Week Ahead: Econ., jobs top agenda
THE WEEK AHEAD: Obama meets with Bank executives ... House takes up jobs bill ... Bernanke gets a vote ... New NBC/WSJ poll ... Obama to Copenhagen ... Pawlenty to N.H
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The personal cost of war
From NBC’s Bobby CervantesWith her rosary, Holy Water, and mementos strewn thwart the grass surrounding a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, Gina Barnhurst of Severna Park, Md., sits for hours in a lawn chair hand journals to a son who lies in front of her. ...
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Cornyn bullish about 2010 prospects
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroJon Cornyn, chairman of the NRSC, says things are looking up for the GOP. He has penned a memo to Republican senators and candidates, touting the sort of he sees during the time that an improved ...
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More questions over private contractors
From NBC’s Jim MiklaszewskiU.S. and Blackwater sources tell NBC News that armed Blackwater guards did take part in CIA raids aimed at capturing or killing insurgents and terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it was not apportionment of the CIA'session contract by the polemical private security ...
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McCain becomes Obama’s chief critic
From NBC's Mark MurrayPolitico's Jonathan Martin has an estimable piece on how John McCain has turned into President Obama'sitting "critic-in-chief," despite everything of Obama's efforts to strike out to him after the election. "For years, McCain relished being an outsider and a maverick, a style that ...
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