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Family of Doctor Who Delivered Obama 'Blown Away'
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU - The family of a Honolulu doctor whose signature appears on President Barack Obama's birth certificate woke up to the news Wednesday that the late obstetrician had delivered Obama. Relatives of Dr. David Sinclair told The Associated Press that they were "blown away" and "honored." So-called "birthers" have questioned Obama's birthplace, espousing theories that he was not born in the U.S., possibly his father's native Kenya, and therefore ineligible to be president. Obama released a short form copy of his birth certificate in 2008. Recently, potential Republican presidential ...
Tsunami of Moronic Thoughts: Glenn Beck, Gilbert Gottfried and Others' Offensive Japan Comments
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsWrath of God or natural disaster? When it comes to Japan, Glenn Beck won't claim it's the former, but can't tell you it's the latter. "I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes," Beck told his radio listeners on Monday, before throwing in, "I'm not not saying that either." "What God does is God's business. But I'll tell you this -- there's a message being sent," Beck continued. "And that is, 'Hey you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying." Take a listen: Beck's comments, which led Time ...
Christine O'Donnell: Extending Jobless Benefits a 'Tragedy' of Historic Proportions
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTragedies, depending on how one defines them, come in triplicate. Just ask Christine O'Donnell, the defeated but still chatty Senate hopeful from Delaware. O'Donnell, in a recent appearance before a tea party group in Fairfax City, Va., expressed her disdain for the compromise tax deal worked out between the Obama administration and Republican leaders in Congress, The Hill newspaper and later the Washington Post reported. The agreement, the onetime Republican candidate said last Tuesday, is a "potpourri of soundbites," taking a little bit from each party and putting it together -- not a solid ...
USS Arizona Survival Stories on Pearl Harbor Day
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- Of the approximately 2,400 lives lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, nearly half were sailors aboard the USS Arizona. The Navy battleship sank to the bottom of the harbor after being bombarded in the Japanese raid. Approximately 1,177 sailors and Marines went down with the vessel. The ship's destruction marked the single largest loss of life aboard one ship in U.S. naval history. To mark the "date which will live in infamy," Surge Desk has rounded up some excerpts from past and present interviews with those who survived the attack: Louis Conter in an ...
Remembering the Women at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere were women at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. No one talks about it much because there were so few of them compared to the men. Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also known as the "date that will live in infamy." The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument is a national park. A new $56 million visitor's center is being dedicated this week. The highlight of the four days of events marking the occasion is a ceremony this morning at 7:30 a.m. Honolulu time, exactly 18 minutes before the 1941 attack began. Out of the 1,511 men on board the USS Arizona, 334 ...
Pearl Harbor Day: A Date That Will Live On in Cinema
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- Today, Americans remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Considered a major turning point in World War II, the Japanese ambush on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii killed or wounded over 3,000 American military personnel. In a speech to a joint session of Congress the following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it "a date which will live in infamy." Since the tragic attack occurred, the events of Dec. 7, 1941, have become a recurring focus in American cinema. Pearl Harbor films not only captivate audiences with tales of war, perseverance and hardship, but they also ...
Pearl Harbor Day: Key Facts About the Attack on December 7, 1941
By J. Richard - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- It lives on in infamy. On Dec. 7 each year, Americans commemorate Pearl Harbor Day in memory of the thousands who were killed or injured when the Japanese attacked an American naval base in Hawaii that day in 1941. The attack is frequently cited as a major turning point in World War II. In his book "Smart Power," foreign policy expert Ted Galen Carpenter gives his take on the significance of the event. Carpenter writes: Pearl Harbor plunged America into the maelstrom of World War II, a struggle that involved the core security interests of the republic and symbolized rival ...
Length of Afghan War Headed for Record Books
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 11) -- So much for troop withdrawal deadlines. "The Obama administration is increasingly emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, a change in tone aimed at persuading the Afghans and the Taliban that there will be no significant American troop withdrawals next summer," The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That date is still four years away, but taking the administration at its word (even though that word just changed), that means the Afghan war, which in October entered its 10th year of world's superpower vs. ...
Analysis: Is Anti-Muslim Fervor Just Latest Fear?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 19) -- Are Muslims the new Jews? Or Irish Catholics? Perhaps Mormons? Or are they really the war on terror's Japanese? Religious experts and historians say: all of the above. The still-unfolding controversy over plans to build an Islamic center near ground zero is just the latest chapter in a long saga of religious and ethnic misunderstanding that experts say goes back to the nation's earliest days. Fear of foreigners dates to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which were aimed at French immigrants suspected of disloyalty, said American University historian Allan ...
Obama, the Thin-Skinned President
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyIn their book "The Battle for America 2008," Haynes Johnson and Dan Balz wrote this: [Chief political aide David] Axelrod also warned that Obama's confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, would be used against him. "This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience," he wrote. "It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don't know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You ...
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