Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Obama's SOTU Challenges Congress
In his third State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called keeping alive the American dream "the defining issue of our time" and pledged to fight obstruction by congressional Republicans. "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by," he said. "Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."
Posted by rcade at 12:23 AM on January 25, 2012 | 429 COMMENTS
The Drudge Retort is at the media center for tonight's final presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fl., which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and is broadcast on CNN. The race is tied between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to a newly released CNN/Time/ORC International Poll. Romney has the support of 36 percent, Gingrich 34 percent, Rick Santorum 11 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent. The two-percent gap between the leaders is within the poll's margin of error.
Posted by rcade at 07:45 PM on January 26, 2012 | 370 COMMENTS
Romney on Attack in Tampa Debate
Mitt Romney has enhanced his image as a front-runner by staying above the fray during a run of Republican debates, but at Monday night's debate in Tampa, he sharply abandoned that approach to unleash a withering attack on the rival who threatens his claim to the nomination. Saying that Newt Gingrich "resign in disgrace" as House Speaker in the '90s, Romney called him an influence peddler in a withering criticism of his record in and out of office.
Posted by rcade at 08:39 AM on January 24, 2012 | 286 COMMENTS
Student Punished Over Confederate Flag
A Missouri school district took away a high school student's parking privileged for 30 days because he wouldn't remove a Confederate flag from his pickup truck. "I've always been into the Civil War and southern history and I recently lived in Mississippi for a year," said Republic High School student Riley Collier, 16, who claimed his action "has nothing to do with racism."
Posted by rcade at 04:16 PM on January 20, 2012 | 246 COMMENTS
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is projected by MSNBC as the winner in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary.
Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 07:42 PM on January 21, 2012 | 237 COMMENTS
Gallup: 17% of Americans Uninsured
More American adults lacked health insurance in 2011 than in any year since Gallup began tracking it three years ago. The uninsured rate has been increasing since 2008, climbing to 17.1 percent in 2011. The one group that has become more insured is young adults 18 to 25, thanks to an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance plans. In 2014, the ACA mandates that all adults obtain insurance.
Posted by paneocon at 04:33 PM on January 25, 2012 | 203 COMMENTS
Santorum: Pregnancy from Rape a 'Gift'
In an interview on CNN where he defended his opposition to abortion even in cases of incest and rape, Rick Santorum said sexual assault victims should "accept this horribly created" pregnancy because it is "nevertheless a gift in a very broken way." Victims should "make the best out of a bad situation," he said.
Posted by dr_icepick at 12:35 PM on January 24, 2012 | 191 COMMENTS
Tea Party: Remove Slavery from Textbooks
Some Tennessee Tea Party members are demanding the state remove from American history textbooks any reference to America's founders owning slaves. Tea Party activist Hal Rounds said there's "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."
Posted by danni at 02:31 PM on January 24, 2012 | 186 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 23, 2012 | 180 COMMENTS
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained Monday morning by the Transportation Security Administration at a Nashville airport after refusing a pat-down when the full-body scanner set off an alarm -- which his aides said was "clearly a glitch." "I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely," his communications director Moira Bagley told Politico.
Posted by rcade at 11:41 AM on January 23, 2012 | 172 COMMENTS
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