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Poll: Govt Growth Bigger Concern Than Default

POLITICO reports : More Americans are worried about the growth of government than by a risk of default if Congress doesn't lift the nation's credit limit, according to a poll released Monday . Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post found that 47 …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

ABC News Probes Bachmann Clinic's Gay 'Cure'

ABC News reports : A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented." …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Pawlenty Camp Hits Romney on Debt Talks

POLITICO reports : With time running out in advance of the Ames Straw Poll, Tim Pawlenty's campaign took aim at Mitt Romney over his stay-mum approach to the highly partisan debt debate raging in Washington, invoking flip-flop imagery via Weisman: "The debt ceiling is a gut-check time …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

NH Defunds Planned Parenthood

The Huffington Post reports : Until July 1, a low-income New Hampshire woman paid an average of $5 to fill a birth control pill prescription at any of the state's six Planned Parenthood clinics. She might have even gotten the birth control for free, depending on her poverty level. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Anti-Gay Church to Picket Betty Ford's Funeral

The Huffington Post reports : The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket this week's funeral services for former first lady Betty Ford in California and Michigan. The website of the Topeka, Kansas-based church said the fringe group will demonstrate at Ford's …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Hoyer on Debt Ceiling: No Votes Without Revenues

The Huffington Post reports : The Democratic House leader in charge of counting votes on legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling warned on Monday that he couldn't guarantee a single vote from his party if revenues weren't part of the deal. His counterpart on the Republican side …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Age In Debt Deal

The Huffington Post reports : In his press conference on Monday morning, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that he was willing to tackle some sacred cows as part of a larger package to raise the debt ceiling. Just how sacred, however, may surprise political observers. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

12 Killed in Blast at Cyprus Navy Base

Reuters reports : The head of the Cypriot navy, a navy base commander and six firefighters were among 12 people killed early on Monday by a blast at a munitions dump which knocked out the island's biggest power station, police said. The firefighters were called to the Evangelos Florakis …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Boehner: House Won't Back Deal With Tax Hike

The Associated Press reports : Speaker John Boehner says he agrees with President Barack Obama that the nation's borrowing limit must be raised to avoid a government default but insists that House Republicans won't back any deal with tax increases. Talking to reporters shortly before a …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

DSK's French Accuser Heard By Paris Police

The Associated Press reports : French police investigators have taken a statement from a French writer who contends former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her. Tristane Banon brought a criminal complaint last week, and the Paris prosecutor's office has …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Pro-Immigrant Group Calls For Cain To Leave Race

The Huffington Post reports : Somos Republicans, a national pro-immigration organization, wants former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain to abandon his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in the next election cycle. Controversial remarks Cain recently made on the issue of …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Cantor Hopeful On Debt Deal

Reuters reports : House of Representatives Republican leader Eric Cantor said on Monday he was hopeful that both sides could come together on a bipartisan deal to reduce the U.S. debt but said he still opposed any increase in taxes in 2013. Cantor, who was speaking to reporters before a …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

York: Ryan Accuser Won't Talk

Byron York writes : Susan Feinberg, an associate professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, caused a stir in the left-wing blogosphere over the weekend with her account of witnessing House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan drinking a glass of $350-a-bottle wine at an …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Panetta Seems To Tie Iraq Invasion To War On Al-Qaeda

The Washington Post reports : Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday appeared to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq as part of the war against al-Qaeda, an argument controversially made by the Bush administration but refuted by President Obama and many Democrats. Panetta made his …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Obama Calls On GOP To Compromise In News Conference

The Associated Press reports : President Barack Obama declared on Monday there would be no deal on raising the government's debt limit if Republicans won't compromise, and he said he would not sign a short-term extension — raising the stakes on volatile negotiations with the clock ticking …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Club for Growth Slams Lugar, Hatch on Debt Ceiling

The Hill reports : The Club for Growth is running television advertisements warning two veteran Republican senators facing primary threats, warning them to vote against any increase in the debt ceiling or face repercussions. The deep-pocketed fiscally conservative group also attacked Senators …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Murdoch Paper Got Former PM's Medical Records

Politico reports : Rupert Murdoch will delay indefinitely his attempted $19 billion acquisition of satellite provider BSkyB as new revelations surfaced that the private medical records of then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s family were illegally obtained by other News Corp. outlets, …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

U.S. Tells Yemen Leader To Leave Office Soon

Politico reports : The Obama administration’s chief counter terrorism adviser told Yemen’s troubled president during a face-to-face meeting that he needs to “fulfill expeditiously” his promise to resign. John Brennan met with Ali Abdullah Saleh in Saudi Arabia, where he is recovering …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Panetta to Iraq: Make a Decision

Politico reports : Defense Secretary Leon Panetta let his frustration about Iraqi officials’ indecision on whether to request that U.S. troops stay in the country past the end of the year show while talking to troops in Baghdad on Monday, saying, “Damn it, make a decision.” Panetta’s …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

House GOP Balking At Defense Cuts

Politico reports : After months of tough talk, House Republicans ran away from defense cuts last week –and that spells more trouble now for deficit reduction talks at the White House, already beset by differences over taxes. In three days of floor debate, even modest reductions at the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011