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Why No Labels Makes Sense
The launch of the centrist group "No Labels" provides a new way to address issues that can't be reduced to party dogma. The launch of the new centrist group "No Labels" has sparked much criticism from the right and the left. But as I argue in my latest column for The Week , the project provides a …Drone Kills British Muslim Converts
Drone Kills British Muslim Converts The Telegraph reports : The men, one of whom was apparently called Steve, died five days ago when a Hellfire missile was fired from a remote controlled American drone in the town of Datta Khel. If confirmed, they would be the first white …
Snowe Pledges Repeal of DADT
Snowe Pledges Repeal of DADT The Portland Press Herald reports : U.S. Sen. strong> Olympia Snowe
Limbaugh Calls for Government Shutdown
Limbaugh Calls for Govt Shutdown Media Matters for America provides the audio :More Students Smoke Pot, Not Cigarettes
More Students Smoke Pot, Not Cigarettes Mother Jones reports : In the past month, 21 percent of high school seniors smoked pot, while just 19 percent lit up a cigarette. That's according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) annual Monitoring the Future survey , released …
DeMint Ends Demand To Read START Treaty Out Loud
DeMint Ends Demand To Read START Treaty Out Loud Politico reports : South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint backed off his demand Wednesday to force a full reading of the New START treaty, a move that may ease a legislative logjam amid a flurry of activity in the waning days of the …
Obama Still Polls Strongly With Women Voters
Obama Still Polls Strongly With Women Voters National Journal reports : Pres. Obama is still in good standing among women voters who supported him in 2008 but abandoned Democrats in 2010, according to a new Democratic survey released Wednesday. The survey was conducted for …
Did China Develop the Stuxnet Virus?
Did China Develop the Stuxnet Virus? Forbes reports : Does China Benefit By Attacking Natanz? In 2008, China decided to assist the IAEA inspectors after it learned that Iran was in possession of blueprints to shape uranium metal into warheads, according to this article …
Houses Passes Stand-Alone DADT Repeal
Houses Passes Stand-Alone DADT Repeal Politico reports : By a 250-175 vote, the House on Wednesday passed a stand-alone bill that would end the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy — a move supporters believe can build momentum for Senate passage in the final days of …
Korean Nuke Program Outpaces Iran
Korean Nuke Program Outpaces Iran The New York Times reports : WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has concluded that North Korea ’s new plant to enrich nuclear fuel uses technology that is “significantly more advanced” than what Iran has struggled over two decades to …
Ireland Prevents Bank Bonus Payout
Ireland Prevents Bank Bonus Payout The New York Times reports : LONDON — Allied Irish Banks , the lender that is being bailed out by the government, has decided not to award senior staff about 40 million euros ($53 million) in bonuses for 2008 after the country’s finance …
Admiral Mullen Impatient With Pakistan
Admiral Mullen Impatient With Pakistan The New York Times reports : ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — America’s top military officer visited Pakistan ’s capital on Tuesday, carrying what he called a strong sense of “strategic impatience” with the government here over its failure to …
Chavez Undertakes Dictatorial Powers
Chavez Undertakes Dictatorial Powers Reuters reports : (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved on Tuesday to bypass parliament and rule by decree for a year in South America's biggest oil producer, prompting opposition accusations of behaving like a dictator. The …
RNC Candidate's Firm Got Clients Stimulus Funds
F F has learned that RNC Chair candidate Reince Priebus' firm lists him as a lawyer on a team which helps clients secure federal stimulus funds. Frum Forum has learned that Reince Priebus, the state chair for the Wisconsin GOP and a current RNC Chair candidate, is listed as working as a …
How Gridlock is Created
With 1,177 presidential appointments already needing Senate confirmation, are we asking Congress to do too much? Maybe we're just asking Congress to do too much? From a new report by EJ Dionne and Bill Galston on the calcification of the presidential appointments process: When Ronald Reagan …DOJ Sues BP
DOJ Sues BP The AP reports: The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The Obama administration's lawsuit asks that the …
Christmas Bomber Didn't Act Alone
Christmas Bomber Didn't Act Alone The Detroit Free Press reports: A Nigerian man accused of trying to detonate a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 was indicted today on federal terrorism charges. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, has previously been …