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Chinese Artist Urges Cameron on Human Rights

Chinese Artist Urges Cameron on Human Rights The Guardian reports : China 's best-known artist, Ai Weiwei , has urged David Cameron to press Beijing on human rights issues this week, as the prime minister leads the largest-ever British delegation to the country. Writing …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 8, 2010

Bloomberg: Newly Elected Reps "Can't Read"

Bloomberg: Newly Elected Reps "Can't Read" Politico reports : Via Katzblog and Kate Lucadamo , Mayor Bloomberg made two interesting comments while doing an interview with the Wall Street Journal from Hong Kong, where he's traveling in his new role as head of C40 Cities, one …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Noonan Calls Palin a "Nincompoop"

Noonan Calls Palin a "Nincompoop" Peggy Noonan writes : Conservatives talked a lot about Ronald Reagan this year, but they have to take him more to heart, because his example here is a guide. All this seemed lost last week on Sarah Palin, who called him, on Fox, "an actor." She was …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

UN Human Rights Council Takes Aim at US

UN Human Rights Council Takes Aim at U.S. Fox News reports : The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Obama Reveals $10 Billion Export Deal in India

Obama Reveals $10B Export Deal in India The LA Times reports : President Obama on Saturday announced a loosening of U.S. restrictions in trade with India and unveiled almost $10 billion in export deals he said could lead to 50,000 American jobs, as he moved quickly to show a …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Reid Victory Means No Progress on Yucca Mt.

Reid Victory Means No Progress on Yucca Mt. The Daily Beast reports : Majority Leader Harry Reid beat GOP challenger Sharron Angle on Tuesday, helping assure Democratic control of the Senate for the next two years. Unfortunately for U.S. taxpayers, Reid's victory comes with a $40 …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Hurricane Tomas Barely Misses Haiti

Hurricane Tomas Barely Misses Haiti The LA Times reports : Reporting from Leogane, Haiti — At 6 a.m. Friday, Roseanna Nicolas, 50, heard screams from the road. She looked out her door to see a sheet of tea-colored water streaming down the road. Nicolas, her husband …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Mexican Drug Kingpin Killed in Battle

Mexican Drug Kingpin Killed in Battle The LA Times reports : Reporting from Mexico City — The Mexican drug kingpin known as "Tony Tormenta," a top leader of the powerful Gulf cartel, was killed Friday in a ferocious gun battle with military forces in the northern border state …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

US News & World Report to Cease Print Edition

US News & World Report to Cease Print Edition ABC News reports : U.S. News & World Report magazine is going to stop sending its monthly print edition to subscribers next year and go mostly online. Brian Kelly, the magazine's editor, outlined the changes in a memo sent to …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Texas Considers Dropping Medicaid

Texas Considers Dropping Medicaid The New York Times reports : Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Saudis Gave US Intel on Parcel Bombers

Saudis Gave US Intel on Parcel Bombers CNN reports : Washington (CNN) -- The United States received intelligence from Saudi Arabia early last month about a possible terror plot involving the use of at least one airplane, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN on Saturday. …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Russian Reporter Beaten, in Coma

Russian Reporter Beaten, in Coma MSNBC reports : MOSCOW — Two unknown men waited for Russian journalist Oleg Kashin to come home and then bludgeoned him on his head, arms and legs. Yet his editor said it was Kashin's mangled hands — with part of one pinky broken off — that showed …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Somali Pirates Receive Record $12.3m Ransom

Somali Pirates Receive Record $12.3m Ransom BBC reports : Somali pirates are reported to have received a total of $12.3m (£7.6m) in ransom money to release two ships. They are believed to have been paid a record $9.5m (£5.8m) for Samho Dream, a South Korean oil tanker, and …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 7, 2010

Paul Ryan Won't Endorse Bachmann

Paul Ryan Won't Endorse Bachmann Hot Air reports : It didn’t take long for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s decision to run for Conference Chair in the House Republican caucus to get a reaction from her colleagues. Caucus veterans started lining up behind Bachmann’s opponent for the …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Bush Allegedly Thinks Poorly of Palin

Bush Allegedly Thinks Poorly of Sarah Palin The New York Daily News reports : WASHINGTON - Two years of retirement haven't dulled George W. Bush 's political zest - and President Obama and Sarah Palin are among his under-the-radar targets. The 43rd President has told …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Log Cabin GOP Pushes SCOTUS on DADT

Log Cabin GOP Pushes SCOTUS on Don't Ask Don't Tell The Huffington Post reports: SAN FRANCISCO — A Republican gay rights group on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a California trial judge's order barring enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Yemen Plot

Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Yemen Plot CNN reports : The Yemen-based arm of the al Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility Friday for last week's plot to send explosive devices on cargo planes bound for the United States. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Boehner Makes His Promises

Boehner Makes His Promises The Wall Street Journal reports : The members of the 112th Congress must heed this message if there is to be any hope of repairing the shattered bonds of trust between the American people and their elected leaders. And that begins with the speaker of …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Avlon: India Trip is Newest Wingnut Conspiracy

Avlon: India Trip is Newest Wingnut Conspiracy The John Avlon writes : “A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, ” Mark Twain once famously said. In the Internet age, the speed of a politically motivated lie is even faster—case in point, …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010

Economy Adds 151,000 Jobs

Economy Adds 151,000 Jobs The New York Times reports : As President Obama said himself, that was the message in Friday’s Labor Department report, which showed that the United States economy added 151, 000 jobs in October. The gain was certainly a welcome change after …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday November 6, 2010