David Souter plans to retire this June, which gives Obama his first chance to appoint a new US supreme court justice. Souter was appointed by Bush Sr in 1990, but often disappointed Republicans with voting liberal. There is currently an even split of conservative and liberal justices with just...
North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs that the administration will launch a series of missiles. A U.S. destroyer was following a North Korean ship off China’s coast, suspected of transporting illegal weapons to Myanmar....
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was arrested outside the presidential palace by soldiers on Sunday, is in Costa Rica and has asked for asylum, according to CNN. Zelaya had provoked a political crisis after seeking to hold a vote on constitutional reforms that the Supreme Court of Honduras...
Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad narrowly escaped a bomb attack near his convoy in southern Iraq yesterday, as reported by the U.S. embassy in Iraq. The attack happened yesterday in Nassriyah, the capital city of Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, where Hill was on a visit. The U.S....
After the arrest of Harvard scholar Prof. Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent dropping of charges, Obama further fueled the controversy by taking sides with the black scholar who happened to be his old friend. The result wasn't as Obama had expected. Sergeant Crowley from the Cambridge Police...
Many folks are unhappy with Obama's political agenda which really resembles Socialism in Action. In Los Angeles a growing movement has been sparked around a poster that makes Obama resemble the Joker from a Dark Knight.
One Chicago Diner put up a Tip Jar during a street festival and well it caused quite a stirring controversy in the blogosphere with blogs blasting the bar and calling for official investigations into improprieties. Nary a call for investigation went on for years when the tip jar was called the...
Remember the posters which had Barack Obama painted as Heath Ledger's Joker, which could be found all over the internet and on the streets of Los Angeles few weeks back ? Well, it turns out that creator of those posters was Firas Alkhateeb, a 20 year old college chap studying in Chicago at the...
President Barack Obama was invited to the Hill to address a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Wednesday night. When he started speaking about health care and said, “the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally”, Representative Joe Wilson shouted out, “You...
As news spread that former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had snuck back into the country, Honduras appears to be heading rapidly towards a full scale revolution. Zelaya supporters backed by the more democratic nations around Latin America appear ready to protect him, and the American backed...
