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Stocks Rise on Job Numbers

The Wall Street Journal reports : NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. stocks climbed Friday morning after data showed U.S. companies added more jobs than expected in April, even as the unemployment rate rose for the first time in five months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 129 points, or …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Watch: Osama Sees Himself on TV

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Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

CIA: Bin-Laden Actively Ran Al-Qaeda

Politico reports : Osama bin Laden maintained operational control of Al Qaeda from his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a senior U.S. intelligence official said during a Pentagon briefing Saturday, citing material found in the compound. “This compound in Abbottabad was an active …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Huntsman Stepping up Political Campaign

The Washington Post reports : COLUMBIA, S.C. — A week after leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman appeared to edge closer to challenging his former boss for the White House, meeting with top Republican Party leaders here and telling an audience of graduates that …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

ROTC Returns to Yale

Yale Daily News reports : This evening, Yale College faculty did their part to help "clear the way" for the return of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to Yale. A “significant majority” of the roughly 200 faculty members who attended a Yale College faculty meeting late Thursday …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

Al-Awlaki Targeted in Drone Attack

The Wall Street Journal reports : The U.S. launched a drone strike in Yemen on Thursday aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but he evaded the missile, Yemeni and U.S. officials said. The attack came …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday May 7, 2011

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

Watch: Frum on "Real Time with Bill Maher"

On Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher", I joined the panel to discuss Bin Laden's death and the reluctance of some Republicans to give Obama credit. On Friday, I joined Irshad Manji, Peter Bergen, Michael Eric Dyson and Jeremy Scahill on "Real Time with Bill Maher". We discussed last weekend's …

Written by David Frum on Saturday May 7, 2011

GOP Freshmen: Job Numbers Still Too Weak

GOP freshmen were dismissive of Friday's report that the economy had added jobs. Instead, they pushed the White House to do more to boost the recovery and cut energy prices. Friday’s unemployment numbers were greeted almost unanimously by discontentment from freshmen Republican Congressmen over …

Written by Tim Mak 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