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Bartlett: Debt Limit Will Hurt the Treasury

Bruce Bartlett writes : On Monday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner notified Congress that the public debt limit will become binding within two weeks and Treasury will no longer be able to borrow additional funds. Nevertheless, Congress is taking its time on raising the debt limit , with …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

U.S. to Release Bin Laden Home Videos

The AP reports : The world is expected to get its first glimpse at Osama bin Laden's daily life as the world's most wanted terrorist Saturday with the disclosure of home videos showing him strolling the grounds of the fortified compound that kept him safe for years. The footage shot at …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Taliban Attack Kandahar

BBC reports : Fighting is taking place in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after militants launched a series of attacks. The provincial governor's office, the Afghan spy agency and a police station have been targeted. There have been at least six suicide attacks, and about 23 people, …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Rudy 'Can Be Talked Into' 2012 Run

Politico reports : Rudy Giuliani called for a return to American exceptionalism Friday, telling a group of GOP lawyers gathered in the nation’s capital that Ronald Reagan fundamentally changed how Americans felt about themselves. Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said, much …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Powell: Obama Beat the Birthers

Politico reports : Colin Powell told graduates of South Carolina's premier historically black university that they were graduating during a tumultuous time that saw a royal wedding, a pope's beatification and a U.S. military assault that killed Osama bin Laden, "the worst person on earth." …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

U.S. Tells Pakistan: Find Osama's Help

The New York Times reports : Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama bin Laden or his agents in the years before the raid that …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Haley Impressed with Huntsman

Huffington Post reports : South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came away impressed from her meeting with potential Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, but cautioned that the discussion was too short to fully assess the former U.S. Ambassador to China and governor of Utah. “It …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Obama: Drilling Not the Answer to High Gas Prices

The Hill reports : President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can’t drill its way out of high gas prices. “We can’t just drill our way out of the problem, ” Obama said during an energy …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Qaddafi's Forces Using Land Mines

The New York Times reports : Military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi scattered antitank land mines on the port of this besieged city late Thursday night, threatening once more to close the city’s only route for evacuation and supplies, according to accounts of witnesses, …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Raid Yields Intel on Zawahiri

CBS News reports : The intelligence community has obtained "positive intelligence" from the materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound which is helping narrow down the locations of core al Qaeda leadership including the whereabouts of Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda's former No. 2 man and …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

GOP Committed to Medicare Overhaul

The Washington Post reports Senior Republicans said Friday that they are committed to a controversial overhaul of Medicare and will continue to support it as part of their deficit-reduction plan despite strong White House opposition. The late-afternoon proclamation came at the end of a …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Embassy Bomber Set for Extradition

The Guardian reports A Saudi man accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the bombings of two US embassies expects to be extradited to face charges after more than 12 years in British custody, according to documents which have emerged from a US court. Prosecutors in New York have …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Left Claims Torture Slowed Hunt for Osama

The Huffington Post reports Torture apologists are reaching precisely the wrong conclusion from the back-story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, say experienced interrogators and intelligence professionals. Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Democrats Press Obama on Hamas

Politico reports Twenty-seven Senate Democrats wrote President Obama today to urge him to weigh in vocally against the Palestinian Authority's peace deal with the Gaza group Hamas. "The United States should stand by its refusal to work with any Palestinian government that includes Hamas," …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Obama Thanks Navy SEALs

The AP reports : President Barack Obama says that because of the incredible skill and courage of countless intelligence and military professionals, the terrorist leader who struck the U.S. on 9/11 "will never threaten America again." Obama traveled to Fort Campbell in Kentucky on Friday …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Newt Hires Prez Bid Manager

iWatchNews reports : Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will tap Rob Johnson to manage his GOP presidential bid, iWatch News learned Friday . Rick Tyler, Gingrich’s long time communications aide who will be campaign press secretary, said Johnson will get the top campaign post. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Rubio: Review Use of Waterboarding

The Tampa Tribune reports : Saying that the U.S. government "can learn from a successful operation like you can learn from a mistake," Sen. Marco Rubio said it is time to revisit the issue of waterboarding — an interrogation technique practiced during the George W. Bush administration and …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Gates: Bin Laden's Death Could Help Afghan Mission

Politico reports : In his first public comments since the killing of Osama bin Laden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the leader’s death could benefit U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. “Frankly, I think it’s too early to make a judgment in terms of the impact inside Afghanistan, …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

UK Voters Reject Voting Revamp

Bloomberg reports : The U.K. rejected an overhaul of the voting system for national elections, a victory for Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron at the expense of his Liberal Democrat deputy, Nick Clegg. Both parties said their coalition government will stick to its deficit-reduction …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011

Taliban Promise Revenge Attacks

Reuters reports : Heavily armed Taliban fighters, appearing in a video purporting to show frontline militants in southern Afghanistan, have said the killing of Osama bin Laden will inspire them to continue fighting until all foreign troops have left the country. It was impossible to …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday May 6, 2011