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Issa Subpoenas SEC Over Madoff

Issa Subpoenas SEC Over Madoff Politico reports: The top House investigative committee has launched an inquiry into a former senior Securities Exchange Commission official who investigated the Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and whose family also had an account with the swindler. …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Clinton Visits Tahrir Square

Clinton Visits Tahrir Square Politico reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday walked through Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where barely a month ago Egyptians celebrated the fall of president Hosni Mubarak after weeks of protests there. “To see where this revolution …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Barbour: Scale Back Afghan Presence

Barbour: Cut Back U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Politico reports: America should slash defense spending — and consider shrinking its presence in Afghanistan, Haley Barbour said Monday night. Barbour, a likely candidate for president in 2012, told Iowa county leaders and activists …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Bloomberg Approval Hits New Low

Bloomberg's Rating Hits New Low CNN reports: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has hit his lowest approval rating in eight years, according to a new poll. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, New York City voters disapproved of the job the three-term mayor is …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Is It Time for "Gaza Dictatorship Month"?

While the world is busy marking the annual hate-fest that is Israel Apartheid Week, students at Gaza’s Al-Azhar’s University are being attacked by Hamas. While thousands of students and academics around the world exercise their democratic right to protest in the name of Israel Apartheid Week (an …

Written by Arsen Ostrovsky on Wednesday March 16, 2011

RNC May Sell TV Debate Rights

RNC May Sell TV Debate Rights CNN reports: The Republican National Committee is considering sanctioning the GOP presidential primary debates and then selling the broadcast rights to news outlets, two Republicans with knowledge of the idea tell CNN. The proposal was mentioned …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Watch: Bahraini Protester Shot

Watch: Bahraini Protester Shot

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Sanders: Obama Could Use a Primary Fight

Sanders: Obama Could Use a Primary Fight The Hill reports: One of the Senate's liberal leaders said Wednesday that it would be beneficial for President Obama to face a primary challenger from the left in 2012. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has criticized the president for …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Limbaugh Mocks Japanese Earthquake Survivors

Limbaugh Mocks Earthquake Survivors Courtesy of Media Matters for America : LIMBAUGH: Does anybody know how much it cost to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina? Anybody have the number? Snerdley, they have started it. I have been to New Orleans. They have started …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Emperor 'Worried' About Nuke Crisis

Emperor 'Worried' About Nuke Crisis The New York Times reports: Emperor Akihito of Japan, in an unprecedented television address to the nation, said on Wednesday that he was “deeply worried” about the ongoing nuclear crisis at several stricken reactors and asked for people to …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

CIA Contractor Freed in Pakistan

CIA Contractor Freed in Pakistan The AP reports: An American CIA contractor detained on suspicion of murder was released on Wednesday after families of the two Pakistanis he killed were given "blood money" and the case was dropped, Pakistani officials said. The killings and …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

WH Wants Privacy Bill of Rights

WH Wants Privacy Bill of Rights Wall Street Journal reports: The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a "privacy bill of rights" to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users. …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Report: WH Giving Up on No Fly Zone

Report: WH Giving Up on No Fly Zone The New York Times reports: The barrage here [in Benghazi] offered a loud and ferocious counterpoint to stalled efforts by Western diplomats to agree on help for the retreating rebels, like a no-flight zone, even as Colonel Qaddafi warned the …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Vendetta Time in Egypt?

The Washington Times' Eli Lake is seeing ominous signs that the new Egyptian government may be moving against allies of the former Mubarak regime. Eli Lake discerns some ominous harbingers in Egypt. The detention of an Egyptian industrial leader is raising new fears that those who prospered …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Palin Slides Among Republicans

The latest ABC/Washington Post poll shows that Palin's unfavorable numbers with Republican voters are at an all-time high. The Hill reports : Palin's unfavorable numbers with Republicans are at an all-time high in the new ABC/Washington Post poll released Wednesday, which shows other top …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 16, 2011

What if Sarah Palin Were President Now

With the economy, Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan, Libya and Egypt, the President has a few things to worry about. Does anyone still think Palin was up for the job? The economy, Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. Needless to say, the President of the United States has a few …

Written by Jeb Golinkin on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Qaddafi Forces Assault Rebel Stronghold

Qaddafi Forces Hit Rebel Stronghold The Washington Post reports: AJDABIYA, Libya — Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi stormed into this strategic eastern city on Tuesday, deploying artillery, tanks and rockets to pummel rebel positions in a major effort to suppress a …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Radiation Temporarily Forces Last Workers Out Of Nuclear Plant

Last Workers Temporarily Flee Nuclear Plant CNN reports: Tokyo (CNN) -- Officials asked workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to evacuate temporarily Wednesday after a white cloud of smoke rose above the plant and radiation levels spiked. Workers were "asked to withdraw …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Brooks: Obama In "Ike Phase"

Brooks: Obama in His "Ike Phase" David Brooks writes in the New York Times : On Jan. 20, 1961, John Kennedy delivered his rousing Inaugural Address. But this speech was preceded, as William Galston of the Brookings Institution has reminded us , by an equally important speech: …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011

Japan PM A Near No-Show During Crisis

Japan PM: AWOL During Crisis? The Wall Street Journal reports: TOKYO—Japan has had five prime ministers in as many years, creating a merry-go-round of leadership. Now, for the first time, the country is being plunged into a catastrophe and the costs of weak leadership are becoming …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 16, 2011