions in Medicare spending, $330 billion in cuts in other mandatory benefit programs, and savings of $1 trillion from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the officials said. The plan includes no changes in Social Security and does not include an...
  • McCain, Kyl, Dever present security plan

    04/20/2010 12:31:07 PM PDT · by HiJinx · 10 replies · 238+ views
    The Sierra Vista Herald ^ | April 20, 2010 | Derek Jordan
    SIERRA VISTA — With increased notice being paid to border security since the killing of a Cochise County rancher last month, it is important that local and state lawmakers get a commitment from the federal goverment to provide additional security along Arizona’s border with Mexico, the county’s sheriff said Monday. “While we have the nation’s attention, it’s important that we strike now,” Larry Dever said. The killing of Robert Krentz, presumably by an illegal immigrant, “has put an exclamation point on the problems that we face and have faced down there for some time,” the sheriff said during a telephone...
  • US Settles Massive Lawsuit With Native Americans [$3.4 bil]

    12/08/2009 11:12:09 AM PST · by NativeNewYorker · 46 replies · 1,992+ views
    deutsche press via email, no link | 12/8/9
    Washington (dpa) -- The United States on Tuesday agreed to pay 3.4 billion dollars to settle a long-running lawsuit brought by some 300,000 Native Americans who claimed they had been cheated out of land revenue for more than a century. The class-action lawsuit was first brought 13 years ago and has been the subject of 22 judicial decisions. Many past attempts to settle the claims have failed. "We are here to right a past wrong," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a press conference in Washington. The settlement still has to be approved by Congress and in court. The dispute...
  • Opinion: Real reparations for African-Americans: health care reform

    10/26/2009 3:08:52 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 49 replies · 1,399+ views
    mercurynews.com ^ | 10/25/2009 | Alessandra Harris
    As the public debate over health care reform continues, many African-Americans are concerned that the minority of voices loudly denouncing a public option might sideline the real reform their community desperately needs. From the cradle to the grave, African-Americans have poorer health outcomes: African-American infant mortality is more than double that of whites; African-American women make up 70 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections; three times as many black Americans die from diabetes as white Americans; and the life expectancy for whites is 78 years, compared with 73 years for all African-Americans and less than 70 years for African-American males.
  • No Free Check for 2016 Olympics

    08/05/2009 8:57:15 AM PDT · by fiscon1 · 6 replies · 611+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 08/05/2009 | Manny Flores
    We will soon learn if Chicago receives the honor of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Winning the Games will be a testament to our city's vitality and global leadership, and will offer an unparalleled opportunity for economic stimulus and community development. But these benefits will only be realized if we host a Games that respects community needs, is fully transparent in its contracting and hiring and is accountable to the citizens who will live with the Games' infrastructure and financial legacy for coming decades.
  • Obama White House putting muscle behind Chicago 2016 Olympic bid (helping his Chicago base)

    06/17/2009 8:54:30 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 27 replies · 831+ views
    Chical Sun Times ^ | 6-16-09 | Lynn Sweet
    With Chicago officials in Switzerland promoting Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid at an important site selection meeting, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned that President Obama is creating a new White House Office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport. According to the White House, 'this permanent White House office will promote the values of the Olympic Movement and encourage increased youth participation in athletics. The primary function of the Office will be to enhance awareness of the Olympic Movement through promotion of its fundamental principles at the federal level." From the White House... President Obama Announces New White House Office of Olympic,...
  • House gets unusual raise (15%=$90M .. for '10 elections issues)

    05/08/2009 11:28:05 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 48 replies · 4,158+ views
    Hot Air ^ | 5-7-09 | Ed Morrissey
    In tough economic times, one would expect most people and institutions to do a little belt-tightening to save money. Not Congress, however, although that’s hardly news in Year 1 of Porkulus. However, Pelosi & Co have slipped into the budget a $90 million increase in incumbency protection that has gone almost completely unnoticed — and unquestioned: ~~~ The House wants to increase Members’ office budgets next fiscal year by almost 15 percent, partly because 2010 is an election year and lawmakers anticipate a surge in franked mail. In a recently released budget request, the House Chief Administrative Officer asked appropriators...
  • Mayor Daley urging President Obama to bail out airlines

    04/21/2009 4:26:35 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 13 replies · 575+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 4-21-09 | Fran Spielman
    Mayor Daley is urging President Obama to bail out an airline industry that has “weathered one extraordinary challenge after another” since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In an April 10 letter to the president, Daley referred to the “precarious state of our nation’s airports and airlines” and argued that the airline industry is every bit as deserving of a federal bailout as the banking, insurance and auto industries. “In contrast to the hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars directed to the banking and insurance industries during the past few months and the tens of billions funneled into two...
  • Biden announces $1.3 billion for Amtrak

    03/13/2009 11:32:43 AM PDT · by anniegetyourgun · 73 replies · 1,652+ views
    CNN ^ | 3/13/09
    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden continued the administration's rollout of the recently passed economic stimulus package Friday, highlighting $1.3 billion in federal funding for Amtrak. The money for the rail service, which carried almost 29 million passengers in the previous fiscal year, will go primarily to infrastructure repair and improvement. The $787 billion stimulus plan includes a total of $8 billion for improvements in rail service, a crucial investment to help ease traffic in the congested northeast corridor running from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, Biden argued.
  • House Infrastructure Committee Hearing Considers the Stimulus Bill (check Chicago's list)

    01/22/2009 8:16:53 PM PST · by STARWISE · 2 replies · 250+ views
    Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Holds Hearing on “Infrastructure Investment: Ensuring an Effective Economic Recovery Program“ At a hearing this morning, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee discussed how the stimulus bill would be used most effectively. The hearing, titled “Infrastructure Investment: Ensuring an Effective Economic Recovery Program,” featured as witnesses the Governor of Wisconsin, the New York State Commissioner of Transportation, and the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Transit Authority. Each witness argued not only that states and municipalities would be able to distribute funds from the federal government quickly and effectively, but also that more money would...