All quiet in the Gulf Friday. An oil platform fire that forced 13 workers to abandon the huge facility in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday was safely extinguished and there was no sign of oil in the water. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough told the New Orleans Times-Picayune a helicopter flyover would double-check the [...]
Kristi Noem, the Republican nominee challenging incumbent Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin for South Dakota’s only House seat, is under fire after local news reporters unearthed her lengthy record of driving violations. Noem, 38, is widely considered to be one of the GOP’s strongest candidates this year. She was recently featured in a front page Washington [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner wants heads to roll over the sorry state of the American economy. And they’re Democratic heads. In a speech today to the City Club of Cleveland, Boehner will call on the president to clean house among his economic advisers. “President Obama should ask for, and accept, the resignations of the [...]
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele backed away from comments putting the onus for the Afghanistan war on President Obama — and suggesting it may be unwinnable — but two more leading Republicans piled on the embattled party chief on Saturday. In a clarification statement Friday, Steele said Obama had “shifted his focus” from Iraq to [...]
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