The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting plan that will close nearly 250 mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri on Thursday urged Saudis to rise up against the kingdom’s ruling Al-Saud family, suggesting they draw inspiration from uprisings that have deposed leaders across the Middle East and Africa in the past year and a half. Speaking in a video clip that was posted on an Islamist website, Zawahri, who took over the leadership of al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan just over a year ago, said: “Muslim brothers in the land of the holy mosques, a year has passed since the uprising of the Arab people against their rulers… …
Hello, human diary. Mitt here.
There was a brief kerfluffle today when a fellow wealthy American (a sports team owner, as many of my acquaintances are) was purported to be considering re-launching old 2008 attacks on Barack Obama involving the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who I understand to be a bad person—even though he is religious, which is a bit confusing, since normally all religious individuals are by definition good and correct. I believe I have diffused the situation with my response: I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described. (I am quite pleased with myself for formulating it in this efficient matter, as now I shall be able to use the precise same wording for any number of future incidents throughout the campaign.)
I am currently quite irritated, Mr. Diary, with the campaign of character assassination against me. I have always attempted to campaign in a generally positive way, although there have been many times in which I have repudiated the effort by a PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described. Generally, I have avoided speaking at all whenever possible, but during the debates I was always careful to say only positive things about President Obama. I think the videotapes will indicate the accuracy of this statement, and if they do not than I repudiate the efforts by those videotapes to promote a strategy of the nature they have described. Nonetheless, the opposing campaigns have consistently attempted to portray me in a negative fashion, which is unfair.
I think it only proper that no campaign should be allowed to bring up my past record or behaviors when I was in school, or when I was a businessman, or when I was a governor. Bringing up past actions on my part is nothing more than character assassination. My opponents should be required to limit their discussions to things I have done only during this particular campaign; also, my opponents should not be allowed to bring up things I may have said or done during this campaign. I strongly repudiate their strategies that are of the nature they have described.
Today, I visited New Hampshire once again, where I briefly bantered with the local commoners at the Sawyer Bridge, in Hillsborough. It is a very picturesque stone bridge, and is of significant historical interest. I understand that this bridge received over $150,000 in stimulus monies in order to effect repairs, however; this seems imprudent. It is true that the bridge is quite picturesque, but I think it would be equally picturesque as a pile of rubble. And rubble also has economic value, does it not?
I have asked Eric F. to draft an ad campaign around the idea that Barack Obama is anti-rubble, and that these “stimulus” efforts are unacceptably standing in the way of the rubble industry. It is doubtful we will be able to promote such an advertisement ourselves because of my unrelentingly positive nature, but I am certain one of our supporting PACs will be able to use the idea, upon which I shall repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described.
Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama’s overwhelming cash advantage.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful “die in” on Thursday at President Barack Obama’s election campaign headquarters to demand an end to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas. Despite calling ahead, some of the roughly 50 protesters said they were unable to deliver a letter to the Obama campaign calling for the United States to leave NATO and its “violent mission of protecting the 1 percent in the global economy who represent 99 percent of corporate wealth in the world. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will suspend sanctions barring American investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms, but will retain the laws to ensure against backsliding, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday. “Today we say to American business: invest in Burma and do it responsibly,” Clinton said during an appearance with Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, who was on a first official U.S. visit in decades as ties between the two countries warm rapidly. Clinton said the United States would issue a general license to permit U.S. …
The Nebraska billionaire who considered a plan to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama’s former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
Using unlimited donations and spending money on TV ads in races across the country, Super PACS played a prominent role in helping the Republicans win control of the House in 2010. This year Democrats, who initially condemned Super PACs, are joining the fray with their own.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he’s not afraid to lose the recall election he faces in less than three weeks, but if he wins he intends to govern in a more inclusive, consensus-building way.