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British SAS Unit And Diplomat Captured By Libyan Rebels

British SAS Unit Captured In Libya Sky News reports: Up to eight members of an SAS unit and a British diplomat have been detained in Libya, it has been reported. According to the Sunday Times, the elite soldiers are believed to have been escorting the junior diplomat through a …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

Egyptians Storm Secret Police HQ

Egyptians Storm Secret Police HQ The BBC reports: Egyptian protesters have stormed the headquarters of the secret police in Cairo, demanding that the organisation be dismantled. It followed rumours that officials were destroying documents that could be used in court to prove human …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

ATF Agent: I Was Ordered To Let Guns Into Mexico

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

Heavy Gunfire Heard Throughout Tripoli

Heavy Gunfire Heard In Tripoli The BBC reports: Heavy and sustained gunfire has broken out in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. A BBC correspondent said machinegun and heavy weapons fire could be heard across the city. It is not clear what the source of the fire was or who started …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

Lowry: Obamacare's Ingenious New Justification

Lowry: Obamacare's Ingenious New Justification Rich Lowry writes in National Review : "I can take care of my enemies all right, ” Warren Harding once said. “But my friends, my damn friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!” In the sense that so irked …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

Obama Praises Jeb Bush On Education

Obama Praises Jeb Bush On Education Politico reports: MIAMI – Seeking support for increasing the country’s investment in education, President Barack Obama appeared at a high school here on Friday with an unlikely ally he described as a “champion of education reform” - Jeb Bush, …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

Egyptian Military's Business Endeavors Complicate Aid

Egyptian Army Profits Complicate US Aid The New York Times reports: In the late 1990s, the Pentagon announced that it would contribute tens of millions of dollars to a 650-bed International Medical Center that the Egyptian military was building in the desert outside Cairo. The …

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Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 6, 2011

What US Learned by Talking to Muslim Brotherhood

What U.S. Learned in Talks with Muslim Brotherhood Writing in The New Republic , Eli Lake reviews America's history of Islamist outreach: The current wave of democratic uprisings in the Middle East is a welcome development. But it will almost certainly empower long-suppressed …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

The Golden Age of Book-Buying

The Golden Age of Book-Buying Christopher Caldwell writes in the Financial Times : Borders became one of the hottest corporate chains of the 1990s because it didn’t do things by halves. Its bookstores were of an unheard-of size and sophistication. They stretched not just from …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Reid Offers New Spending Plan

Reid Offers New Spending Plan The Washington Post reports: Senate Democrats on Friday introduced their plan for keeping the federal government funded through September, with a vote on the measure as well as a House-passed proposal expected to come as early as next Tuesday. …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Walker Moves to Begin Layoffs

Walker Moves to Begin Layoffs The Washington Post reports: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) Friday began the process for laying off 1,500 state employees, escalating the bitter standoff over his legislation to sharply curtail collective bargaining rights for public employees. …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Obama 'Appalled' by Libya Violence

Obama 'Appalled' by Libya Violence The Washington Post reports: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi escalated their fiercest counterattack yet against the opposition on Saturday, laying violent siege to a rebel enclave by shelling residential neighborhoods and rolling …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Photo Shows Giffords Seconds Before Shooting

Photo Shows Giffords Seconds Before Shooting CBS News reports: A picture snapped less than a minute before Tucson's horrific mass shooting shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords doing what her staff says "she loves to do; talk to her constituents." Standing in front the Safeway store on …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

New Egyptian PM Cheered By Tahrir Crowds

Tahrir Sq Crowd Meets New Egypt PM The Washington Post reports: In Egypt, the huge crowd that had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square cheered as the country's newly appointed prime minister waded into throngs of protesters and asked for their support and help. "I draw my legitimacy …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Yemen Fires On Friday Protesters

Yemen Fires On Protesters The BBC reports: Houthi rebels in north Yemen say the armed forces have fired on their anti-government protest. The Shia rebels claim two people were killed and at least seven were injured in the incident in the northern province of Amran, reports say. …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

NASA Rocket Crashes Into Ocean After Liftoff

NASA Rocket Crashes Into Ocean The USA Today reports: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) — It looks like the rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite was in the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt early Friday,  NASA said. The Taurus XL rocket carrying …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Libyan Rebels Continue To Push West

Libyan Rebels Continue Push West The New York Times reports : RAS LANUF, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels in east Libya said on Saturday they were pushing further west after driving out forces loyal to  Muammar Gaddafi from the oil town of Ras Lanuf a day earlier. Rebel soldiers told …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

DeMint: Time To Defund Public Broadcasting

DeMint: Defund PBS Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) writes in the Wall Street Journal : When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it's time to get the government out of public broadcasting. While executives at the Public …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

Palin Gets Testy With O'Reilly

Palin Gets Testy With O'Reilly Politico reports: Sarah Palin got a little frustrated with Bill O'Reilly Friday night, telling the Fox News host not to interrupt her while she tried to explain her position on entitlement reform. "Up here in Alaska we have the four second delay," …

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011