Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, August 27, 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.
Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. There have been other schools named after President Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.
Posted by mysterytoy at 10:31 AM on August 24, 2010 | 277 COMMENTS
Five states -- Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont -- go to the polls Tuesday. In Alaska and Arizona, incumbent Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and John McCain face vigorous challenges from the right. In Florida, the open Senate and gubernatorial contests have attracted self-funding outsider candidates whose free-spending candidacies are testing the resolve of each party's political establishment.
Posted by American1st at 08:10 PM on August 24, 2010 | 244 COMMENTS
Is Tennessee Too Close to Ground Zero?
The Murfreesboro mosque is hundreds of miles from New York City and the national furor about whether an Islamic community center should be built near Ground Zero. But the intense feelings driving that debate have surfaced in communities from California to Florida in recent months, raising questions about whether public attitudes toward Muslims have shifted. In Tennessee, three plans for new Islamic centers in the Nashville area -- one of which was ultimately withdrawn -- have provoked controversy and outbursts of ugliness.
Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 04:32 PM on August 24, 2010 | 237 COMMENTS
Visiting 30 Mosques in 30 Days
Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq are spending Ramadan on a 12,000-mile road trip, visiting mosques across America and writing about their experiences on 30 Mosques in 30 Days. They made a stop last week in Jacksonville at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida on the city's southside. "Ramadan is a month to bring people together," they write.
Posted by rcade at 08:01 AM on August 26, 2010 | 218 COMMENTS
CBO: Stimulus Added Millions of Jobs
The massive U.S. stimulus package put millions of people to work and boosted national output by hundreds of billions of dollars in the second quarter, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.
Posted by Corky at 01:55 PM on August 25, 2010 | 215 COMMENTS
Beck Praised Mosque Builder in 2006
Glenn Beck, who has denounced Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a radical building a "Allah-tells-me-to-blow-up- America mosque" in Manhattan, praised him as a moderate Muslim when they appeared together on Good Morning America in 2006. "I believe it's a small portion of Islam that is acting in these ways," Beck said during the program, drawing a distinction between terrorists and ordinary Muslims.
Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 04:31 PM on August 23, 2010 | 205 COMMENTS
Court Rules Against Utah Memorial Crosses
Fourteen 12-foot-high crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference for Christianity and are a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. "This may lead the reasonable observer to fear that Christians are likely to receive preferential treatment from the UHP," a panel of judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
Posted by mitch at 01:32 PM on August 20, 2010 | 177 COMMENTS
HuffPo: Fox News Ignored Iraq Withdrawal
Huffington Post: MSNBC devoted its entire prime-time footprint to the departure of the last American combat brigade from Iraq, with Richard Engel riding with troops and host Rachel Maddow based in Baghdad. Fox News Channel devoted just under 10 minutes to the story, much of it during Shepard Smith's 7 p.m. newscast, while spending 45 minutes discussing the potential construction of an Islamic mosque two blocks from ground zero.
Posted by prozacboi at 01:32 PM on August 21, 2010 | 172 COMMENTS
Muslim Worker Sues Disney Over Hijab Rule
A Muslim employee is suing Disneyland for telling her she can't serve customers wearing a headscarf. "Disney told [Imane] Boudlal that if she wanted to work as a hostess she had to remove her hijab because it did not comply with the 'Disney Look,'" said Leigh Shelton, a spokesperson for her union.
Posted by ExpsRedemption at 07:39 AM on August 20, 2010 | 172 COMMENTS
Stewart: Charlton Heston Was Right
Covering the "Ground Zero mosque" controversy Thursday night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart threw the hammer down on Fox News for anti-Muslim rhetoric and in a bit of mind-blowing irony, used Charlton Heston's NRA speech from May 1, 1999, after the Columbine massacre to make a point about tolerance. "America must stop this predictable pattern of reaction when an isolated terrible event occurs," Heston said.
Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 02:31 PM on August 21, 2010 | 162 COMMENTS
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