Project Vote has taint of ACORN By Dave Boyer The Washington Times Sunday, August 28, 2011 President Obama’s re-election campaign has appropriated for its voter-registration operation the name of an existing group, Project Vote, that has been the target of voter-fraud complaints tied to the much-criticized and now-defunct activist group ACORN. “It’s astonishing,” said Thomas [...]

By David Malpass Published August 28, 2011 FoxNews.com There was at least something to like in Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech. He didn’t hint at using the Federal Reserve’s open-ended power to buy up the national debt, so-called QE3, as he had in his year-earlier speech. Regarding monetary policy tools, he went no [...]

Published August 28, 2011 Associated Press SARASOTA –  Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in the Everglades if it can be done without harming the environment. Bachman said the United States needs to tap into all of its energy resources no matter where they exist [...]

Published August 29, 2011 Associated Press The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain was spreading in Asia. A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defenses of existing vaccines, [...]

Published August 29, 2011 Associated Press BEIJING –  Footage of a Chinese general discussing sensitive spying cases has been leaked onto video sharing site YouTube, in what appears to be an embarrassing failure of secrecy for the usually tightlipped military. It wasn’t clear when or where Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan made the comments and China’s [...]

Published August 29, 2011 FoxNews.com As President Obama prepares his jobs plan speech, he’s also filling out his economics team, preparing to nominate Princeton University’s Alan Krueger to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.  Krueger, 50, a labor specialist who served in Obama’s Treasury Department in the first two years of [...]

By AMY BINGHAM Aug. 29, 2011 As if dismal economic growth, high unemployment and impending natural disasters weren’t enough to dampen President Obama’s vacation, the nation’s largest labor union has announced that it will scale back support of the Democratic Party for the 2012 elections. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said Thursday that the union will [...]

By Ann Saphir and Mark Felsenthal Reuters – Sat, Aug 27, 2011 JACKSON HOLE, Wyo (Reuters) – The new head of the IMF on Saturday called on global policymakers to pursue urgent action, including forcing European banks to bulk up their capital, to prevent a descent into a renewed world recession. “Developments this summer have [...]

Published: 11:18 AM 08/28/2011 One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore. In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky broadcast on UStream on Friday, Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists [...]

By William Selway and Timothy R. Homan – Aug 28, 2011 9:00 PM PT Forecasters overestimated the strength of Hurricane Irene even as they accurately predicted the direction and timing of the storm’s destructive path along the U.S. East Coast. “This was one of their better forecasts,” Hans Graber, a professor of marine physics at [...]