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Ryan Budget Would Cut $6 Trillion

The New York Times reports : House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a far-reaching budget proposal that cuts $5.8 trillion from anticipated spending levels over the next decade and is likely to provide the framework for both the fiscal and political fights of the next two years. The …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Khimm: How GOP Could Win Entitlement Fight

Suzy Khimm writes at Mother Jones : For Democrats, it seems like a gift from above. On the very day that President Obama officially launches his reelection bid, House budget guru Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announces a plan to privatize Medicare. This latest GOP cost-cutting scheme amounts to a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Alleged Libyan Rape Victim: 'My Life is in Danger'

CNN reports: Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to tell journalists she was beaten and raped by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last month, is no longer in custody but says she still fears for her life. In two telephone interviews with CNN's "AC360," …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Petraeus Looked at for Top CIA Post

NPR reports : General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is expected to leave that job by early fall. And the question has been, where does he go from there? Several sources, including government officials, say Petraeus is being seriously considered for CIA …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Boehner Heads to WH for Talks

The AP reports : President Barack Obama has summoned the top Republican in Congress to the White House on Tuesday for talks aimed at averting a government shutdown this weekend. Negotiations have stalled on legislation blending immediate spending cuts with the money required to run …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

GOP Offers One-Week Stopgap

Politico reports: President Barack Obama called top lawmakers to the White House for a meeting Tuesday, even as House Republicans edged closer to a real government shutdown Friday if the GOP’s demands for domestic spending cuts are not immediately met. A draft bill being prepared by the …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Italy Recognizes Libyan Rebel Govt

The Washington Post reports: TRIPOLI, Libya — Rebels fighting government forces in eastern Libya were bolstered on Monday by new diplomatic recognition and gains on the battlefield as a bid by the government to resolve the country’s crisis by replacing Moammar Gaddafi with one of his sons …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Al-Qaeda Has Freer Reign In Yemen

The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — Counterterrorism operations in Yemen have ground to a halt, allowing Al Qaeda ’s deadliest branch outside of Pakistan to operate more freely inside the country and to increase plotting for possible attacks against Europe and the United States, …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

UN and French Forces Intervene In Ivory Coast

The New York Times reports: AXIM, Ghana — The United Nations and France went on the offensive Monday against Ivory Coast ’s strongman, Laurent Gbagbo , striking targets at his residence, his offices and two of his military bases in a significant escalation of the international …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Brooks: Ryan Budget is a Game-Changer

David Brooks writes in the New York Times : It was a season of fiscal perestroika. Last fall, the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission released a bold report on how to avoid an economic catastrophe. For a few weeks, the think tanks and government offices were alive with proposals to reduce …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Martelly Wins Haitian Election

The Washington Post reports: Iconoclastic carnival singer Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, a stirring orator and political novice, won Haiti’s presidential runoff in a landslide, according to preliminary results issued Monday by electoral council officials. Before he entered politics last …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Sommers: "Crazy U" Takes Down College, Inc.

Christina Hoff Sommers writes in National Review : When Andrew Ferguson attended Occidental College in the 1970s, colleges were already moving away from fussy old requirements like American history, English composition, and foreign languages, and towards the anything-goes curriculum of today. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Applebaum: State Dept Cowers On Internet Freedom

Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post : “We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas.” That was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in January 2010, making what she called “ an important speech on a very important subject .” And there …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Libyan Defector's Accounts Unfrozen

The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration dropped financial sanctions on Monday against the top Libyan official who fled to Britain last week, saying it hoped the move would encourage other senior aides to abandon Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi , the country’s embattled …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Mass Burials Cause Grief In Japan

Time reports: In Higashimatsushima, hollows were dug in the muddied field of a former recycling center. In Yamamoto, unceremonious trenches were tunneled in a vegetable patch. In Minami Sanriku, once a quiet fishing village, tracts of forest have been razed to expose enough bare land for a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday April 5, 2011

Pig's Foot Sent to Rep. King

NBC News reports : A Capitol Hill source tells NBC that the Washington D.C. office of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) was sent a bloody pig's foot with a note attached that contained anti-Semitic ramblings. The note referenced King's controversial hearing last month about Muslim extremism within …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday April 4, 2011

Dems May Propose Counter '12 Budget

The Hill reports : House Democrats are "likely" to propose a 2012 budget bill to counter the much-hyped GOP blueprint set for release Tuesday, according to a House Budget Committee aide. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), the senior Democrat on the Budget panel, is still weighing his options, …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday April 4, 2011

Boehner: $33B in Cuts 'Not Enough'

The Hill reports : Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday that a spending accord with the Senate and White House must contain more than the $33 billion in immediate cuts Democrats have said the two sides already agreed upon. “Despite attempts by Democrats to lock in a number among …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday April 4, 2011

U.S. to Hit Debt Ceiling by May 16

Wall Street Journal reports : The Treasury Department is forecasting that the U.S. will reach its debt limit no later than May 16. The new forecast is more precise than previous projections, which were given in a range. The Treasury Department last month forecast the U.S. would reach the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday April 4, 2011

Troops Open Fire in Yemen

Al Jazeera reports : Yemeni security forces have shot dead at least 16 anti-government demonstrators and wounded 30 in the city of Taiz, south of the capital Sanaa, medics said. The violence began when thousands of protesters marched through Taiz toward Freedom Square, where demonstrator…

Written by FrumForum News on Monday April 4, 2011