Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against targets inside Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told NBC News. It’s believed the primary target was a shipment of weapons headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, they said. A senior U.S. official said the airstrikes were believed to be [...]
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Joe Manchin: “We Will Not Get the Votes Today” [Video]
Perhaps helping explain Democrats’ problems, an AP-GfK poll this month showed that 49 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws. That was down from 58 percent who said so in January — a month after the December killings of 20 children and six aides at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school propelled gun violence into a [...]
BREAKING: Two Explosions Detonate at Boston Marathon Finish Line [VIDEO] *Updated*
Video at moment of explosions. From NY Times, “Many Injured in Blasts Near End of Boston Marathon,” though HuffPo reports that neither public or race officials have yet provided an estimate of the number of or extent of injuries. Original Post Via NPR: Two apparent explosions have rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon. [...]
Top Story — President Obama Happy to “Own” Chained CPI Cuts in his Budget
“Paul Ryan, in the worst budget ever presented in the history of the United States, did not mention Social Security, so of course [President Obama] owns it,” Sanders said as he left a rally outside the White House, where he and a handful of congressional Democrats, Social Security advocates, and labor leaders denounced Social Security [...]
Top Story — Conservative Giant Margaret Thatcher Passes After Stroke *Updated*
“I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.” – Baroness Margaret Thatcher THE NEWS came as a thunder clap from Great Britain. “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning. A further statement will be made later.” – Lord Bell The tweets [...]
Maureen Dowd’s “Hillsteria” Derangement
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been [...]
Top Story — Obama Moves Grand Bargain Into the Budget, and Women Will Be Hurt the Most
“You can’t call yourself a Democrat and support Social Security benefit cuts. The president is proposing to steal thousands of dollars from grandparents and veterans by cutting cost of living adjustments, and any congressional Democrat who votes for such a plan should be ready for a primary challenge. Social Security is the core of the [...]
Movie Lovers Will Miss Roger Ebert
“No good film is too long,” he once wrote, a sentiment he felt strongly enough about to have engraved on pens. “No bad movie is short enough.” – Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer AFTER READING what turned out to be his very last post he happened to write yesterday, I sent [...]
Susan Patton Revives “MRS. Degree” for Princeton Female Students
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.” – Susan Patton’s Marriage Advice for College Women THERE ARE way too many well-educated, well-meaning professional women these days giving relationship advice that simply don’t [...]
News Desk — CNN: Caroline Kennedy Asked by Obama to be U.S. Ambassador to Japan
THE NEWS has been rumored for weeks. Caroline Kennedy has been asked to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan and is being vetted for the post, a Democrat familiar with the discussions told CNN on Monday. [CNN]
News Desk: Big Victory for Liberals and Labor in New York
New York City is poised to mandate that thousands of companies provide paid time off for sick employees, bolstering a national movement that has been resisted by wary business leaders. [New York Times] BILL LIPTON and “a raw display of political muscle by a coalition of labor unions and liberal activists,” as the Times described [...]
Top Story — Queer Talk: Marriage Equality Day in Court, Prop 8 Focus *UPDATED*
UPDATE III Press release from Freedom to Marry: Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. The Court is considering whether Proposition 8 violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Enacted in [...]
News Desk: Amanda Knox Eviscerates Italian Decision to Retry Murder Case
AFTER TAKING four years of her life in an Italian prison, the decision to retry Amanda Knox for murder enraged her, as she vows to fight on. “It was painful to receive the news that the Italian Supreme Court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution’s theory of my involvement in [...]
Obama in the Middle East, aka “Operation Desert Schmooze” [Photobomb - Video]
… Any serious analysis of Obama’s policies must begin with his pragmatism. That’s how he functioned throughout his political career, and especially over the last four years. Despite his vision of change, he is a realist to the core. He sounds like an idealist but leads pragmatically. [...] Be that as it may, Obama’s visit [...]
News Desk: Marine Kills Two at Quantico, Then Kills Himself
THERE are few places where the military is held in higher esteem than the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. From Reuters: A Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base in Quantico, Virginia, then killed himself, the Marines said on Friday. The shootings took place late on Thursday near the officer candidate [...]
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