The American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain Posted By: jimr3- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:32:51 GMT WASILLA, Alaska '' The young lady at the desk of the Dorothy Page Museum and Visitor Center has blue hair '' not the blue'silver of advanced age, but a punk'rock razor'cut style dyed cerulean blue. (Snip) In fact, Todd can talk Alaska politics and energy issues with such a thorough mastery of details that he could easily be mistaken for a think'tank analyst, except that he's obviously not the sort of neurasthenic geek one usually finds in those policy'wonk jobs. He's a red'blooded hands'on kind of guy,

The Birmingham News, by Mary Orndorff Posted By: DaddyO- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:20:06 GMT More than 2,300 needy Alabamians working for salaries provided by federal stimulus funds probably will lose their jobs at the end of the month, if Congress does not extend one of the lesser'known provisions of the economic recovery law. Nationally, about 250,000 adults and students in 37 states have held jobs for which their employers received a federal subsidy to cover the wages, according to a Thursday report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Washington Post, by Robin Givhan Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:03:01 GMT WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton serves as further proof that women do not have to kowtow to expectations, rules of thumb or other quietly bullying cultural assumptions. She is a role model for women who are past the ingenue phase of their lives. She is making a fashion statement. Clinton, at 62, has grown out her hair. And it looks quite nice.Conventional wisdom advises that after a certain age — 50ish — women should cut their hair. It's impossible to trace this bit of advice to the first tyrant who uttered it. But over generations,

Fox News, by Greg Palkot Posted By: Scottyboy- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:01:48 GMT LONDON ' Right'wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders is in trouble again. A well'known radical Australian cleric is calling for his death by “beheading” following comments Wilders made to Australian television in which he described Islam as “retarded” and “violent.”

Bloomberg, by Jim Efstathiou Jr Posted By: loosbolt- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:56:08 GMT The blaze aboard a Mariner Energy Inc. oil platform yesterday shows President Barack Obama should maintain the drilling ban imposed after the BP Plc blowout in April, lawmakers and environmentalists said. The fire in the Gulf of Mexico “is further proof that offshore drilling is an inherently dangerous practice,” Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, said in a statement yesterday. Obama halted deep'water exploration after BP’s Macondo well exploded in April, killing 11 workers and causing the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill in history.

Politics Daily, by David Corn Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:48:34 GMT Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . .That's the sound of a time bomb on Capitol Hill that may soon explode. As the final stretch of the 2010 congressional elections is about to start '' Labor Day weekend is the traditional kickoff for campaign season '' Democrats are increasingly upset at the Obama White House. For weeks, President Obama, whether on vacation or not, has been not been publicly focusing on the only issue congressional Democrats care about: jobs. This week, Obama devoted most of his time to Iraq and the Middle East process.

Christian Science Monitor, by Dave Cook Posted By: loosbolt- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:47:57 GMT AFL'CIO President Richard Trumka charged Thursday that if Republican political star Sarah Palin is not more careful in her choice of words, the political movement she has helped to create will be linked with McCarthyism, the 1950s'era crusade by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to brand political enemies as communists. Mr. Trumka’s comments about his strained relations with Ms. Palin came at a Monitor'sponsored breakfast for reporters, where he was asked how his previous critical words about the 2008 GOP vice'presidential nominee squared with his call for union members to save their anger for “corporate lapdogs” and Senate Republicans.

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Shane D'Aprile Posted By: Scottyboy- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:42:17 GMT President Obama will campaign with Rep. Joe Sestak (D'Pa.) later this month, the candidate the White House publicly opposed during the Democratic primary earlier this year. Sestak, who's locked in a tough Senate race with former Rep. Pat Toomey (R'Pa) will appear with the president in Philadelphia on September 20. (Snip)The White House backed Sen. Arlen Specter (D'Pa.) in the Democratic primary. Obama campaigned and raised money for Specter in his race against Sestak.

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Shane D'Aprile Posted By: Scottyboy- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:42:17 GMT President Obama will campaign with Rep. Joe Sestak (D'Pa.) later this month, the candidate the White House publicly opposed during the Democratic primary earlier this year. Sestak, who's locked in a tough Senate race with former Rep. Pat Toomey (R'Pa) will appear with the president in Philadelphia on September 20. (Snip)The White House backed Sen. Arlen Specter (D'Pa.) in the Democratic primary. Obama campaigned and raised money for Specter in his race against Sestak.

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Shane D'Aprile Posted By: Scottyboy- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:42:17 GMT President Obama will campaign with Rep. Joe Sestak (D'Pa.) later this month, the candidate the White House publicly opposed during the Democratic primary earlier this year. Sestak, who's locked in a tough Senate race with former Rep. Pat Toomey (R'Pa) will appear with the president in Philadelphia on September 20. (Snip)The White House backed Sen. Arlen Specter (D'Pa.) in the Democratic primary. Obama campaigned and raised money for Specter in his race against Sestak.