The move involves Senate leadership holding "pro-forma" sessions of the Senate every Monday and Friday to prevent Obama from filling vacant senior federal positions. By holding sessions every few days, Obama can't slip his nominees through.
The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.
Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman today found herself battling allegations that she knowingly employed an undocumented immigrant housekeeper, failed to pay a portion of her wages and then fired her in an act of political damage control.
The charges come a little over a month before the November election.
My brother in law, Jose Tamayo & his friend Alvaro Rossel Pardón were traveling to Oxapampa, Peru. They are considered officially missing, last seen on Sunday Sept 19th. Please keep my nephew Jose Luis and Alvaro’s children in your prayers as they search for their parents. Thank you
More than 75 episodes of Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica as well as Destination Truth and Eureka will now be available on the service, as well as the USA series Psych, In Plain Sight and Monk. This also renews the deal to distribute past seasons of 30 Rock, The Office and Saturday Night Live. And big news on the latter show: New SNL episodes will be available on Netflix the day after broadcast for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Gibbs lamented the Republican filibuster that stopped the measure, saying that "60 is the new 50, and I don't mean age."
I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. [...]
One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.
John Rowland will join a long list of former politicians and political operatives in the media when he begins a daily show on WTIC AM radio.
Rowland, and his minister friend, Pastor Will Marrotti apparently passed the audition back in July and will begin co-hosting the 3 to 6 p.m. time slot Thursday in an issue oriented talk show called “Church and State.”
He says he has great empathy for Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez and what his family is now facing following his sentencing on corruption Tuesday. But says his indiscretions and those of Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim were really much worse than his.
Someone selling a home for $500,000, for example, would have to pay the original developer $5,000. If the home sold again two years later for $750,000, the second seller would have to pony up $7,500 to the developer, and so on. Even if a home declines in value, the seller still must pay the 1 percent fee.
"told TPM that his ultimate political vision was to expand the GOP to encompass the louder, more extreme factions of the party."
Both in-game events involve players of all levels, but only those between 75 and 80 will be able to take part in the final push to reclaim territory before World of Warcraft's next expansion pack, Cataclysm, is released before the end of the year.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about race, politics and the South that I've ever heard. Ever.
He has the gall to try to portray Southern Republicans as having been enlightened supporters of the civil rights movement all along. I can't decide whether this exercise in rewriting history should be described as cynical or sinister. Whichever it is, the record has to be set straight
Along with all the music related iPod announcements made by Apple today, they also revealed the next generation Apple TV. At first I was amazed by the small size, ability to stream Netflix, and more. I then took a deeper look into the functionality for the $99 Apple TV and discovered I already had that and more in the cheaper Roku HD and don’t know why I would want to buy an Apple TV instead.
The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archives.
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