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President Obama's secretary of health and human services fired off a sharply worded letter to a California insurer Monday, demanding to know why it is raising rates for individual policyholders by as much as 39 percent. Anthem Blue Cross of California's decision set off a furor among many Anthem policyholders, prompting California insurance commissioner Steve Poizner, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, to say that his department was investigating the increases.
Source: Washington Post
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Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a powerful and controversial force in congressional spending on defense, died Monday at age 77.
Source: Wall-Street Journal
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's nuclear agency to begin enriching uranium for use in a medical-research reactor, ratcheting up Tehran's defiance over Western demands that it curb its nuclear ambitions. Iran has appeared eager to flex its muscles on the world stage despite recent threats by the U.S. of economic sanctions. Last week, for instance,Tehran unveiled a series of what it described as breakthroughs in its domestic space program. That worried Western officials, who say satellite technology can be used to develop missile-delivery systems.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew many standing ovations from a friendly crowd Saturday night as she blasted Washington Democrats and the Obama administration in a keynote speech for what was billed as the first national Tea Party Convention.
Source: CNN
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THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.
Source: Times Online
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Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) -- The organizer of the Tea Party Convention says he agrees with Tom Tancredo's description of President Obama as a socialist.
Source: CNN
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They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days.
Today, the hard work finally paid off as soldiers found one of those elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been hiding.
Source: Daily Mail
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A massive and potentially record breaking winter storm moving up the East Coast has forced Senator Maria Cantwell to cancel her speaking engagement Sunday at the 10th Harvesting Clean Energy Conference in Kennewick. Bruce Terry, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in Camp Spring, MD, said about the storm, "I don't know if it's going to go down in the record books but it will be very significant. Travel tonight and tomorrow will be absolutely treacherous."
Senator Cantwell was scheduled to speak on the necessity of implementing Cap & Trade to mitigate Global Warming.
Source: ABC News, Tri-City Herald
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WASHINGTON – After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in Congress.
Source: Yahoo News
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Washington State voters overwhelmingly approved I-960 in 2007, which requires a two-thirds majority vote in Olympia in order to increase taxes. Senate Democrats introduced a plan Wednesday to temporarily suspend the initiative and to rewrite other parts. Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, architect of the plan, said, "I-960 in practice is an impenetrable roadblock to thoughtful, reasoned governing."
Source: Tri-City Herald
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President Obama criticized senators Wednesday for using a legislative tactic he once practiced himself, saying that Republicans were delaying confirmation votes on several of his nominees for reasons unrelated to their qualifications. "We've got a huge backlog of folks who are unanimously viewed as well qualified -- nobody has a specific objection to them -- but end up having a hold on them because of some completely unrelated piece of business," Obama said at a question-and-answer session during the Senate Democratic Conference, held at the Newseum.
News reports indicate that Obama, as a senator from Illinois, placed holds on at least three Bush administration nominees amid policy disagreements or concerns about their qualifications.
Source: Washington Post
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Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R) will be sworn into office Thursday, a week earlier than expected, after he asked officials in his home state of Massachusetts on Wednesday to certify his election "without delay." Brown's addition to the Senate will mark the end of the 60-vote majority Democrats have held for much of the past year and give Republicans enough votes to block legislation as they choose.
Source: Washington Post
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Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to get rid of a marine base Washington considers crucial.
Source: Daily Mail
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Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran.
Source: UK Guardian
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