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Protests Follow Friday Prayers

Protests Follow Friday Prayers The New York Times reports: In what has become something of a weekly appointment for displaying disaffection with unresponsive governments, thousands of people poured into the streets across the Arab world to protest after noon prayers on Friday. …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 5, 2011

How Qaddafi Punked Italy

How Qaddafi Punked Italy Maurizio Molinari writes at ForeignPolicy.com: In each of my three conversations with Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi throughout the 1990s, one theme prevailed: the Libyan leader's contempt for my country. Listening to his verbose condemnation of Italian colonialism …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Palin Backs Westboro Ruling

Palin Backs Westboro Ruling Huffington Post reports: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin clarified a response she offered to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold an appeals court ruling that protesting outside military funerals is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Beck: Hillary's Comments on Al Jazeera 'Insanity'

Beck: Hillary's Remarks on Al Jazeera 'Insanity' Huffington Post reports: On his Friday radio show, Glenn Beck called Hillary Clinton's comments about Al Jazeera and U.S. media "insanity," and said she was "promoting" a channel he called "the propaganda arm of the Middle East and …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Boehner Moves to Defend DOMA

Boehner Moves to Defend DOMA The Hill reports: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a step Friday toward formally defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. Boehner took the action a week after President Obama instructed the Department of Justice to cease its …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Loughner Indicted on 49 Counts

Loughner Indicted on 49 Counts Washington Post reports: A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted accused Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner on 49 counts in the January rampage that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others and left six dead, including a chief federal …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Poll: GOP Voters Back Social 'Truce'

Poll: GOP Voters Back Social 'Truce' Wall Street Journal reports: The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll appears to vindicate Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's repeated insistence that the country needs a “truce” on fights over social issues while it grapples with its mounting …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Obama Hits Up Big Dem Donors

Obama Hits Up Big Dem Donors Politico reports: President Barack Obama’s 2012 fundraising team has begun nailing down major cash commitments from top donors during a coast-to-coast “listening” tour — the surest sign to date that the vaunted Obama money machine is back in business. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Boehner: I Can Sell Voters on Benefit Cuts

Boehner: I Can Sell Entitlement Cuts to Voters Wall Street Journal reports: House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Police Fire on Protesters in Tripoli

Tripoli Rocked by Protests BBC reports: Libyan security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters after Friday prayers in Col Gaddafi's stronghold of Tripoli. A BBC reporter in the flashpoint eastern suburb of Tajoura said demonstrators had burnt the official …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Jobless Rate Drops to 8.9%

Jobless Rate Drops to 8.9% CNN reports: The U.S. jobs market rebounded in February, and unemployment fell below 9% for the first time in nearly two years, the latest signs of an improving economy. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 192,000 last month as private-sector employers added …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Judge to Protesters: Leave Capitol

Judge Orders Protesters to Leave WI Capitol ABC News reports: A judge has ordered pro-union protesters occupying Wisconsin's state Capitol in Madison to leave the building -- though the public will be allowed back inside when normal business hours resume at 8 a.m. Monday, prompting …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Manning on Suicide Watch

Manning on Suicide Watch The New York Times reports: A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

WH Proposes Extra $6.5B in Cuts

WH Proposes Extra $6.5B in Cuts The Washington Post reports: The White House proposed Thursday to trim an additional $6.5 billion from federal programs this year as Vice President Biden opened talks with congressional leaders aimed at funding the government through Sept. 30 and …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

China To Boost Defense Spending Nearly 13 Percent

China To Boost Defense Spending Nearly 13 Percent The BBC reports: China is to increase its defence budget in 2011, amid fears in the region that its military might is growing. Spending will increase by 12.7% to 601.1bn yuan ($91.5bn; £56.2bn) up from 532.1bn yuan last year, a …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Krauthammer: Bush Doctrine Led To Arab Uprisings

Krauthammer: Thank Bush For Arab Spring Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post : Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi. Yet for bringing down Saddam Hussein, the United States has been …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Libyan Rebels Won't Negotiate With Qaddafi

Rebels Won't Negotiate With Qaddafi The BBC reports: Rebels in eastern Libya have said they will not negotiate unless Col Muammar Gaddafi quits and goes into exile. The National Libyan Council in the city of Benghazi also called for foreign intervention to stop government air …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Harvard To Invite ROTC Back To Campus

Harvard Brings Back ROTC The New York Times reports: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Nearly 40 years after Harvard expelled the Reserve Officers Training Corps program from its campus, university officials announced Thursday that they would officially recognize the Naval R.O.T.C. Harvard was …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Finding Qaddafi's Hidden $70 Billion

Finding Qaddafi's Hidden $70 Billion The New York Times reports: LONDON — As the battle for Libya rages on, the struggle over control of the country’s sovereign wealth fund and its $70 billion in assets has just begun. With a sizable pot of ready cash and stakes in a few …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011

Former FBI Agent Missing In Iran Confirmed Alive

Former FBI Agent Missing In Iran Confirmed Alive The BBC reports: Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish four years ago, is alive, the US Department of State says. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there were indications he …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday March 4, 2011