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Graham: Raise Retirement Age to 69

Graham: Raise Retirement Age The Hill reports: Congress should cut a deal this year to raise the retirement age to 69, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said. Graham, who'd flirted last month with an increase in the retirement age to help address Social Security's solvency, backed a …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

White House Press Pool: Obama Shutting Us Out

White House Press Pool: Obama Shutting Us Out The Hill reports: White House reporters criticized President Obama on Wednesday for providing too little information and access to the media during the crisis in Egypt. In a letter to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, the …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Clinton: US in 'Uncharted Territory'

Clinton: US in 'Uncharted Territory' CNN reports: In the midst of mass uprisings and historic change in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a gathering of U.S. diplomats Wednesday that "we are all in uncharted territory." Pointing to a range of challenges, …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Navy Captain: Higher-Ups Okayed Videos

Navy Captain: Higher-Ups Okayed Racy Videos CNN reports: The Navy captain whose high-flying career was clipped over his raunchy videos shown aboard the USS Enterprise now says his superior officers knew what he was doing and repeatedly praised him. Capt. Owen Honors defiantly …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Gibbs to Mubarak: Stop the Violence

Gibbs to Mubarak: Stop the Violence CNN reports: The time for a political transition in Egypt "is now" because the Egyptian people "need to see change," and a "meaningful transition must include opposition voices and parties being involved in this process as we move toward free …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

WikiLeaks Nominated for Nobel Prize

WikiLeaks Nominated for Nobel Prize Reuters reports: Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired. The Norwegian Nobel Committee …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Army Wants to Upgrade Rifle

Army Wants to Upgrade Rifle Wall Street Journal reports: For the first time in almost 50 years, the U.S. Army wants to replace the standard rifle shouldered by hundreds of thousands of frontline troops around the world. The service this week advertised its interest in a new …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Romney's Sticking by Romneycare

It's conventional wisdom that the Dems' health bill has hurt Romney's 2012 bid. But lately, he's been providing a stout defense of his Mass. health reforms. It has become conventional wisdom that the passage of President Obama's health care reform measure killed Mitt Romney's White House ambitions…

Written by Zac Morgan on Wednesday February 2, 2011

South Dakota Bill Would Introduce "Gun Mandate"

South Dakota Bill Would Introduce "Gun Mandate" The Argus Leader reports : Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.” The bill, which would take …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Did Qatari Citizens Help Plan 9/11?

Did Qatari Citizens Help Plan 9/11? The Telegraph reports : Secret documents strong> reveal that the three Qatari men conducted surveillance on the targets

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Why Aren't The Unemployed Protesting Here?

America isn't Egypt, but it's remarkable that we haven't had angry protests in the United States. Jon Stewart has some fun with Fox News personalities like Glenn Beck who worry that "we might become Egypt." Yes silly obviously. But behind the silliness is a serious question: Isn't the most …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Anderson Cooper Attacked by Pro-Mubarak Mob

Anderson Cooper Attacked by Pro-Mubarak Mob Mediaite reports: CNN’s Anderson Cooper has been attacked while reporting for the network in Egypt. The anchor, who’s been reporting nearly nonstop since the weekend, described the attack to viewers this morning shortly after a Twitter …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Mubarak Allies Clash with Protesters

Mubarak Allies Clash with Protesters The New York Times reports: Thousands of demonstrators for and against President Hosni Mubarak , some on horses and camels, fought running battles in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Wednesday, despite a call from Egypt ’s powerful military …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Yemen's Prez Won't Seek Reelection

Yemen's Prez Won't Seek Reelection New York Times reports: President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen said on Wednesday that he would not run for re-election when his term ends in 2013, a stunning concessions to protesters that marked yet another reverberation of the anger that has …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Egypt's Army: End the Protests

Egypt's Army: End the Protests Wall Street Journal reports: Egypt's army called on protesters to return home Wednesday, and Internet connections were restored, as the government moved to restore some normalcy after a wrenching week of protests. "You have the power to bring …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Army Ignored Warning Signs About Manning

Army Ignored Warning Signs About Manning Washington Post reports: A mental health specialist recommended that the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks not be deployed to Iraq, but his immediate commanders sent him anyway, …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Quick Recovery from BP Spill Expected

Quick Recovery from BP Spill Expected The New York Times reports : The Gulf of Mexico should recover from the environmental damage caused by the enormous BP oil spill last year faster than many people expected, according to new estimates in reports commissioned by Kenneth R. …

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Huckabee: Release Jonathan Pollard

Huckabee: Release Jonathan Pollard Israel National News reports : Visiting United States Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed his support on Tuesday for the release of Jonathan Pollard, who has served 25 years of a life sentence for passing classified informatio…

Written by FrumForum News on Wednesday February 2, 2011

Bachmann: 'Naked' Body Scan Pics Could Get Online

Bachmann: 'Naked' Body Scan Pics Could Get Online MinnPost reports: Michele Bachmann won't go through the full-body scanners at airports anymore, she said, because she's concerned that "naked pictures" of herself will wind up on the Internet. It wasn't a response to a …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday February 1, 2011

Meet the Father of the Individual Mandate

Klein: Meet the Father of the Individual Mandate Ezra Klein writes at the Washington Post : In 1991, economist Mark Pauly was the lead author of a Health Affairs paper attempting to persuade President George H.W. Bush and his administration to adopt a universal health-care …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday February 1, 2011