FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren is in Alaska to get Gov. Sarah Palin’s reflections on the presidential election.
Nov. 9: FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren and Sarah Palin meet for the Alaska governor’s first post-election interview (FOX News Channel)
After a whirlwind campaign alongside Sen. John McCain, Sarah Palin is defending herself against criticism stemming from the tens of thousands of dollars spent on her wardrobe as well as several reported foreign affairs missteps.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government announced Monday an expanded bailout for insurance giant AIG of more than 150 billion dollars, as the Treasury tapped into emergency funds originally set for banks.
The latest bailout plan, the largest in US history, came as AIG burned through billions of dollars of cash and reported a third-quarter loss of 24.47 billion dollars.
The original Federal Reserve rescue of 85 billion dollars in mid-September, at the time the largest in corporate history, was expanded by 37.8 billion dollars just a few weeks later, and involved the government acquisition of a 79.9 percent stake in the troubled insurer…US expands record bailout of insurance giant AIG
Ron Paul on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto discussing bailout (11/10/08)
Bob Schieffer spoke with Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about any immediate action the president-elect may take in an attempt to prevent a recession.
His voice trembling, Keith looks into the camera and says
“You are asked now to stand on a question of love. All you need to do is stand and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate. You don’t have to help it. You don’t have to applaud it. You don’t have to fight for it. Just don’t put it out. Just don’t extinguish it. Because while at first it may look like that love is between two people you don’t know and you don’t understand and maybe you don’t even want to know, that love is, in fact, the ember of your love for your fellow person. Just because this is the only world we have and the other guy counts too.”
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, remember him? The incompetent boob a chorus of retired generals and admirals called on to resign because of his incompetence and inability to lead our military? He finally quit in November of 2006.
Well guess what? According to a report in the New York Times, Secretary Rumsfeld authorized a classified order back in 2004 that allows the U.S. military to carry out broad and secret attacks against al Qaeda even if those attacks occur inside countries we’re not at war with. In other words, these controversial strikes of late inside Syria and Pakistan are just fine according to Rumsfeld, whether the governments or people of those countries like us waging war inside their borders or not.
More than a half-dozen current and former military and security officials confirmed this to the New York Times. The measure gives the U.S. military the power to attack al Qaeda anywhere in the world.
Most of these attacks, when they occur, are carried out by U.S. Special Forces in conjunction with the C.I.A.
Here’s my question to you: Should the U.S. be attacking al Qaeda in foreign countries without permission?
President Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, spent about an hour in a private meeting Monday at the White House as Michelle Obama toured the residence with First Lady Laura Bush
Barack Obama and George Bush at the White House. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrived at the White House this afternoon to meet with President George Bush, the latest step in a transfer of power that appears to be progressing notably smoothly less than one week after Obama’s election.(READ MORE)
Obama arrives for White House tour, talk with Bush The Associated Press – WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Obama and President Bush met in the Oval Office Monday, a visit that comes during a historic shifting of power to a new …
Obama, Bush discuss world of challenges AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) — US president-elect Barack Obama, on his way to his historic January 20 swearing-in, held his first face-to-face talks with President …
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