New bin Laden audio spurs extremist networks
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 20th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
New bin Laden audio spurs extremist networks
Shortly before his death, Osama bin Laden purportedly recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements and predicting that revolutions would spread across the region as the Pakistani Taliban vow to step up their attacks. (May 19)
Senate Republicans block judicial nominee Goodwin Liu
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the nomination of President Obama’s nominee to a high-profile federal appellate court, the first time Republicans have ever united to successfully filibuster a judicial nomination.
On a 52 to 43 vote, law professor Goodwin Liu fell eight votes short of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster to his nomination. All but one Republican, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, opposed ending debate on Liu’s nomination to the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
As Pawlenty hits up Minn. donors, 2012 GOP hopeful says he needs money for ‘Buick’ campaign
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is keeping fundraising expectations for his presidential campaign in check, saying he simply needs enough to run a “Buick”-type campaign.
Pawlenty hit up home-state donors Wednesday in what aides were calling his biggest fundraising event of the financial quarter. It comes in the same week former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hauled in $10 million in a single day.
Pawlenty says he expects Romney to “be the unquestioned money champion” of the Republican field. Pawlenty declined to say if he would bring in $10 million for the first three months of his not-yet-official campaign.
