President obama took a tougher tone on his strategy. Their, withegin your thoughts. Republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independence 202 7488002. Send us a tweet, go to facebook. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open so start dialing in. Want to get your reaction to what the Washington Post and others say. They will defend their strategy against the Islamic State. Calls,we get to your listen to the president and what was a rare visit to the pentagon. We are hitting ice is stronger than ever. Coalition aircraft have been increasing the pace of airstrikes. Last month would drop more bombs than any other month since this started. Leaders,king out commanders, and killers when my one. Since this spring we have removed one of the top leaders, the second in command. Recruiter and one who broadly murdered americans and others and in recent weeks, their seniorhief, extortion or and a weapons graft or. The list goes on. Were going after isil in downtown rocca. The poin
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Huffington post. My last one was called kings of the hill, a satire, a parity of what we are going through on the hill. Ive been published in the new yorker. Shouts and murmurs. I did a piece during the shutdown in the fiscal cliff debate so writing has always been and im serious about this in any tough job forget being a member of congress. Any tough job, your job brads work in the staff you have to have a release. Some people have yoga and some people go to the gym and some people will watch an old blackandwhite movie or the mets. My release was always just writing and it was always very therapeutic and a salvation actually. I think so long as you continue to rely on congress. I have got a lot to work with. Thank you all very much. Thank you so much and lets thank brad again and the staff at politics and prose. Thank you. [applause] hooks are [applause] thank you, miamidade college. I am proud to be here. I said this a week ago. I dont know of any other institution in america the tit
Its back to school for children in nepal. We begin this news our in iraq where fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and the levant have launched a string of attacks. Eight isil suicide car bombers targeted a headquarters near fallujah. In a separate assault another turn soldiers hide in a rocket attack on an air base east of ramadi. The city has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent weeks. We have the latest from baghdad. With these attacks, we are seeing isil using car bombs to devastating effect. The Iraqi Security forces have a problem, Iraqi Military analysts say that the forces dont have the kind of reconnaissance and intelligence to be able to stop these suicide car bombs in advance. Also some of the weaponry they are using is ineffective against reinforced car bombs and this is something isil are now becoming very very good at. They are splitting iraqi forces in half and are able to attack military bases, as well as civilian targets and military targets. Also were seei
Study says the prices on Health Care Exchanges are pretty good and thats making Companies Take notice. Change is in the air. All of that and more on nightly Business Report for thursday january 30th. Good evening, the u. S. Economy is growing, earnings are coming in strong and that inspires investors to buy stocks today. Stocks came roaring back on news of the u. S. Economy grew at 3. 2 in the final three months of 2013. It was one of the strongest quarters in eight years. And credit goes to solid spending by consumers and businesses and jump in exports. Another batch of healthy earnings contributed to the rally. Today was the busiest day with reports from exxonmobil and visa and 3m and dozens more. Lets rundown pt closing numbers from wall street. The dow rose will 110 points and nasdaq surged 71, a gain of 2 , thanks to a 14 jump in facebook shares and s p was up 20 points. Good earnings across the board but a different story for amazon after the closing bell shares of the worlds Big