Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Israel’s military threat has little substance, referring to it as a “sword” which has gone “blunt,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
“Israel is upset to see that its sword has gone blunt and Iran grows more powerful day by day,” he said after a cabinet meeting in Tehran.
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Gallup has posted an analysis today by Elizabeth Mendes showing historical data that details the repercussions of past conflicts on funding government ranged from none to short-lived, in terms of Americans’ concerns about the U.S. and the political players involved.
The 1995/1996 closure, which occurred when — just like today — Republican leaders in Congress and a Democratic president failed to agree on the budget, did little to impact Americans’ views of President Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Congress itself, the U.S. economy, and the country in general in the months after the shutdown began.
Rep. James Lankford, Oklahoma
Last Friday, September 20, 2013, the House passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December 15 at current spending levels, maintain the full faith and credit of the United States with regard to our debt responsibilities, and fully and permanently defund Obamacare. Today, the Senate voted to send back a bill to the House that left the implementation of the President’s healthcare law intact, ignored the amendment guaranteeing the full faith and credit of the United States, and shifted the government funding expiration to November 15. This is the same result we faced in previous attempts to defund Obamacare.
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The New York Post reports that the Islamic terrorists who stormed a Kenya shopping mall and held it captive for days tortured and mutilated dozens of victims based on their faith, according to a forensics doctor.
Men were found hanging from hooks, after being blinded and castrated in a scene out of a horror movie. Other hostages had their bodies dismembered and eyes gouged out.
“These are not allegations. These are f–king truths,” the doctor told Kenya’s The Star newspaper.
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Seymour Hersh
The Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can’t control’
Seymour Hersh’s specifics include closing the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sacking 90% of editors in publishing and returning to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says in a Guardian interview, is to be an outsider.
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