Category: Politics
Politics:
Iran claims nuclear advance day before talks
Iran claimed another advance in its disputed nuclear activities on Sunday, a day before opening a new round of talks on that work with world powers.
The country's nuclear chief said that for the first time the country had mined its own uranium — which can be processed into material used to make nuclear energy or nuclear weapons — giving it a way to bypass U.N. sanctions prohibiting the material's import.
The announcement displays Iran's determination to master nuclear technology without outside help just a day before world powers meet Iranian officials in Geneva in another attempt to persuade them to freeze key aspects of that work.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/05/nuclear-chief-says-i...
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Obama Open to Tax Cut Compromise, With Conditions
President Obama told Congressional leaders Saturday that he was open to a compromise on extending the Bush-era tax cuts, but threatened to veto if the deal didn’t include an unemployment extension.
Speaking with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama said he would consider permitting a renewal of Bush era tax cuts for all taxpayers, including the wealthy, but that Republicans would be expected to include commitments to some Democratic priorities.
Obama wants an extension of jobless benefits in addition to extensions of the tax cuts that benefit middle class families.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/05/obama-open-tax-cu...
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WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant 'Insurance' File if Shut Down
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay.
One of the files identified this weekend by The Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file — has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia.
Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/05/wikileaks-ready-rele...
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Durbin: DREAM Act will Come to the Senate Floor Next Week
Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Friday predicted a Senate vote on the DREAM Act will be held next week. "Sen. Reid is going to call it," Durbin told The Hill shortly after the chamber adjourned at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Two procedural votes are scheduled for Saturday morning on competing plans to address the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. The legislation would provide legal residence to the children of immigrants who were brought into the country during their youth if they attend college or join the military. House leaders said this week they expect a vote in the lower chamber next week.
Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/131941-durb...
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Randi Rhodes Says Conservatives 'Can't Stand' the Constitution
On her radio show Wednesday, Randi Rhodes insisted that conservatives are not constitutionalists. They know nothing about the Constitution, she asserted. She oddly claimed that there's “nothing about politics” in the Constitution, so resisting new spending because it makes you popular is apparently quite unconstitutional behavior: And they don't give a rat's ass if you are suffering through Christmas, or if your 9-year-old is suffering through Christmas, or your 3-year-old is crying...or your 6-year-old is hungry...they just don't give a rat's ass! This is all politics, and frankly, there is nothing about politics in the Constitution, nothing! No parties, no politics!
Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/04/randi-rho...
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Obama Pardons 9 Convicted of Drug, Other Offenses
President Barack Obama has granted the first pardons of his presidency, to nine people convicted of crimes including possessing drugs, counterfeiting and even mutilating coins. No one well-known was on the list, and some of the crimes dated back decades or had drawn little more than a slap on the wrist in the first place — such as the Pennsylvania man sentenced in 1963 to probation and a $20 fine for mutilating coins. The White House didn't explain the charge, but tampering with federal currency is a crime.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_...
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2010 Death Toll of US Troops Nears that of 2001-2008 Combined
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Source: http://www.icasualties.org/oef/
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Chase Bank Orders Branch to Remove Christmas Tree
Chase Bank told a businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it could offend people. Antonio Morales, owner of Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard as a favor to the branch manager, who is one of his clients. The tree remained in the lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until Tuesday. Morales said his friend called him Wednesday to tell him the tree had to go. She later showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it. The bank referred questions to corporate offices.
Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/03/chase-bank-orde...
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Waters Muddied Over Wikipedia Eligibility Spat
An attorney involved with Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign says he discussed removing from Wikipedia a listing about Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the career Army doctor facing court martial for challenging President Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief, but he did not make the decision to remove it. "I am the poster under the username 'THF' on Wikipedia," attorney Theodore "Ted" Frank told WND today. But, he said, "I was not responsible for making the decision to remove the Lakin articles from Wikipedia." The articles on Lakin, whose trial is scheduled in about two weeks, were posted in September and then again in November, but were removed each time.
Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=235813
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Nancy Pelosi is Using Government to Steal from Americans
Nancy Pelosi is either ignorant or one of the most deceitful people in government. Consider this statemement: "Giving $700 billion to the wealthiest people in America does add $700 billion dollars to the deficit. And the record and history shows and does not create jobs." Keeping the current tax rates does not "give" money to anyone. Taxation "takes" money from those who have earned the money. It's theft by government decree, and millions of people think it's OK. While most Americans would agree that stealing is wrong, they don’t seem to have a problem if someone steals for them. Consider the following: If John has a financial need, would it be right for him to rob his neighbors to supply that need? Most people would say no. Would it be right for John to get some of his friends to steal for him? Again, most people would say no. What if John convinces enough people to create a civil government that takes money from his neighbors to pay for things John and others need?
Source: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/GregHengler/2010/12/02/pelosi_u...