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Obama, Cameron Discuss Libya Response

U.S. & U.K. Discuss Libya Response The AP reports: President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed Tuesday to plan for the "full spectrum of possible responses" on Libya including an arms embargo and a no-fly zone. The White House emphasis on a full …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Fenty Backs Walker in Union Standoff

Fenty Backs Walker in Union Standoff The Washington Post writes : Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this morning got some rare Democratic support for his high-profile push to eliminate most state workers' collective barganing rights -- from former D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

GOP Working on Second Stopgap

GOP Working on Second Stopgap The Hill reports: House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says Republicans are preparing to move a second short-term funding measure to avert a potential government shutdown. McCarthy told reporters Tuesday morning the Senate does not have …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Debt Panel Chairs Rip Budget Plans

Debt Panel Chairs Rip Budget Plans The Hill reports: The former co-chairmen of the president’s bipatisan debt commission on Tuesday blasted both President Obama's 2012 budget and congressional Republican plans to cut spending. The two chairmen said both would fail ward off a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Reid Blames GOP for Spending Vote Delay

Reid Blames GOP for Delay in Spending Bill Votes The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused Republican leaders Tuesday of backing out of an agreement to hold votes on competing Republican and Democratic spending plans. Reid said Republican leaders …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Watch NPR Exec: 'Tea Party is Racist'

Watch NPR Exec: 'Tea Party is Racist' Politico reports: James O’Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Dems: Walker Broke Law on Prank Call

Dems: Walker Broke Law on Prank Call TPM reports: Wisconsin Democrats are continuing their fire on Gov. Scott Walker's infamous phone call with blogger Ian Murphy, who was posing as Republican financier David Koch, in which Walker spoke of his passion for busting the public …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

GOP Split Over King's Radical Islam Hearings

GOP Leaders Split Over Radical Islam Hearings Politico reports: The top two House Republican leaders are divided over how to handle the bubbling controversy surrounding Homeland Security Chairman Peter King’s hearing into “radicalization” in the American Muslim community. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Egyptian Women March for Rights

Egyptian Women March for Rights The Guardian reports: Activists in Cairo are calling for a million women march on Tuesday to coincide with International Women's Day. In Cairo the march will begin in Tahrir Square, scene of the mass sit-in during Egypt's revolution that was …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Report: Qaddafi Tries to Cut Deal with Rebels

Report: Qaddafi Trying to Cut Deal with Rebels CNN reports: Moammar Gadhafi is trying to strike a deal with opposition leaders, saying he will step down as Libya's leader if they can guarantee him safe passage out of the country and promise that neither he nor his family will face …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Senate to Vote on Spending Bills

Senate to Vote on Spending Bills The Hill reports: Senate Democrats and Republicans will face off Tuesday on critical votes that will be a key marker on the budget negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown. Leaders in the chamber are expected to hold a vote Tuesday …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Named New Ambassador To China

Locke to be New China Ambassador Politico reports: President Barack Obama has chosen Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to succeed Jon Huntsman as U.S. ambassador to China – signaling a more focused White House effort to press Asia’s emerging economic superpower on trade issues, …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Applebaum: Marines Shouldn't Go Back To Tripoli

Applebaum: Arab World Doesn't Want Our Help Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post : I ' m listening hard, but I just can't hear the "voices around the world" that my colleague Charles Krauthammer said last week are "calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Outgoing Hill Staffers Enjoy Final Bonuses

Outgoing Hill Staffers Enjoy Final Bonuses The Wall Street Journal reports: Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records. The 96 lawmakers paid their …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Momentum Builds Behind Anti-Islamic Groups

Anti-Islamic Groups Build Momentum Politico reports: Deep suspicions about Islam in America — about to take center stage in controversial congressional hearing — are also galvanizing an increasingly organized and professional set of political groups, organizations that may play a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Gratzer: The Conservative Case For Fighting Fat

Gratzer: The Conservative Case For Fighting Fat David Gratzer writes at the Washington Examiner : Does it really matter how many ribs Michelle Obama ate on her vacation? For too many conservatives, the answer seems to be yes, with pundits poking fun at the anti-obesity guru's dinner …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Darnah, Qaddafi's So-Called "Islamic Emirate"

Qaddafi's So-Called Islamic Emirate The New York Times reports: DARNAH, Libya — This fiercely independent port city on the Mediterranean coast, once the center of a simmering Islamist insurgency in the 1990s, is now branded by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as an Islamic emirate …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich Makes "First Day" Promises

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Brooks: The New Emotional Enlightenment

Brooks: The New Emotional Enlightenment David Brooks writes in the New York Times : Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust that marred that society. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

NPR Chief Denies Liberal Bias

NPR Chief Denies Liberal Bias The Hill reports: NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller defended taxpayer funding for public broadcasting Monday and challenged critics to find any evidence of liberal bias in NPR's coverage. Schiller said the accusation that public broadcasting …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 7, 2011