Friday, July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. House panel gave a nod to a public healthcare insurance option, voting to defeat a Republican effort to strip the bill of a government-run plan. By a 35-24 vote Thursday, and amid Republican criticism, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pushed... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Your Turn
What are your thoughts on the CNN documentary, "Black In America 2"? Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sotomayor defends Latina comments
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor faced tough questions Tuesday about gun rights, abortion and her past statements regarding race and gender. On the the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination to the nation's highest court,... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Hero Stephen Johns foiled Holocaust Museum massacre
By MARTIN SIEFF Published: June 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- It took until he was 88 years old, but James von Brunn finally got his heart's desire to kill an innocent black man. He still went out a failure when he expressed his terrorist outrage at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Obama vows peace with Islam, war with extremists
By MARTIN SIEFF Published: June 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning" in his speech Thursday at Cairo University. America "is not and never will be at war with Islam," Obama said in his speech, the second in what looks like an ongoing... Sign in to see full entry.