Michael Klare, Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet
So when Netanyahu ratchets down the threats to Iran (that is, the promise of even greater chaos in the oil heartlands of the planet), he potentially does the same with oil prices. If the Saudis. In the Wall Street Journal he crowed, ���The United States has become the fastest-growing oil and gas producer in the world, and is likely to remain so for the rest of this decade and into the 2020s.��� Once this... Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges?
Voter Engagement Gap Hints at GOP Turnout Edge - Roll Call
Democratic voters are less interested in the elections than Republicans, according to survey results released over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal, NBC News and the Annenberg Public Policy Center. The poll found that while all registered voters. It found that, overall, voters have thought less about the elections, are less motivated to vote and are less enthusiastic about their choices than in the previous two midterms. But the Republican numbers on all three��.
Europes Anti-Immigrant Parties Stand to Gain Ground in Wake of Paris Attacks
���Will Horobin in Paris and Giada Zampano and Liam Moloney in Rome contributed to this article. Write to Matthew Karnitschnig at matthew.karnitschnig@wsj.com, Anton Troianovski at anton.troianovski@wsj.com and Jenny Gross at jenny.gross@wsj.com.
In State of the Union, Obama Makes Middle-Class Pitch
Some 46% of Americans approved of Mr. Obamas job performance in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released this week, up from 40% in September. But despite economic growth and a drop in the unemployment rate, anxiety among middle-class .
Commentary Regarding Netanyahu and His Address. Bibis.
Radical Muslim extremists are terrorizing the world, slaughtering Christians and he and his feckless Sec of State seem ready to allow Iran to gain nuclear status and/or be within a blink of same. This terrorist state has killed our Marines,.. Yet in the Wall Street Journal of February 19, Secretary of State Kerry effectively wrote that this redundant anti-terrorism conference was the core of the American response to all these outrages. Various subterfuges and feints have��.
ISIS Attacks Iraqi Base Used by US Trainers
WASHINGTON���Islamic State militants wearing Iraqi military uniforms and suicide vests attacked an Iraqi air base where U.S. military advisers are training Iraqs security forces, the most direct attack on a base used by U.S. forces since the current.
A Nonprofit Restaurant Falls to the Minimum Wage
More than two dozen states and cities raised their minimum wages on Jan. 1. Its well-established in the economic literature, if not in the minds of proponents of these laws, that the result will be job losses. Yet this empirical reality fails to.
Netanyahus Approval Ratings Sink
. term, according to a public-opinion poll published on Sunday. The declining numbers reflect bickering among Mr. Netanyahus coalition partners, which has brought the government to the edge of dissolution and early elections, Israeli political.
Sic Semper Tyrannis : ME Diary - 14 August 2014
The White House has instructed the Pentagon and the U.S. military to put on hold a transfer of Hellfire missiles that Israel had requested during its recent operation in the Gaza Strip, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the report, during Israels Operation Protective Edge, White House officials were dismayed to discover how little influence they wield over US shipments of munitions to Israel against the backdrop of the U.S. governments unhappiness with the��.
The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street | BillMoyers.com
. heritage to gain ���an edge in hiring.��� Zywickis withering arguments against financial reform have earned him guest columns in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times and on The New York Timess website.
If Corporations Are People, They Should Act Like It
By their count, sixteen states and nearly 600 localities have endorsed some kind of anti-personhood amendment. Even in a.. Corporations cannot vote or serve on juries, for example; it does not make any sense to think of corporations asserting those.
On the Road to Putinlandia
He listens as survivors recount the hellish whistle of the rocket, the women returning from the market who were mowed down by the deluge of pellets, the panic in the streets as people rushed for shelter, tripping over bodies, the brave mother who.
Romney In National Polls Overtaking Obama By Narrow.
The HuffPost Pollster tracking model, which combines both national and statewide polls, gives Romney a slight edge in the estimated national popular vote (47.3 percent to 46.9 percent) as of this writing (the estimates update each day. Another Marist/NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in Nevada gives Obama a 3 percentage point advantage (50 percent to 47 percent), just slightly lower than the tracking models current estimate of a 3.3 percent lead (49.6 percent to 46.3��.
Overnight News Digest: Greek Election Results Edition
In a result that exceeded analysts expectations, Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliament, just two short of an absolute majority, with most of the votes counted on Sunday... Department has been secretly gathering and storing hundreds of millions of records about motorists in an effort to build a national database that tracks the movement of vehicles across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Belgium Antiterror Raid Leaves Two Suspects Dead
BRUSSELS���Belgian police killed two people in a firefight on Thursday evening, disrupting what authorities called an imminent terrorist plot just a week after Islamist extremists set Europe on edge with massacres in Paris. The plot. Hundreds have.
Super Tuesday Results - Huffington Post
The day after Super Tuesday, less than 100 votes separated Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, four precincts were still out and more than 16,000 ballots remained to be counted. With 180 of 184.. As The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, Obamas campaign made the caucus states a central focus of their Feb. 5 strategy.. Hillary Clinton in New York (142-90) as producing a fifteen delegate net gain in the candidates home state match-up. In addition��.
The Early Word: Weather Advisory - NYTimes.com
Netanyahu May Gain Only a Fleeting Lift From His Speech, Experts Say.. The Wall Street Journal says the Democrats ���have ratcheted up their antitrade, anticorporate rhetoric,��� and are attacking those same corporate tax cuts that wouldnt be out of the question under a McCain presidency.. Juan Hinojosas heavily Hispanic Senate district in the Rio Grande Valley, Clinton could win an overwhelming majority of votes but gain only a small edge in delegates. At the��.
Israels Minister Without Apologies
But Jewish Home is polling well, and Mr. Bennett is being talked about as a likely foreign or finance minister in the next coalition government, assuming its still led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party. Should a. The other.
Boehner battle sets up another bust
The votes just arent there. A similar effort to unseat Boehner came to a clattering end in 2013, and the speaker has more clout now. With Republicans in control of the Senate, Boehners friendship is more valuable to ambitious members who would like.
Dubais Real-Estate Moguls Bet on Another Property Boom
DUBAI���Real-estate mogul Safi Qurashi is often asked why he has stayed in Dubai after he was imprisoned here for nearly three years and came close to losing his entire business. ���Why should I leave?��� The 45-year-old Briton says. ���Dubai is still full of .
#47traitors trends in response to Republican open letter to Iran
The Wall Street Journal is. the Wall Street Journal, but it editorialized that The problem with the GOP letter is that its a distraction from what should be the main political goal of persuading the American people. Its not just... also apply to all the Democrats in congress who voted to participate in the shaming g of our President by Natanyaho and the Republicans. Bibi was... You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after theyve tried everything else.
US Consumer Prices Unchanged in October
Falling energy prices held overall inflation in check last month, offering relief to consumers squeezed by tepid wage gains and rising costs for food and housing. The consumer-price index, which measures how much Americans pay for everything from pet.
Speech fallout: Liz Warren wont say if shes going, and.
This is the official position of the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington, AIPAC, as well, which is why its leaders are privately fuming about Netanyahus end-run around the White House.. But the income gains all go to the top 1%.. Venture capitalist Tom Perkins, founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, provoked a similar outcry earlier this year with a letter to the Wall Street Journal that compared criticism of the wealthy to Nazi persecution of the��.
Netanyahus visit and its precedents ��� Mondoweiss
Haaretz has reported that Benjamin Netanyahu in 2007 offered to join a coalition government with Ehud Olmert on the condition that Olmert launch an attack against Iran. Recall: just.. Here are the links to Cameras effort to shut down the debate on C-Spans Washington Journal... ���LEWIS: When you look back at what happened, there was so much propaganda in the air, it was this kind of collective thing, group think on Wall Street, this all was OK, this business.
Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief
The specifics came four days later in an announcement that blindsided officials at the FCC. Mr. Obama said the Internet should be overseen as a public utility, with the ���strongest possible rules��� forcing broadband providers such as ATandT Inc. and.
The House GOP expected wave. So far, none in sight
Tepid fundraising, underperforming candidates and a lousy party brand are threatening to deprive House Republicans of the sweeping 2014 gains that some top party officials have been predicting this year. Thats the. A Wall Street Journal analysis of fundraising reports due at the Federal Election Commission Tuesday of the top candidates in the 54 House contests considered to be the most competitive, as determined by the Rothenberg Political Report, shows that��.
Four Officials Out in Secret Service Shakeup
Change is necessary to gain a fresh perspective on how we conduct business, said Clancy in a statement. I am certain.. And two, its possible that Netanyahu could lose in the short-term today (coming in second) but still win in the end (by being.
Boeing Weighs Options to Reprise Aging 757s
Boeing Co.s next new jetliner could be a version of an old one it stopped making a decade ago. Facing the slow-but-steady erosion of its market-share dominance, Boeing is weighing whether to replace the 757, a mid-sized jet the aerospace giant.
HUFFPOLLSTER: Have Polls Been Understating Dems.
440 �� Israels Netanyahu Says Palestinian State Will Not Be Established On His Watch 1000 �� HES BACK!.. [Politico]. New Hampshire Senate - A new automated New England College poll is the first since mid-September to find Scott Brown (R) ahead, with a 1-point edge over incumbent Sen. Jeanne. Potential for unexpected results Janet Hook: Pollsters for both parties who conducted the [NBC/WSJ] survey predict Republican gains in the House and Senate.
Election Other - 2014 Generic Congressional Vote - Real.
Jon Voight Backs Netanyahu in New Ad: Obama Does Not Love Israel �� Baltimore Suns Zurawik:. 2014 Generic Congressional Vote. 2010 Midterm Polls | 2006 Midterm Polls | 2002 Midterm Polls. Polling Data. Poll, Date, Sample, Republicans (R), Democrats (D), Spread. Final Results, --, --, 51.4. 43.2, Republicans +2.4. NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl, 10/30 - 11/1, 826 LV, 48, 48, Tie... The Racializing of American Politics - Daniel Henninger, Wall St. Journal. - How Can the GOP Win?
HUFFPOLLSTER: Battleground Polling Shows Edge For GOP
With a little over a week before Americans vote, polls continue to tip to a Republican Senate majority. Disapproval of Congressional Democrats grows. And at least 7.6 million Americans have already voted. This is HuffPollster for Monday, October 27, 2014.
HUFFPOLLSTER: Battleground Polling Shows Edge For GOP
HuffPollsters poll tracking model, based on all public polls, had shown Republican prospects increasing gradually throughout the fall in six of the battleground states -- Louisiana, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire -- but over the past two weeks the probability of a Republican win... Lets not count our chickens before they hatch.. US Right Direction Wrong Track - Wrong Track 61%, Right Direction 34% (NBC News/Wall Street Journal 2/25-2/28).