Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, July 09, 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.
Australia's New PM is Non-Religious
Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard said during a radio interview this week that she's not religious. "I am not going to pretend a faith I don't feel," she said. "I am what I am and people will judge that."
Posted by rcade at 09:29 PM on July 04, 2010 | 261 COMMENTS
NASA Director: My Job Includes Muslim Outreach
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview with Al Jazeera that his "foremost" mission as director of the space agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. "[President Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said.
Posted by boaz at 10:04 AM on July 06, 2010 | 198 COMMENTS
Feds Sue Arizona Over Immigration
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.
Posted by ZOMBIEHUNTER at 02:41 PM on July 06, 2010 | 192 COMMENTS
Steele: Afghan War Can't Be Won
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a gathering of Republicans that the Afghanistan War is a doomed effort launched by President Obama. "[T]his was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in," Steele said. "Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed."
Posted by Corky at 01:57 PM on July 02, 2010 | 189 COMMENTS
1 in 4 Don't Know We Fought England
As grills across America fire up this weekend some Americans may want to crack open a history book instead of a cold beer. A Marist poll finds that 26 percent of Americans dont know whom the United States declared its independence from.
Posted by leeatwater at 03:29 PM on July 05, 2010 | 143 COMMENTS
Employment Falls for First Time in 2010
U.S. employment fell for the first this year in June as thousands of temporary census jobs ended and private hiring grew less than expected, dealing a blow to President Obama who has identified job creation as a key priority.
Posted by rightisright at 06:31 PM on July 02, 2010 | 137 COMMENTS
Prez Scholars Rate Bush 39th, Obama 15th
The new Siena Research Institute poll of 238 presidential scholars rated George W. Bush the 39th best president (out of 44) and Barack Obama the 15th. Their top five: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt. Dropping 16 places since the last poll in 2002, Bush ranks as the worst president since Warren Harding and is "rated especially poorly in handling the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence."
Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:19 AM on July 02, 2010 | 134 COMMENTS
Is Any CEO Worth 1,000 of His Workers?
DailyFinance looked at more than a dozen companies where the difference between what the CEO makes and what an entry-level worker makes is unusually large. Leading that pack was Thomas M. Ryan of CVS CareMark, whose $30.4 million compensation in 2009 equals 1,461 of the pharmacy chain's entry-level employees.
Posted by latiflewis at 10:35 AM on July 08, 2010 | 131 COMMENTS
Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Create Jobs
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi garnered criticism Monday when she made statements indicating the best way to create new jobs is to hand out more unemployment checks. "This is one of the biggest stimuluses to our economy. Economists will tell you this money is spent quickly it injects demand into the economy and is job creating. It creates jobs faster than almost any other inititative that you can name,"
Posted by MURPHY at 09:55 AM on July 03, 2010 | 131 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on July 08, 2010 | 119 COMMENTS
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