Visit One News Page for the latest Politics news from around the world, aggregated from leading sources including newswires, newspapers and broadcast media. Search millions of archived news headlines. This feed provides the latest Politics news headlines. http://www.onenewspage.com/latest/Politics.htm (c) copyright One News Page. All headlines and description content (c) by the accredited news source - see http://www.onenewspage.com/tc.php#accreditation for further details. 15 webmaster@onenewspage.com (One News Page Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:45:47 +0000 http://static.onenewspage.com/ONPglobe100.png http://www.onenewspage.com/latest/Politics.htm en-us Republicans are using this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to make their case that the health care overhaul amounts to government-rationed health care. Reported by FOXNews.com 18 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040796/GOP-Women-Health-Recommendations-Could-Affect-Care.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:27:24 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040796/GOP-Women-Health-Recommendations-Could-Affect-Care.htm On Friday night\'s \"Hardball\" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney\'s book and accused the president of \"dithering\" over Afghanistan. \"President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there. Health care. Terror trials. Job losses.\" Matthews began. He then launched a series of aggressive questions going after many of the president\'s recent decisions. \"Is he just too darned intellectual? Too much the egghead? Why did he bow to that Japanese emperor? Why did he pick Tim Geithner to be his economic front-man? Why all this dithering over Afghanistan? And who thought it was a wonderful idea to bring the killers of 9/11 to New York City, the media capital of the world, so they could tell their story?\" The former vice president accused Obama of \"dithering while America\'s armed forces are in danger,\" in October, to much backlash. Reported by Huffington Post 34 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040659/Chris-Matthews-Criticizes-Obama-Using-Cheney-Dithering.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:11:33 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040659/Chris-Matthews-Criticizes-Obama-Using-Cheney-Dithering.htm The Foreign Ministry has decided to admit the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows stopovers of U.S. military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, ministry sources said Saturday. During its in-house probe, the ministry found documents suggesting the existence of the secret nuclear agreement, according to the sources. Reported by Kyodo 50 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040550/Gov-to-admit-existence-of-secret-pact.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:55:25 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040550/Gov-to-admit-existence-of-secret-pact.htm TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- A 43-year-old California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to several bank robberies in Washington state. Robert Vincent Mendez has also been indicted in four other bank robberies in Oregon.... Reported by AP 54 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040381/Man-sentenced-for-WA-bank-robberies.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:51:22 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040381/Man-sentenced-for-WA-bank-robberies.htm EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- A Gold Bar-area couple have pleaded guilty to six counts each of felony animal cruelty in the wake of a January raid that rescued more than 150 dogs.... Reported by AP 54 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040382/plead-guilty-in-Wash-puppy-mill-case.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:51:22 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040382/plead-guilty-in-Wash-puppy-mill-case.htm WASHINGTON (AP) -- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday.... Reported by AP 54 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040380/Levin-May-be-more-troubling-mails-from.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:51:21 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040380/Levin-May-be-more-troubling-mails-from.htm There\'s a strong feeling that Congress is bucking Obama and isn\'t being called to task for it. For the first time, Obama\'s approval ratings are below 50 percent (Gallup poll says) and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner\'s resignation are growing louder. Sarah Palin\'s managed to suck up a good deal of media oxygen. Bob calls her a \"tarbaby for the Republican party, a monster they created,\" while Tony says he\'s pro-Palin and thinks people clamor for her because she speaks her mind and breaks through. He says her honesty is her virtue while Bob and Arianna fear that she is dangerous, stirring up scapegoats at a time when people need someone to blame. And the health care debate - or vote about whether or not to bring it to debate - is where we stand this week. Should Obama punish the democrats who aren\'t toeing his line? Or is this just Congress acting institutionally and asserting its rights, party politics be damned? Reported by Huffington Post 58 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040375/Huff-Radio-Left-Right-Center-Obama-Geithner.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:47:36 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040375/Huff-Radio-Left-Right-Center-Obama-Geithner.htm Former President Bill Clinton told FireDogLake today he would not attend a free clinic event in Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann had \"politicized\" the event. Reported by Huffington Post 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040047/Bill-Clinton-Blasts-Olbermann-For-Politicizing-Health-Care.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:16:18 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6040047/Bill-Clinton-Blasts-Olbermann-For-Politicizing-Health-Care.htm A billboard showing President Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver car dealership that put it up. The sign shows a cartoonish Obama and bears the words "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?" Underneath Obama's image is the phrase, "BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!" The words "WAKE... Reported by Newser 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039793/Billboard-Links-Obama-to-Jihad.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:56:12 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039793/Billboard-Links-Obama-to-Jihad.htm Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has decided to admit the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows stopovers of U.S. military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, Foreign Ministry sources said Saturday. During an in-house probe by the Foreign Ministry, documents suggesting the existence of the secret nuclear agreement were found, and Okada will announce the outcome of the investigation early next year, according to the sources. Reported by Kyodo 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039776/Okada-to-admit-existence-of-secret-pact-on.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:55:52 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039776/Okada-to-admit-existence-of-secret-pact-on.htm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of three wavering U.S. Senate Democrats said on Friday he would vote to start the chamber's healthcare debate, bolstering the chances for a broad reform bill one day before its first crucial test. Reported by Reuters 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039658/Moderate-Democrat-boosts-Senate-health-bill.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:51:09 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039658/Moderate-Democrat-boosts-Senate-health-bill.htm Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: RULING BLOC'S POWER PLAY (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Nov. 20) Reported by Kyodo 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039517/Japanese-editorial-excerpts.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:34:51 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039517/Japanese-editorial-excerpts.htm I\'ve been blogging since June of 2006 and have not avoided controversial issues or people. But something I recently posted at Psychology Today, \"Sarah Palin\'s Lies\" (now posted in full below), elicited more vitriolic comments and personal e-mails than anything else I\'ve ever written. Here are a few examples: \"Why is it that fat, ugly sluts like you are always liberal democrats?\" \"You will die, eventually, and take the evil with you. And that is as it should be. As such, you are clearly not a real American, but one of the obama type. There are plenty of places for you to live, but NOT in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!\" [It got nastier after this.] I realize that viciousness is part of the blogosphere, and that other bloggers experience much worse, so I\'m not complaining. If I\'m going to write about controversy and do it in a passionate way, then I have to be ready for whatever might come my way. It is interesting, though, that when Sarah Palin was asked recently about the people who have criticized her, she said, \"These are probably some lonely people, some shallow people.\" So perhaps her defenders are simply following her lead. Or maybe they would have commented as they did even without Palin\'s example. Here\'s my original post, in full, from Psychology Today: Sarah Palin\'s Lies Listen up, folks, I\'m going rogue! Well, actually, just veering off-topic for today. I always agree to do interviews relevant to single life, but when it comes to my other area of expertise - the psychology of lying - I have to be in the mood. Nothing puts me in the mood better than a really interesting question. So when Daily Beast reporter Michelle Goldberg asked me why Sarah Palin lies even when the truth is well established, she got me thinking. You can read what I and another expert told Goldberg in her intriguing piece, \"Palin\'s Ego Trip,\" here. I won\'t repeat that but just add a bit more. I studied liars and their lies for decades. I found that the vast majority of liars do care about the truth in at least one fundamental way - they want to be able to assure themselves and others that there is something honest about what they are saying. They want to have some wisp of truth to hang onto. What would you do if you hated a particular painting, only to have the artist who painted it approach you, point to it, and say, \"That\'s one of my paintings. What do you think of it?\" Along with my colleague and friend, Kathy Bell, I actually did research like this. (It is described in professional paper #4 in the book, The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss.) A completely truthful answer would have been, \"I hate it.\" Unsurprisingly, that\'s not the answer our participants preferred. Instead, they tried in all sorts of ways to convey the impression that they liked the painting, while still including something that could be defended as truthful. For example, they might tell the artist that they liked the shape of the leaf in the plant in the background - without acknowledging that the shape of that one leaf was the ONLY thing they liked. From my post as an outside observer, it seems to me that Sarah Palin doesn\'t care much about the truth. In that way, she is a very special liar. Instead, Palin seems to love the effect her disingenuous pronouncements have on her audiences and so she just runs with them. Her fans adore her claims about \"death panels\" and about Obama supposedly \"palling around with terrorists\" and all the rest. Look at how they roar with approval and fervor when she tosses that red, bloody moose meat to them - how can the mere (non) truth-value of what she is saying ever compete with that? Plus, the fact that her taunts drive her detractors over the edge - well, that just adds to the fun! Sarah Palin seems to relish the reaction she gets to her claims and complaints. Among her core fan base, the theme that the mean media and the full-of-themselves campaign staffers were unfair to noble, authentic, small-town Sarah seems to be a winner. Whether it is really true is almost irrelevant. I do love the irony of Palin flaunting her authenticity with lies. [If you are interested in reading more about the serious lies that people have told me about, take a look at my short book, Behind the Door of Deceit: Understanding the Biggest Liars in Our Lives. It is available in paperback here or at Amazon, or as a Kindle version.] Reported by Huffington Post 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039387/Bella-DePaulo-Sarah-Palin-and-Her-Lies-And.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:23:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039387/Bella-DePaulo-Sarah-Palin-and-Her-Lies-And.htm Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. But the section's purpose is indisputable: to deliver $100 million or more in federal funds to the state. And in the process clear the way for one of three moderate Democratic fence-sitters — Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas are the others — to help propel the legislation past its initial hurdle in a crucial Saturday vote. Reported by CBS 2 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039363/Moderate-Dems-Swayed-Ahead-Of-Health-Bill-Vote.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:23:18 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039363/Moderate-Dems-Swayed-Ahead-Of-Health-Bill-Vote.htm Glenn Beck has got a “big plan” for 2010, and he’s going to let us in on it tomorrow at a Florida rally that coincides with the beginning of his book tour, insiders tell Politico . The Fox News host’s new direction is likely to involve his 9.12 Project, aimed... Reported by Newser 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039288/Beck-to-Unveil-Big-Plan-at-Saturday-Rally.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:23 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039288/Beck-to-Unveil-Big-Plan-at-Saturday-Rally.htm The U.S. Army has reversed itself and says it will open former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media. Reported by msnbc.com 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039188/Army-to-allow-media-to-Palin-book-event.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:21:30 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039188/Army-to-allow-media-to-Palin-book-event.htm ---------- Tanzania, Zambia seek one-time ivory distribution to Japan, China TOKYO - Tanzania and Zambia have proposed they be allowed to sell ivory of African elephants, whose international deals are prohibited under the Washington Convention, just one time to Japan and China, sources close to the issue said Saturday. Reported by Kyodo 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039185/Kyodo-news-summary.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:21:25 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039185/Kyodo-news-summary.htm Military prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek new charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Reported by Miami Herald 2 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039004/Prosecutors-plan-commission-case-in-Cole-bombing.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:16:37 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6039004/Prosecutors-plan-commission-case-in-Cole-bombing.htm In this economy, states are trying to attract and retain businesses and the taxes they generate. An increasingly nasty border battle is raging between California and Nevada. Ben Tracy reports. Reported by CBS News 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038961/Video-California-Vs-Nevada.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038961/Video-California-Vs-Nevada.htm In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility. Reported by Wired 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038957/Vanish%21-How-Wired-Readers-Caught-Our-Fugitive-Writer.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:15:56 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038957/Vanish%21-How-Wired-Readers-Caught-Our-Fugitive-Writer.htm While on the run, Evan Ratliff snapped a self-portrait each day to document his constantly evolving appearance. Reported by Wired 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038958/Shaggy-to-Bald-Evan-Daily-Costume-Change.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:15:56 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038958/Shaggy-to-Bald-Evan-Daily-Costume-Change.htm After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Why were they drawn to the hunt, what did they do and what did they learn? Reported by Wired 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038959/Stories-From-the-Hunt-for-Evan-Ratliff.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:15:56 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038959/Stories-From-the-Hunt-for-Evan-Ratliff.htm With a week remaining in the hunt for Evan Ratliff, Wired decided to up the stakes with of five challenges hidden in New York Times crossword puzzles. Reported by Wired 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038960/Wired-Tests-Writer-With-Series-of-Bold-Challenges.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:15:56 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038960/Wired-Tests-Writer-With-Series-of-Bold-Challenges.htm Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: BREAKING THE PYONGYANG PATTERN (The Japan Times, an English-language daily) Reported by Kyodo 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038823/Japanese-editorial-excerpts.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:56:37 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038823/Japanese-editorial-excerpts.htm  On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no notices in the papers, although the word of mouth was not particularly good and the amateurs on the internet had given it a panning. "Self-indulgent", "rambling", and "it seemed to go on so long, I couldn't believe it was only 10 when it ended" were not untypical.So we were pleasantly surprised. It is, at times, rather diffuse and, since it takes the form of a play within a play, you have to watch a superb actor, Richard Griffiths, play a not so good actor, playing Auden in a play which Bennett has written but wouldn't have written, if you see what I mean. Then, just when you're praying for things to get a move on, there comes a great Bennett line, like a scud from the skies. "I'm not a rent boy! I went to Keble," for instance. The printed reviews have varied from doubtful to out-and-out raves.One thing he got exactly right was Auden's drinking, specifically dry martinis. I've described before the time he came to stay at our house (my Dad had written a book about his work and had nominated him for an honorary degree) and Bennett has caught perfectly his almost lustful affection for his favourite cocktail.Here is the recipe as the poet demonstrated it to me, then an undergraduate: you take a very large jug and pour in an entire bottle of gin. Then you throw in a whole tray of ice cubes, with a lemon, sliced. Add a single capful of dry vermouth and stir.My parents had invited some friends and colleagues round to meet Auden, so he sat down, placed the jug on a table in front of him and it lasted exactly the length of the party, about two hours. Then he started on the wine. Incidentally, I have learned of an intriguing addition to Alan Bennett's life. Earlier this year the Duchess of Devonshire – Debo, the last surviving Mitford sister – published her second volume of jottings, called Home to Roost. She needed an introduction and told her publisher that, although she had never met him, she would love to have Bennett write it. He was duly approached and, slightly puzzled, agreed. The two have now become great friends and she drops into his house in Camden Town, north London, where they eat cheese on toast. From the lady in the van, through Thora Hird to the Duchess of Devonshire! Does this prove, or destroy, the notion that we are still a class-bound society? An event that was not pleasantly surprising was England's rugby match against Argentina at Twickenham. Our cheap seats in the top corner of the new south stand were pretty good, which is more than you can say for the game. Giant screens at either end of the ground let us see Martin Johnson bury his face in his hands, recreating the sensation of watching it at home, only with cold knees.England were playing in their new plum-coloured change strip and there was a cardboard poster in the same colour on every seat. We were enjoined to hold them up after the two national anthems, in the hope of inspiring the team. We dutifully did just that and the stadium was a great wall of purple – except for the Nike swoosh, in white, on all four sides. We had been conned into taking part in a mass advertising stunt. I don't know why this was so annoying, but it was. Most people would be surprised to learn that the commander of Winston Churchill's bodyguard during the second world war had been born Wolfgang von Blumenthal in Berlin, but Charles Arnold-Baker was brought to Britain by his English mother after her marriage to Baron von Blumenthal collapsed. He took his step-father's name, and worked in a great variety of jobs through a long life. He died this summer, at the age of 90.But he will be best remembered for his extraordinary one-man tome, The Companion to British History. It took him 30 years to write, is 1,400 pages long, and contains 2m words, covering almost every imaginable aspect of our history and foreign history where it impinged upon Britain, sometimes in eye-watering detail.I refer to it constantly. It is always scholarly, and, like the work it's most often compared to, Dr Johnson's dictionary, often eccentric.Before his death he completed the third edition, which is just out now and well up to scratch. New entries includes one on mobile phones: "Described by Norman Lamont as 'one of the greatest scourges of modern times'". Or a final addition to the entry on the Thirty-Nine articles: "Anglo-Catholic priests' cassocks have 39 buttons which, according to the Revd. D. Skeoch, represent those articles he can accept (to the navel) and those he has rejected (below)."The book is expensive, but good value, at £78. Henry von Blumenthal, the author's son, would like to offer a discount to Guardian readers: email him at info@loncrosspress.com. Gordon Brown's strange pronunciations, part 87: the prime minister has been making much of the Conservative party leader David Cameron's "cast-iron" promise, now abandoned, of a referendum on the Lisbon treaty."I suppose that is a cast-iron promise!" he says sarkily of any proposal the Tory leader makes. Though sometimes he gets it the wrong way round and calls it an "iron-cast promise".It's rather spoiled, though, by the fact that he seems to be the only person in the English-speaking world who pronounces the letter "r" in "iron", thus: "cast eye-ron promise." It brings you up short and makes it hard to concentrate on what follows.Simon Hoggartguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038681/Feeling-like-plum-at-Twickenham.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:52:42 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Politics/20091121/6038681/Feeling-like-plum-at-Twickenham.htm