Nov 7 2010

Top Marine Wants to Keep Ban on Gays While Afghan War Rages

The new commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps says the don’t ask, don’t tell policy barring gays from serving openly in the military should stay in place while the nation remains in the heat of war in Afghanistan. “There’s risk involved. I’m trying to measure that risk,” Gen. James Amos said in an Associated Press [...]


Sep 24 2010

Obama Heckled by AIDS Activists While Campaigning in New York City

President Obama was heckled and interrupted by gay activists — shouting “broken promises” and “fund AIDS” — during a campaign-style speech in New York where he was raising money for the Democratic Party. The president told his critics — a handful in an audience of several hundred at a midtown Manhattan hotel — that the [...]


Aug 29 2010

Ronald Reagan Honored While Conservatives Wait for Glenn Beck

While Glenn Beck has said his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial is not political, the after-party might be. At a “tribute to Ronald Reagan” dinner on Friday night, Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, invited all present to a town hall featuring members of Congress at the Washington monument after Beck’s event. “The left [...]


Aug 20 2010

Obama Makes More Recess Appointments While Washington Vacations

With the Senate on summer break, President Obama is making four more recess appointments, rolling out Cabinet officers and an ambassador nominee, a group the White House said waited an average of 303 days — in vain — for confirmation. “At a time when our nation faces so many pressing challenges, I urge members of [...]


Aug 4 2010

Michelle Obama, Sasha on Lavish Vacation While President Turns 49

Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha, 9 left President Obama to celebrate his 49th birthday Wednesday without them — they are vacationing at a lavish resort in Spain. The first lady and her entourage landed at Malaga, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, at 10:30 a.m. local time Wednesday. There is enormous interest in the trip — her [...]


Jul 25 2010

States’ Rights: While Yankees Snoozed

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