The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 32% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty percent (30%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +2 (see trends).Thirty-seven percent (37%) say the country is now heading in the right direction.
Brooks, 71, denied the accusations. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, where he is being tried for 91-counts and charged with rape, criminal sexual act, sexual abuse, assault and other charges. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of first-degree rape.
Justice Charles Solomon set bail at $500,000 bond or $250,000 cash bail and gave Brooks until Thursday to post it. The judge told Brooks not to leave town without letting the court know. (more…)
WSJ:
Amazon.com Inc. sent a letter to California legislators on Monday threatening to end its business with marketing affiliates in the state if legislation passes forcing the Seattle e-commerce company to collect sales tax from California customers. (more…)
KMBC:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A KMBC-TV viewer stepped up to help a family without air conditioning.
Sudi Hussein, a single mother of three children, called for an ambulance Tuesday night to help cool her children.
KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that the three children, ranging in ages from 2 to 8, spent about 40 minutes in the air-conditioned ambulance, cooling off.
Star:
The Kansas City Council votes today on a rezoning and development plan for a new federal weapons plant in south Kansas City.
The council’s Planning and Zoning Committee endorsed the plan on Wednesday for a new plant that would build non-nuclear components for the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The plant would replace the Bannister Federal Complex that is said to be outdated after more than 60 years of use.
In a letter to the CEO’s of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold “may be too onerous” and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.
The legislators asked the companies to “make appropriate adjustments” to their underwriting standards for condos, the paper added.
In an interview with the paper, Weiner said the rules have “had a real chill on the ability to get these condos sold,” at a time when prices of condos have fallen enough to attract potential buyers.
Martina Navratilova is being sued for millions by a former lover who claims she was dumped without warning after nearly eight years. (more…)
TWS looks at what Obama is now saying.
The Roosevelt Room. HT Club for Growth.
For decades, the Roosevelt Room has been the center of policy discussion in the West Wing of the White House. RooseveltRoom.net provides former senior Bush Administration officials a forum to continue their engagement in current policy debates and a gateway to their published work elsewhere on the web.
Washington Post staffers were notified last night that three cases of swine flu have been reported at the paper’s 15th and L headquarters, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
Out of 895 respondents, 24 percent were Republicans, 38 percent Democrats, and 38 percent were independents, according to a June 20 release from CBS News. While the release says the sampling was conducted at random, those numbers are significantly below the 32.6 percent who identify themselves as Republican according to a May survey from the nonpartisan Rasmussen Reports. (more…)
MASSACHUSETTS (WPRI) - A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action. (more…)
Former vice president Dick Cheney has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish his memoirs. The book will be published by the house’s “Threshold” imprint, run by former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin. The opportunity to work with Matalin again was a significant factor in the decision, says a source close to Cheney.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby said today his agency was awarded $846,758 in grants to five Wyandotte County health care providers.
Nearly 40 clinics across the state received more than $6.3 million in grants as part of the program.
Fire chief Bobs Sims said the vehicle will be used for medical responses, grass fires and will carry extrication tools as a back up rescue unit. The department received the new vehicle Monday and it went out on its first run, for a medical call, Monday night. The city of Abilene purchased the response vehicle earlier this year. A Ford F-450 truck, it has a 2009 chassis, which came from Green Ford of Abilene. Watts Welding of Brookville attached the large storage compartment and water pump.
Bill Sweetman has the scoop:
This Sunday, June 28, National Geographic TV airs Hitler’s Stealth Fighter. Set your TiVos or just kick the rest of the family off the TV, because this one should be good.
Back when stealth was very, very secret, a few people quietly advised me to take a look at the Horten Ho229, one of WW2 Germany’s most advanced designs - a jet-powered flying wing made of wood. In a German book, a British documentary producer had found something even more interesting: the Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar, had planned to use a primitive radar absorbent structure (RAS) in the leading edges. They were to be made from a sandwich of plywood around a carbon-loaded filler. The only question: how well would it actually have worked?
