Top News Stories of the Week

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Friday, June 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM

The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.

God May Have Multiple Particles

There may be multiple versions of the elusive "God particle" -- also known as the Higgs boson -- according to a new study undertaken at the Tevatron particle accelerator in Illinois. Finding the Higgs is the primary aim of the $10billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment near Geneva, Switzerland. Recent results from the Tevatron suggest physicists could be hunting five particles, not one.

Posted by Zatoichi at 09:54 AM on June 16, 2010 | 235 COMMENTS

Arizona's Next Target: 'Anchor Babies'

Time: "Anchor babies" isn't a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. While not new, the term is increasingly part of the local vernacular because the primary authors of the nation's toughest and most controversial immigration law are targeting these tots -- the legal weights that anchor many undocumented aliens in the U.S. -- for their next move. Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they're on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona -- and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution -- to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 06:50 AM on June 15, 2010 | 226 COMMENTS

Mr. Cadenhead Goes to Washington

Rogers Cadenhead: I'm in Woodbridge, Va., this morning about to head out to the Long Tail Alliance Fly-In, a gathering of small web publishers organized by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Google. As a publisher who uses context-based advertising on the Drudge Retort and other sites, I was invited to come to DC and meet with members of Congress to talk about why this form of advertising is important to online media.

Posted by rcade at 09:53 AM on June 14, 2010 | 194 COMMENTS

Ax May Fall on Mortgage Interest Tax Break

The popular tax break for mortgage interest, once considered untouchable, is falling under the scrutiny of policymakers and economic experts seeking ways to close huge deficits. Five years ago, a bipartisan tax reform commission created by President George W. Bush proposed ending the mortgage tax break. But the commission's plan stalled in Congress. "I'm not sure that we need to subsidize homeownership at all through the tax system," said Eric Toder of the Brookings-Urban Tax Policy Center.

Posted by taxman at 10:20 AM on June 12, 2010 | 158 COMMENTS

Laffer: Taxes Will Slam Economy

Arthur Laffer: People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates. People and businesses change the location of income based on incentives.

Posted by MURPHY at 08:33 PM on June 11, 2010 | 157 COMMENTS

Brownstein: Bush's Legacy Economic Decline

Ronald Brownstein: On every major measurement, the Census Bureau report shows that the country lost ground during Bush's two terms. While Bush was in office, the median household income declined, poverty increased, childhood poverty increased even more, and the number of Americans without health insurance spiked. By contrast, the country's condition improved on each of those measures during Bill Clinton's two terms, often substantially.

Posted by gl0bal74 at 09:59 AM on June 16, 2010 | 137 COMMENTS

Obama Vows to Restore Gulf Coast

President Barack Obama on Tuesday night used his first Oval Office address to try to change Americans' perceptions of his handling of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that's gushed out of control for nearly two months and to make the case that he and his team are finally in the driver's seat. " We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long as it takes," Obama said.

Posted by rcade at 11:04 PM on June 15, 2010 | 134 COMMENTS

Obama Will Address Nation Tuesday

President Barack Obama plans an address to the nation on the oil spill disaster Tuesday from the Oval Office, his first such address in his presidency. White House advisor David Axelrod said on Meet the Press, "We now know what we can do and what we can't do in terms of collecting oil, and what lies ahead in the next few months. And he wants to lay out the steps that we're going to take from here to get through this crisis."

Posted by American1st at 09:32 PM on June 13, 2010 | 128 COMMENTS

Obama: Oil Spill 'Environment's 9/11'

President Obama said in an interview that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11. "In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he said.

Posted by rcade at 08:44 AM on June 14, 2010 | 127 COMMENTS

Repub Congressman Apologizes to BP

A leading House Republican accused the White House Thursday of a "$20 billion shakedown" of oil giant BP by requiring the company to establish a huge fund to compensate victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill. I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House," said Rep. Joe Barton, referring to the agreement Obama announced with BP.

Posted by GOD at 03:21 PM on June 17, 2010 | 115 COMMENTS

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