Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: Photoonist- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:58:59 GMT Tanah Karo ' Villagers briefly returned home on Tuesday to check their farms along the fertile slopes of an Indonesian volcano that erupted after being dormant for more than four centuries. (Snip) Sinabung last erupted in 1600, and officials acknowledged they had not been monitoring the volcano because it had been inactive for so long, meaning they know next to nothing about its eruption patterns. "We were totally in the dark," said Imam Simulingga, a government volcanologist

Mediaite, by Glynnis MacNicol Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:52:44 GMT Fox and Friends Gretchen Carlson interviewed Press Sec. Robert Gibbs earlier this morning ahead of President Obama’s speech on Iraq tonight, and whoah. Things got contentious pretty quickly. You can watch the back and forth below but things turned south when Carlson asked Gibbs whether Obama was planning on explaining his ‘flip flop’ on the surge tonight, and Gibbs responded: Gretchen, I’m happy to spend a lot of time looking back at decisions that were made four years ago or even seven and a half years ago…I think what’s important,

Weekly Standard, by Mary Katharine Ham Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:48:01 GMT Never before has there been such a candidate of integrity, moral certitude, and iron spine: Gov. Charlie Crist is not joining his rivals for the U.S. Senate, Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek, this Sunday on MSNBC's "Meet the Press.'' "The governor has long planned Labor Day events, when he'll be out talking to working families,'' said Crist spokesman Danny Kanner. Crist and Rubio last met in a public debate in March on Fox News Sunday. And, what would any Crist story be without a flip'flop?

Washington Times, by William Ochan Levi Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:42:13 GMT Like others who call this great nation home, I am trou' bled by the plans to build a mosque next to Ground Zero. As one who immigrated from Sudan, I have plenty of reasons to be. Let me tell you why. In 1983, the government of Sudan imposed Shariah law on the entire country, including the Christians of southern Sudan. Soon I, a southern Sudanese Christian, began to see the effects, including the confiscation of land, destruction of churches, forced conversion to Islam, raping of women and severing of limbs for violating

Washington Times, by Randy Stilley Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:38:38 GMT Now that the Gulf oil spill has come under control, the spotlight is bound soon to shift away from the Gulf of Mexico. Yet one unsolved problem related to the spill continues to haunt residents dependent on the region's energy'driven economy: The government has failed to resume timely approval of permits for extracting natural gas from the Gulf's shallow waters. Unlike for deep'water activity in the Gulf, there is no actual moratorium on the Gulf's shallow'water operations. Nevertheless, the permit'approval process for drilling these mature and reliable reservoirs has ground to a virtual halt

National Review, by Peter Kirsanow Posted By: Judy W.- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:36:41 GMT The administration’s report to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights is disgraceful for reasons beyond simple enumeration. Not only does it read like a high school term paper based on a Howard Zinn textbook, but it also conflates America’s human rights successes with Obama hagiography. The Obama administration has no obligation to participate in the activities of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, the antecedent of which was responsible for such anti'American and anti'Israel travesties such as the Durban Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

Newsbusters, by Geoffrey Dickens Posted By: Photoonist- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:25:29 GMT On the day that the U.S. is ending combat operations in Iraq, the Today show, on Tuesday, brought on their chief foreign correspondent to essentially say the Iraq war wasn't worth it. The noted anti'war reporter, when asked by Today co'anchor Ann Curry did, "Anything positive come from this war?" proceeded to dump on the entire mission as he relayed that Iraqis are upset that the United States "has failed to deliver on its promises," claimed that Saddam Hussein, before the war, was "getting more moderate" and concluded that the mission was "a giant distraction of resources" and if not

Newsbusters, by Brad Wilmouth Posted By: Photoonist- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:21:47 GMT Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, during a discussion of conservative talker Glenn Beck’s "Restoring Honor" rally, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson dismissed Dr. Alveda King – niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and former Georgia state representative – as a "figurehead or puppet" of Beck because of her scheduled participation in the rally. And, even though she and her father took part in the Civil Rights Movement and even endured having her home bombed in the 1960s, Robinson went on to suggest that she really is not one of the "keepers of [Dr. Martin

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:19:47 GMT Sheriff Larry Dever, whose officers patrol Cochise County along the border between Arizona and Mexico, said he finds it “amazing” that the U.S. State Department would refer the recently passed immigration law in his state to the United Nations Human Rights Council for review. “Well, it’s just amazing to me,” Dever told CNSNews.com. “Course, I have about as much regard for the U.N. as I do the vermin that hides in the rocks around my house here and reaches out and tries to bite me every now and then.” The Bush administration refused to join the U.N. Human Rights Council,

Ricochet.com, by George Savage Posted By: phoebemoses- Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:10:07 GMT "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan, August 15, 1986. There’s a lot that isn’t moving in the United States right now and government money is flowing like water in this Recovery Summer. But who knew that under Barack Obama similar subsidies would be extended to mosque maintenance in foreign lands? Caroline May at the Daily Caller reports: Wide Headline split by Lcom Staff