What do you all think, is this a preview of 2012?

Sarah Palin and President Barack Obama will share a stage together this Saturday night in Washington, Politico has learned.

The Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee, making her first trip to the nation’s capital since the election, will join the president at the Alfalfa Dinner, a venerable gathering of the city’s political elite.

The president is scheduled to address the black-tie crowd at the Capital Hilton.| MORE ›

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considered a highly emotional figure who has little to no self control when it comes to Gaza and Israel. He showed why he isn’t taken serious by many Middle East experts and Turkish secularists today by storming off stage in Davos while debating Israel Prime MInister Simon Peres.

The two debated each other about the Israeli war against Gaza.| MORE ›

House Republicans surprised Democrats Thursday by proposing an alternative stimilus plan for the economy, which would cost tax payers considerably less yet create millions of jobs nonetheless. The main reason the Republican plan would stimimulate the economy for a lower price is that they took all the pork and pet projects Democrats added to the other plan.

The plan would cost ‘only’ $478 billion which is nearly half the costs of the Democrats’ plan.| MORE ›

Iraq and the United States recently announced a cooperative education agreement that will allow Iraqi students to study at universities here in the U.S.  The goal?  Sending 500 Iraqi students to universities overseas as part of that country’s ongoing effort to educate its citizens.| MORE ›

In what’s quite a surprising development, Russian Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin warned the West not bail out too many companies and to stop interfering in their economies.

“Interference of the State, the belief in the omnipotence of the State: that is a reaction to market failures,” Mr Putin said in his keynote address at the opening of the four-day meeting. “There is a temptation to expand direct interference of state in economy. In the Soviet Union that became an absolute.| MORE ›

The House of Representatives rejected President Obama’s plan to delay the mandatory conversion to digital television.  The delay had been approved earlier by the Senate and would have extended the deadline until June of this year.  Congress originally authorized the distribution of an additional broadcast channel to each broadcast TV station so that they could start digital broadcasts almost 13 years ago in 1996. 

Good to see the plan moving ahead as scheduled and without any government-induced bumbling. 

Computerworld reports that Google has added a new feature to Gmail which should make the email provider even more competitive than it already is. From now onwards, users can reach their inbox – read received emails, but also write mails – while being offline. This means that you can now open your Gmail account when you’re 30,000 feet high in the air.

The feature was added yesterday (Tuesday).| MORE ›

One of the Middle East’s most popular networks, Al Arabiya, had the privilege to interview President Barack Obama shortly after he was inaugurated. It was his first interview as president. Many were surprised, some shocked, by his decision to let himself be interviewed by a foreign network rather than by an American one. Others argued it to be a good decision; if he truly wants to improve America’s image abroad, reaching out to foreigners is a logical step.

I agree with the second group.| MORE ›

It was reported Wednesday that Republican members of the House of Representatives are planning to vote against the economic stimulus package as it stands. They argue that Democrats have attacked too much pork to the bill and they rightfully argue much planned spending will not ‘stimulate’ the economy at all.

Conservative blogggers, columnists and activists have argued for months now that Republicans should do everything in their power to oppose stimulus packages and bailouts.| MORE ›

The American conservative movement has suffered major setbacks in the last few years. First President George W. Bush, who was seen as a true conservative by many, increased the size of government and U.S. Debt. Second, the Republican Party lost the elections for Congress in 2006, later followed by other electoral defeats in 2008. They lost the White House and they only barely succeeded at hanging on to a filibuster-able minority in Congress.

The above setbacks resulted in infighting among conservatives.| MORE ›