Members of the left-wing activist group Code Pink tried to make a “citizen’s arrest” of Karl Rove last night at a book signing in Beverly Hills. The event was eventually shut down and Rove was forced to leave the stage after being heckled as a “war criminal.” Rove said the interruptions reflected the “totalitarianism of the left.”
Health Care Law = Waste of SCOTUS’ Time - The Supreme Court on Tuesday answered a long-running question in the realm of the False Claims Act. But President Barack Obama had already beaten the court...
Civil Rights Era Cold Case Investigations Continue - The following post appears courtesy of the Civil Rights Division. In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was sent by his mother to live ...
Half of Commercial Mortgages to Be Underwater: Warren — By the end of 2010, about half of all commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater, said Elizabeth Warren, chairperson of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, in a wide-ranging interview on Monday.
Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean. ...Large tracts in the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska -- nearly 130 million acres -- would be eligible for exploration and drilling after extensive studies.
Obama hopes for new Iran sanctions 'this spring' --Obama tells reporters he would like to see new UN sanctions imposed on Iran 'in weeks' France is standing with the United States in condemning Israeli construction in east Jerusalem. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said his own commitment to Israel's security is well known, but added that the "settlement" activity in an area claimed by the Palestinians "contributes nothing." Speaking at a news conference with President Barack Obama after their White House meeting Tuesday, Sarkozy said the "absence of peace" in the region "is a problem for all of us" - and that it feeds terrorism around the world. Obama, for his part, told reporters he would like to see new UN sanctions placed on Iran in a matter of weeks.
Canadians firm on leaving Afghanistan next year Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday rebuffed an American suggestion that he keep some of his country's troops in Afghanistan following a scheduled pullout next year, reasserting that only 'civilians' would continue in the mission. Harper reiterated his stand during a 20-minute meeting in Ottowa with visiting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Drug firm investigated FDA officials For more than two months in late 2008, private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration - unearthing details about her husband, two daughters, and in-laws, and re-tracing her steps on a business trip she took to Thailand. The drug company, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., paid more than $100,000 to Kroll, the New York-based private investigative firm, to uncover the information about Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who overees the agency’s new-drug approvals.
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