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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 4th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Sarah Palin, in Iowa, attacks Obama and ‘crony capitalism’
INDIANOLA, Iowa —Sarah Palin delivered a populist broadside here Saturday against President Obama, the entire political establishment and what she called the “crony capitalism” that she said is destroying the country. But she offered no fresh clues about whether she will seek the presidency in 2012.
Casting herself as the ultimate outsider, the former Alaska governor used a tea party rally to chastise the president and a “permanent political class” that she said has protected their powers and enriched them, their friends and their contributors at the expense of ordinary Americans and the country’s well-being.
Obama appeals to lawmakers to pass transportation bill, says jobs are at stake
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is appealing to Congress to pass a transportation bill that would put money in the pipeline for roads and construction jobs, arguing that it’s an economic imperative.
Republicans say they support passing the bill, but Obama says time is running out and “political posturing” may stand in the way.
“There’s no reason to put more jobs at risk in an industry that has been one of the hardest-hit in this recession,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. “There’s no reason to cut off funding for transportation projects at a time when so many of our roads are congested, so many of our bridges are in need of repair and so many businesses are feeling the cost of delays.
9/11 aftermath leads one Pentagon survivor out of limbo and to a life improved
Third in a series.
Heinz Linderman steps aside as a tour group peers into the Pentagon Memorial Chapel. It is a weekday afternoon, and he has stopped by with his wife to visit the Pentagon’s most sacred corner, where the words “United in Memory Sept. 11, 2001” have been crafted into a circular pane of red, white and blue stained glass.
“This chapel was created in the aftermath of September 11th,” the tour guide’s voice booms through the narrow space.
