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U.S. Open to Qaddafi Exile Deal

ABC news reports : Is there a deal in the works to give Moammar Gadhafi safe haven out of Libya? Lots of tantalizing clues out there this morning, with the NY Post and the Times of London reporting that Italian officials are developing a plan that would grant Gadhafi immunity from war …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

GOP Fiscal Hawks Plan Rival Budget

Politico reports : If House Republican leaders are looking to tighten the nation’s fiscal belt, the budget hawks in the conservative Republican Study Committee want to apply it as a tourniquet. Their tool: an ambitious fiscal 2012 alternative budget that will challenge the official GOP …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

GOP Fights Over RNC Voter File

Roll Call reports : Quietly so far, a power struggle is now under way for control of one of the Republican National Committee’s most valuable assets: its voter file. The file, which has been built at the cost of many millions of dollars over many years by state Republican parties …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Pentagon: Air War Cost $550M

The Hill reports : The Libyan intervention to date has cost Washington over $550 million, and U.S. costs should hold steady at around $40 million per month, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. As U.S. forces led the way in taking out Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s air defense and …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Libyan Troops Sue Alleged Rape Victim

The New York Times reports : In the latest turn in the case of Eman al-Obeidy, a Libyan woman apprehended by security forces for trying to tell journalists that she had been raped by members of the Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s militia, a government spokesman said Tuesday that the …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Obama's Real Libya Goal: Regime Change

Obama’s Libya speech was intended to reassure voters that the U.S. was only intervening to save lives and not pushing for regime change. Unfortunately, it's just not true. It was a good speech, but it told us nothing that we don’t know. President Barack Obama’s intent was to reassure the …

Written by Peter Worthington on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Would the Real Birthers Please Stand Up?

When the first GOP presidential debate gets held, there's one question that should be asked as preliminary screening to separate the sane from the cynical or crazy. When the first Republican presidential debate gets held, there is one question that should be asked by the moderator to perform …

Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Pawlenty Calls Out Trump's Birtherism

CNN reports : Donald Trump should quit questioning President Obama's birthplace, says Tim Pawlenty, a potential future opponent of Trump's for the Republican presidential nomination. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Pawlenty said he doesn't doubt Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii and …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

DC Reviews Student Test Scores

USA Today reports : The District of Columbia's Board of Education will hold a hearing next week on irregularities in public school test scores, even as former chancellor Michelle Rhee defended the integrity of test results that showed unusual "erasure rates" from wrong answers to right. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Carter to Meet Fidel & Raul Castro

CNN reports : Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter continues his trip to Cuba on Tuesday, where he is expected to have a face-to-face session with President Raul Castro. On Monday, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, landed in Havana for a private visit aimed at reducing tension between the …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Rebels Running Out of Weapons

Al Jazeera reports: Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are resisting an advance by Libyan rebels towards the embattled Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte in the fiercest clashes since the start of a sweeping offensive that has brought a string of coastal towns under opposition control. The …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Tea Party to Sponsor NASCAR

The Hill reports : Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Just in time for the 2012 election cycle, the Tea Party plans to sponsor a NASCAR racing vehicle. But not just any vehicle: a Camping World Truck Series truck. TheTeaParty.net announced Monday that the red No. 89 truck …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Syria's Cabinet Resigns

The AP reports : Syria's Cabinet resigned Tuesday to help quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago, threatening President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule in one of the most authoritarian nations in the Middle East. Assad, whose family has controlled Syria for four …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Ethnic Voter Outreach: Canadian Style

Canada's Conservatives have launched new ads in ethnic languages like Mandarin. They provide an important lesson to a GOP still unable to connect with minority voters. In the ongoing Canadian election campaign, we’re seeing a lot of examples for ethnic outreach done right – especially with the …

Written by Tim Mak on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Pawlenty Rips WH on Syria

The Hill reports : Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) called on President Obama to recall the U.S.'s ambassador to Syria while criticizing his handling of the unrest there. Pawlenty, who is expected to run against Obama, said the president's decision to restore America's ambassador …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Qaddafi Son Had U.S. Internship

CNN reports : Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son, who runs the country's elite special forces for his father's regime, was on an internship program in the United States when public unrest exploded in Libya last month. Khamis Gadhafi abruptly cut off his visit and returned to …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

PM: Japan on 'Maximum Alert'

BBC reports : Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor building. Officials say the …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Wall Street Fights New Loan Risk Regs

Bankers are objecting to a new regulation that would require them to keep a percentage of loans on their own books. But don't expect anyone to buy their argument. Bankers object to a new regulation requiring them to keep a percentage of their loans on their books: "If we have to keep these loans …

Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 29, 2011

Responding to David Keene

Whenever I'm attacked in David Keene's Hill column, I console myself that for a very reasonable $2 million I could buy myself a year's worth of favorable ones. Whenever I'm attacked in David Keene's Hill column (as happened again today ), I console myself that for a very reasonable $2 million …

Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 29, 2011

BP Managers May Face Manslaughter Charges

Bloomberg reports : Federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue manslaughter charges against BP Plc (BP/) managers for decisions made before the Gulf of Mexico oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, according to …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 29, 2011