TALIA AND Yitzhak Ames met as students at Moscow University. They got married in 1985, and had two kids by the time they emigrated to Israel in 1991. Four more kids followed in the next 19 years, and Talia was nine months’ pregnant with their seventh when she and Yitzhak were murdered by Palestinian terrorists last week. The killers ambushed them as they were driving home Tuesday night, heading south on Highway 60 toward Beit Haggai in the Hebron Hills. ...
MADISON, Wis. — President Barack Obama hopes to improve the fortunes of suddenly imperiled Wisconsin Democrats as he celebrates Labor Day with the state’s union workers on Monday. Democrats are happy for any boost he can deliver — though his appeal has been sliding — as resurgent Republicans have two huge targets: three-term U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose defeat could help them gain control of the U.S. Senate, and the governor’s office, which is open for ...
Democrats pounced Friday on a top Republican’s suggestion he knew of plenty of spending to cut in order to pay for the extension of high-end tax cuts.If Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) thinks he can identify $700 billion in cuts to offset the costs of extending Bush tax cuts, Democrats said, he should specify where.”If veterans are going to have to give up their benefits to pay for the Republican leadership’s tax breaks for the richest 2 percent of Americans, then ...
Republicans are on track to control approximately 30 governor seats after the Nov. 2 election, according to the FiveThirtyEight gubernatorial forecasting model. And they are likely to do particularly well in the swing says of the Midwest. Such an outcome would reverse the current say of the nation’s governors’ mansions, which are now held by 26 Democrats, 23 Republicans and 1 independent. Thirty-seven says are holding elections for governor this year; an unusually high ...
(Best of the tube tonight: We’ll be on “Hannity” as part of the “Great American Panel.” Tune in at 9 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel, with a repeat showing at midnight ET. The panel is in the second half-hour. Sorry to those who tuned in yesterday; we were pre-empted by hurricane coverage.) Now we have seen everything. In an editorial today, the New York Times denounces New Yorkers. Wait, it’s even more bizarre than that description makes it sound. ...
>>> taking a watch of the rose garden at the white house . new economic numbers out this morning, president with his economic team just getting out of a meeting. let’s listen to the president. >> good morning, everybody. as we head into labor day weekend , i know many people across this country are concerned about what the future holds for themselves, for their families and for the economy, as a whole.
As you will recall I’ve written previously about liberals and despair, earlier in the summer. But I’ve been thinking about this anew lately, because, well, the situation has if anything gotten worse. Most liberal despair is expressed toward Obama. He hasn’t done this, he messed up on that. Since people on the left are by nature anti-authority and more likely than people on the right are to turn on people they admire once those people have power, this is understandable. ...
From NBC’s Pete Williams In an atmosphere of tension between the federal government and Arizona, the Justice Department this day dialed it up some more, filing a lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — accusing him, the county, and his office with failing to cooperate with a civil rights investigation of his office. The Justice Department has been investigating allegations that the sheriff’s office has engaged in discrimination against Hispanics. As a recipient of federal funds, the sheriff’s office ...
Governors in the U.S. do not usually brawl, but this year seems to be the exception. When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proudly scheduled a two-day sales-tax holiday for his citizens this month, just in time for back-to-school shopping, Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire punched back with a reminder that New Hampshire levies no sales tax at all. To rub it in, Governor Lynch traveled to Baron’s Major Brands, an appliance retailer located practically within inches of the Massachusetts say ...
>> president’s speech in a moment. charlie, i want to ask you about the midterms you are writing this day saying the calvary doesn’t appear to be coming from the democrats. >> they needed so many things to happen. they needed unemployment to come down, attitudes towards health care reform to change, they needed to sort of seize control of the agenda and stabilize things in washington .