Investor's Business Daily, by Ed Carson Posted By: slyscribe- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:20:02 GMT House Minority Leader John Boehner, R'Ohio, may be up for a promotion, assuming polls are correct. So what would Speaker Boehner do? He gave a few clues during a speech Thursday at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Los Angeles Times, by Joe Flint Posted By: Sloopy- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:13:31 GMT Anderson Cooper, the CNN newsman who has often tried to walk the fine line between serious journalist and television personality, is going to take a day job to complement his evening gig. Telepictures, the syndication unit of Warner Bros., has signed Cooper for a new talk show it plans on launching in the fall of 2011, just when Oprah Winfrey leaves the airwaves for her new cable network OWN.

Gallup News, by Frank Newport Posted By: Desert Fox- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:11:57 GMT PRINCETON, NJ '' If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to challenge President Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012, she would currently have the support of 37% of Democrats nationally, while 52% would support Obama. NBC's "Meet the Press" host David Gregory on Sept. 5 raised the possibility that Clinton might renew her battle against Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, asking outside White House adviser David Plouffe, "Do you envision a primary challenge from another Democrat in 2012 against this president?" Gregory then asked more specifically, "Do you '' can you rule out,

Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: DSchneider- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:05:56 GMT Humorist Garrison Keillor says Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is embarrassing to Minnesota. Keillor made the comment about the tea party favorite in a fundraising appeal for Bachmann's Democratic rival, state Sen. Tarryl (TEHR''uhl) Clark. The "Prairie Home Companion" host says, "it's embarrassing to me and a great many Minnesotans" that Bachmann represents the state in Washington.

FoxNews.com, by Staff Posted By: Pistolpete- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:02:28 GMT What do mariachi classes, wine studies and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have in common? They were all funded by federal Department of Education earmarks, according to an extensive new report released Thursday by Sen. Tom Coburn. The Oklahoma Republican, in a study called "School House Pork," is urging the federal government to suspend these education "slush funds" after finding that lawmakers have secured 5,563 such earmarks, worth $2.3 billion over the past decade.

National Geographic Daily News, by Brian Handwerk Posted By: Sloopy- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:58:30 GMT New Zealand's native'bird BO is so pungent, it's alerting predators to the birds' presence, ongoing research shows. The smells may drive some species to extinction, unless conservationists take unorthodox measures, such as adding "deodorant" to bird nests, according to biologist Jim Briskie of Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Bloomberg News, by Peter Robison & Gopal Ratnam Posted By: Photoonist- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:54:33 GMT Paris/Boston ' A senior manager at a company that churns out metals routinely used in U.S. smart bombs pauses in mid'sentence when his phone rings: a Wall Street stockbroker looking for information. He makes a note to have an assistant call back '' someone who is fluent in English, not just Chinese. “It’s a seller’s market now,” says Bai Baosheng, 43, puffing a cigarette in his office in Baotou, China, where his company sells bags of powder containing a metallic element known as neodymium, vital in tiny magnets that direct the fins of bombs dropped by U.S. Air Force jets

Roanoke Times [VA], by Michael Sluss Posted By: GaGardener- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:42:53 GMT RICHMOND '' With the midterm elections five weeks away and his party on the ropes, President Obama asked a small gathering of supportive Richmond'area residents Wednesday to stick with him as he tries to implement the changes he championed as a candidate in 2008. (Snip) "And no matter how much I say to them, well, this really has to do with problems that we inherited, it's not because of the emergency measures we took last year, their attitude is, 'OK, but it's still your job to solve it,' " he said.

Commentary Magazine, by Evelyn Gordon Posted By: medaura- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:33:02 GMT The Israeli media ran a mind'boggling story today: in exchange for a two'month extension of the freeze on settlement construction, Barack Obama has offered Israel various mouth'watering goodies, as Jen noted in an earlier post. Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leaning toward refusing. Obama’s offer reportedly includes the following (see here and here, for instance): support for Israel’s demand that any Israeli'Palestinian deal include a long'term Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley; a Security Council veto of any anti'Israel resolution submitted in the coming year; additional military aid; advanced weaponry; stringent measures

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Posted By: Photoonist- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:30:00 GMT US President Barack Obama has requested that Israel extend the West Bank settlement construction moratorium by two months. In return the US "will not ask for a moratorium extension beyond sixty days," according to David Makovsky from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a close associate to Dennis Ross and Obama's Middle East adviser, Army Radio reported Thursday. (Snip) The letter would commit the US to veto any UN Security Council proposal regarding the Israeli'Palestinian conflict in the coming year. In addition, Washington would not object to the request of leaving Israeli forces in the Jordan Valley for a