Kissinger Endorses Nixon’s Grandson

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has given a political endorsement to the grandson of the President he once served.

Chris Cox, the grandson of President Richard Nixon, is running in New York’s first Congressional district’s Republican primary. On Monday, his campaign released a statement Monday night touting a brief statement from the 87 year-old Kissinger.

“I endorse Chris Cox. I believe he will exercise vigorous and honest leadership,” Kissinger said.

Politico has more.

Carter Going To North Korea

It appears as if Jimmy Carter will soon be pulling a Bill Clinton.

Foreign Policy magazine says that the former President will be traveling to North Korea to negotiate the release of a 30-year old Boston resident who was arrested earlier this year for entering North Korean territory from China.

Carter is going alone as a private citizen, and the trip is not being sanctioned by the U.S. government, although it has been reported that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) initially was planning to travel to the secretive nation.

FDA Commissioner Hints At More Egg Recalls

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told several news shows Monday that there may be additional egg recalls on the horizon.

To date, over 500 million eggs have been recalled due to a salmonella outbreak. According to Hamburg, approximately 1,000 have been affected to date.

CNN has more on the recalls… 

First Ladies To Speak At 9/11 Event

First Lady Michelle Obama and Laura Bush will both appear at a ceremony next month to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The ceremony will take place in at the future site of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The memorial will commemorate the passengers who overpowered the flight’s high-jackers and prevented the plane from reaching Washington, D.C.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will be in attendance as well.

More Protests Over Proposed Mosque Near WTC

Two demonstrations, one for and one against the proposed construction of a Muslim community center two blocks away from the World Trade Center site, took to the streets of Manhattan’s financial district Sunday afternoon.  

 

A few hundred opponents of the project, some of whom were wearing construction hard hats,various tri-state area firefighter t-shirts and motorcycle club vests, marched two blocks down West Broadway brandishing posters and signs until they reached police barriers outside Ground Zero. They carried a wide variety of signs, some emphasizing sensitivity and respect for the victims of 9/11 , others linking Muslims to Nazis, depicting the Mosque leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a terrorist supporter and linking Islam to Osama bin Laden.

 

Demonstrators chanted  “Sharia no, Freedom yes” and “No Mosque Here”, and a few even tried to start a “No more 44’” chant but received a half hearted response. The rally was for the most part peaceful, and although a few heated arguments broke out in the crowd, they were quickly broken up by other protesters.