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Violent Storms Kill Dozens In Southeast

The Washington Post reports: RALEIGH, N.C. — Brutal spring storms kept up their fury as they raged across the East Coast on Saturday, flattening businesses, flipping cars and destroying homes, killing more than a half dozen people in North Carolina and Virginia. In all, 24 people …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Nuke Leak Will Take Months to Plug

BBC News reports: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has said it expects to bring the crisis under control within nine months. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it aimed to reduce radiation leaks in three months and to cool the reactors within an extra three …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Dems: Fracking Fluids Are Toxic

The Wall Street Journal reports: WASHINGTON -- The drilling fluids used to recover natural gas and oil from deep shale formations contain substances identified as human carcinogens, or listed as hazardous under federal clean air or water rules, according to a report issued late Saturday by …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Raul Castro Wants Term Limits

BBC News reports: Cuban President Raul Castro has said top political positions should be limited to two five-year terms, and promised "systematic rejuvenation" of the government. President Castro was speaking at the start of the first congress of Cuba's ruling Communist Party in 14 years. …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Bachmann: Obama's "Not On Our Side"

Politico reports: Michele Bachmann laced into President Barack Obama at a South Carolina tea party rally Saturday, saying his decision to take military action in Libya was "foolish" and that he's "not on our side anymore." Bachmann’s appearance in Bluffton, a coastal town near the Georgia …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Japanese Search Teams Enter Irradiated Zone

The Wall Street Journal reports: NAMIE, Japan—Nearly five weeks after search teams first combed northeastern Japan's tsunami-devastated shorelines for victims, they have ventured to the coastal town of Namie—once a hamlet of 20,000 people, now a time capsule of the March 11 tsunami's …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

FAA Revises Air Controller Schedules

The Wall Street Journal reports: Starting early next week, the FAA has decided to revamp work schedules for the nation's air-traffic controllers to eliminate those practices most likely to cause fatigue. The decision comes as Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt was informed …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday April 17, 2011

Syria To Lift Decades-Old Emergency Law

BBC News reports: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he expects a state of emergency to be lifted next week, after weeks of anti-government protests. He made the comments in a televised speech to his newly formed cabinet. The lifting of the 48-year-old emergency law has been a key …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Court Dissolves Mubarak's Party

The Washington Post reports: CAIRO — Former president Hosni Mubarak’s political party was ordered disbanded Saturday by an Egyptian court, the Associated Press reported, in a concession to protesters who have increasingly questioned whether the revolution that toppled Mubarak more than …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

How Hoyer and Boehner Saved the Deal

The passage of the FY11 budget is only one win, but Boehner and Hoyer's ability to cobble together the needed votes is a hopeful sign for budget battles to come. Those of us in politics need to be careful about overreacting to or over-interpreting a single event. As any sports fan knows, an …

Written by Les Francis on Saturday April 16, 2011

AZ Legislature Passes Birther Bill

The AP reports : The state of Arizona has moved onto contentious political territory once again with the legislative passage of a bill requiring President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state's ballot. …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Wall Street to GOP: Don't Mess Up Debt Ceiling Vote

The Wall Street Journal reports : During a recent series of meetings and fund-raisers, top Wall Street executives and lobbyists have urged Republicans to resolve the debt-ceiling debate quickly or risk turmoil in the bond market. In the sessions, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Nuke Plants Prep for Aftershocks

The AP reports : Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday. The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Ignatieff's Wink to Anti-Israel Voters

Liberal candidate Michael Ignatieff may not have mentioned Israel in this week's debate, but those who follow the issues closely saw signals of a return to Canada's old Mideast policies. Michael Ignatieff used this week’s English-language leaders debate to send dog whistle signals to anti-Israel …

Written by David Frum on Saturday April 16, 2011

Nine Killed In Afghanistan Base Attack

BBC News reports: Five foreign and four Afghan troops have died in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a military uniform hit an Afghan army base near the city of Jalalabad, the Afghan defence ministry said. Coalition officials said five …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Karzai Allegedly Taking Iranian Bribes

The Washington Times reports: Iran began delivering money to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as early as 2003, a former Afghan official says. “It started in a sort of transparent manner when I was the foreign minister, ” Abdullah Abdullah , now Afghanistan ’s top opposition leader, …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Berkowitz: Yale Sexism Lawsuit Has High Costs

Peter Berkowitz writes in the Wall Street Journal : Last month, 16 Yale students and recent graduates filed a confidential complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights alleging that in violation of Title IX—which bans sex discrimination in schools—Yale maintains a …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

Wehner: Trump Focuses On Absurdities

Peter Wehner writes in the Wall Street Journal : Thanks to Donald Trump—real-estate mogul, reality-TV star, and possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination—a fringe conspiracy theory is now front and center in American politics: the claim that President Barack Obama might not …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

25th Anniversary Of US Bombing Of Libya

The Washington Post reports: TRIPOLI, LIBYA —Moammar Gaddafi’s glamorous daughter, Aisha, showed a different public face Friday morning, delivering a defiant and venomous speech to an adoring crowd from the ruins of a building in her father’s Tripoli compound, 25 years to the day after it …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011

The Original Human Language?

The Wall Street Journal reports: The world's 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday April 16, 2011