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Sebelius: GOP Bill Cuts Off Medicare Benefits

Sebelius: GOP Bill Would Cut Off Medicare Benefits The Hill reports: Republican plans to choke off funding for implementing the healthcare reform law would prevent Medicare from paying benefits for millions of seniors, according to the Obama administration's top health official. …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

WH: Speed Up Health Care Case

WH: Speed Up Health Care Case Politico reports: The Obama administration has asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite consideration of the health care reform law — the second step in a process set in motion by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson. Vinson ruled in …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Illinois Ends Death Penalty

Illinois Ends Death Penalty The Chicago Tribune reports : SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. The governor said he followed his conscienc…

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Obama Retreats on Gitmo

After sober reflection, President Obama has reluctantly come to the right conclusion that the ideal place to keep suspect terrorists is Gitmo. In the natural order of things, U.S. President Obama should perhaps consider apologizing to his predecessor, George Bush the Younger. Except he …

Written by Peter Worthington on Wednesday March 9, 2011

NH Debates Birther Bill

NH Debates Birther Bill The Hill reports: Lawmakers in New Hampshire are set to debate a measure Wednesday that would require any candidate who wants their name on the state's presidential primary ballot to provide a birth certificate. But backers of the proposal say it isn't …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Obama Jokes About Birther Rumors

Obama Jokes About Birther Rumors CNN reports: President Obama joked about the ongoing "birther" debate surrounding his birthplace at a Democratic fundraiser in Boston Tuesday night. "I think there's nothing – there's no weakness in us trying to reach out and seeing if we can …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

The Fair Trade Racket

“Fair Trade” coffee is promoted everywhere. But far from helping third world farmers, "fair trade" practices are luring the world's poor into a distorted market. “Fair Trade” coffee is promoted everywhere, from companies such as Starbucks to my university's campus. Its advocates argue that the …

Written by Harry Graver on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Daley Mends Obama Cabinet Rift

Daley Mends Obama Cabinet Rift Washington Post reports: News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

O'Keefe: I Targeted NPR Over Juan Williams' Firing

O'Keefe: I Targeted NPR Over Juan Williams' Firing CNN reports: The conservative activist responsible for producing an undercover video showing a National Public Radio senior executive slamming the Tea Party as "racist" and "scary" is speaking out about why he went after the …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

House Investigates Health Law Waivers

House Investigates Health Law Waivers The Hill reports: Republicans on a second House panel with oversight power are investigating waivers the Obama administration has awarded to more than a thousand organizations for a provision of the healthcare reform law, The Hill has …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

NPR CEO Resigns

NPR CEO Resigns CNN reports: National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday, according to NPR. Schiller's resignation comes a day after Ron Schiller, NPR's former senior vice president for fundraising, was shown in an undercover video calling the Tea Party …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Levin Wants a Shutdown: Real Americans Don't

Tuesday, Mark Levin upbraided the GOP leadership as cowardly for not shutting down government. But a new poll reveals why that could be a disaster. Tuesday, during the opening monologue on his radio show , Mark Levin upbraided the GOP leadership as cowardly for not shutting down government. …

Written by Jeb Golinkin on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Trump Promises June 'Surprise'

Trump Promises June 'Surprise' Politico reports: Donald Trump is talking up his White House bid and promises a June "surprise," he said in an interview. “I will make a decision by June – and it may surprise you,’’ Trump, who has been making the media rounds to talk about his …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Newt: I Did 'Things That Were Wrong'

Newt: I Did 'Things That Were Wrong' Politico reports: Newt Gingrich addressed his multiple nuptials and admitted affairs more head-on than he has to date, telling the Christian Broadcast Network that he sought God's "forgiveness" for the things he did wrong and that he now has …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

King Defends Past IRA-Support

King Defends Past IRA-Support The New York Times reports: For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Blago: Call off Retrial

Blago: Call off Retrial Politico reports: Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is asking a federal judge to cancel his upcoming retrial and to sentence him on his one conviction from his previous trial. In a motion filed early Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

US Sees Stalemate Forming In Libya

US Sees Libya Entering Stalemate The Wall Street Journal reports: The U.S. believes Col. Moammar Gadhafi has solidified control in parts of Libya, creating a stalemate with rebels and raising the stakes in the Obama administration's internal debate about whether to take military …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Manchin: Obama "Failed To Lead" On Budget

Manchin: Obama "Failed To Lead" on Budget Politico reports: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin ripped President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who clearly is worried about the politics of deficit …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

George F. Will: Questions On Libya

George F. Will: Questions On Libya George F. Will writes in the Washington Post: Following an attack, he said, "I shall run wild considerably for the first six months or a year, but I have utterly no confidence" after that. Yamamoto knew America: He had attended Harvard and been …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011

25 Killed In Pakistan Intelligence Office Bombing

25 Dead In Pakistan Bombing The Washington Post reports: A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack and said it was aimed at the intelligence office, the Associated Press reported. Police said the bomb, which was detonated at a gas station, …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday March 9, 2011