Labour Pains Deliver Coalition Government to UK

UK PM Gordon Brown announced his resignation, recommending Queen Elizabeth appoint 43 year-old Conservative Party leader David Cameron as Prime Minister, who, prior to Brown’s announcement, told the BBC:
“It’s now decision time for the Liberal Democrats and I hope they will make the right decision to give this country the strong, stable government that [...]

May 13th, 2010
Topic: NRB

U.K.: Jihadist who called for assassination of prime ministers and “huge attacks on centres and places of benefit to the crusaders” pleads guilty

An update on Ishaq Kanmi, whose “loyalty to his form of Islam exceeds his loyalty to this country.” “‘Al-Qaeda in Britain’ leader who threatened Gordon Brown and Tony Blair pleads guilty,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, May 10: Ishaq Kanmi, 23, from Blackburn, Lancashire, posted messages on a well-known…

May 10th, 2010
Topic: JW

Britain Votes

Today, the British people will determine who will be their next prime minister. Will it be the current PM, Gordon Brown of Labor, the surprising Nick Clegg of the left-of-center Liberal Democrats party, or Tory leader David Cameron? Which one of these ambitious men will move to 10 Downing Street?
Shortly before election day, the conservative [...]

May 6th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Scott Brown Gives Tea Partiers the Could Shoulder – Should We Be Surprised?

Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts understandably energized many conservatives and provided the valuable 41st vote against ObamaCare in the Senate.  But how much of an ally will he really be to the Right?  The Daily Beast’s Samuel Jacobs reports on Brown’s conspicuous absence from today’s Boston Tea Party, wondering whether or not the participation of [...]

April 14th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Gubernatorial Candidate Jerry Brown Tells Labor Unions to “Go on The Attack”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “‘Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown spoke to a labor group Tuesday and urged them to go on the offensive.”
“We’re going to attack whenever we can, but I’d rather have you attack,” Brown said at a gathering of the California delegation of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in [...]

March 18th, 2010
Topic: NRB

The Audacity of Nope: Chris Matthews Thinks Scott Brown Should Wait Untill His Career is Over to Write a Book—Unlike Barack Obama

The New Mark Twain?
Newly minted Senator Scott Brown has been offered a book deal, and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews thinks he should just say no:
MATTHEWS: Time for the “Sideshow.”We learned today that Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, who has been a senator for just 35 days, has a book deal.
According to “The Wall Street Journal,” Brown is [...]

March 11th, 2010
Topic: NRB