Did Ahmadinejad really say Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 5th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Did Ahmadinejad really say Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’?
“Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map.”
President Obama, speech to the U.N. General Assembly, September 21, 2011
Opposition to Obama grows — strongly
Four in 10 Americans “strongly” disapprove of how President Obama is handling job as president in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the highest that number has risen during his time in office and a sign of the hardening opposition to him as he seeks a second term.
While the topline numbers are troubling enough, dig deeper into them and the news gets no better for Obama. Forty-three percent of independents — a group the president spent the better part of the last year courting — strongly disapprove of the job he is doing. Forty seven percent of people 65 years of age and older — reliable voters in any election — strongly disapprove of how he is doing his job.
Still waiting for air safety improvements
Change comes slowly, very slowly, in Washington. Shortly after the Colgan Air crash near Buffalo in February 2009, Transporation Secretary Ray LaHood and incoming Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt promised swift action to remedy the likely culprits: pilot error, fatigue and inadequate training.
