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Aide: Boehner Wants Immediate Spending Cuts

Reuters reports : Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner pushed for immediate spending cuts at Monday's debt-reduction meeting with President Barack Obama and fellow congressional leaders, a Republican aide said. "The speaker took issue with Democrats' suggestion that most of …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

France: Libyan Envoys Say Gadhafi Is Ready To Go

The Associated Press reports : France's foreign minister said Tuesday Paris has had contact with emissaries from Moammar Gadhafi who say the embattled Libyan strongman is "prepared to leave." Alain Juppe said that while the contacts do not constitute proper negotiations, "everyone (involved …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

U.S. Trade Deficit Jumped in May

The Associated Press reports : The trade deficit in the United States surged in May to the highest level in more than two and a half years, driven upward by a big increase in oil imports. The Commerce Department said the deficit increased 15.1 percent to $50.2 billion in May. That’s the …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

York: Fresh Doubt Cast On Obama's Health Care Story

Byron York writes : During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment. …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

Brown: Murdoch Paper Hired "Known Criminals"

The New York Times reports : Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought new and alarming charges on Tuesday to the broadening scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch ’s media empire in Britain, accusing one of the most prestigious newspapers in the group of employing “known criminals” to …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

Why Children Need Setbacks to Learn

Betsy Hart writes : "Our children are not our masterpieces," Wendy Mogel is fond of saying. A clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, she is the author of "The Blessings of a Skinned Knee." And she's the wise and oft-quoted voice in Lori Gottlieb's provocative piece, "How to Land Your Kids in …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

Rubio's Brother in Law was a Drug Trafficker

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 12, 2011

You Read it First at FrumForum

Two papers are reporting that excess housing is slowing down the recovery, something that would be familiar to FF readers. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek both have articles discussing how excess housing supply is slowing down the economic recovery. This would not be news to …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Tuesday July 12, 2011

GOP Losing Touch With Economic Reality

In the debt debate the President has the bully pulpit and the GOP is getting its clock cleaned. President Obama’s news conference this morning confirmed the age-old truth: a President has the bully pulpit. More people saw, or will see in some format, the President’s remarks today than …

Written by Steve Bell on Tuesday July 12, 2011

Israel Bans Pro-Palestine Boycotts

The New York Times reports : The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements, making such action a punishable offense. Critics and civil rights groups denounced …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

14 U.S. States Suffer Drought

The New York Times reports : The heat and the drought are so bad in this southwest corner of Georgia that hogs can barely eat. Corn, a lucrative crop with a notorious thirst, is burning up in fields. Cotton plants are too weak to punch through soil so dry it might as well be pavement. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Vaccine Ruse Used to Pursue Bin Laden

The New York Times reports : In the months before Osama bin Laden was killed, the Central Intelligence Agency ran a phony vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a ruse to obtain DNA evidence from members of Bin Laden’s family thought to be holed up in an expansive compound …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Poll: Govt Growth Bigger Concern Than Default

POLITICO reports : More Americans are worried about the growth of government than by a risk of default if Congress doesn't lift the nation's credit limit, according to a poll released Monday . Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post found that 47 …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

ABC News Probes Bachmann Clinic's Gay 'Cure'

ABC News reports : A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented." …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Pawlenty Camp Hits Romney on Debt Talks

POLITICO reports : With time running out in advance of the Ames Straw Poll, Tim Pawlenty's campaign took aim at Mitt Romney over his stay-mum approach to the highly partisan debt debate raging in Washington, invoking flip-flop imagery via Weisman: "The debt ceiling is a gut-check time …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

NH Defunds Planned Parenthood

The Huffington Post reports : Until July 1, a low-income New Hampshire woman paid an average of $5 to fill a birth control pill prescription at any of the state's six Planned Parenthood clinics. She might have even gotten the birth control for free, depending on her poverty level. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Anti-Gay Church to Picket Betty Ford's Funeral

The Huffington Post reports : The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket this week's funeral services for former first lady Betty Ford in California and Michigan. The website of the Topeka, Kansas-based church said the fringe group will demonstrate at Ford's …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Hoyer on Debt Ceiling: No Votes Without Revenues

The Huffington Post reports : The Democratic House leader in charge of counting votes on legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling warned on Monday that he couldn't guarantee a single vote from his party if revenues weren't part of the deal. His counterpart on the Republican side …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday July 11, 2011

Fox News Struggles to Replace Glenn Beck

Fox News has a new TV show to fill the 5pm slot that Glenn Beck had. But is "The Five" just lazy filler? How do you replace Glenn Beck's bizarre and rambling hour of television? If you come up with programming on Fox News, you decide that 5pm is a great time to do a conservative version of …

Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday July 11, 2011

Slow Recovery? Blame the Housing Boom

Why has recovery been so weak and slow? Businessweek argues: because we are still unwinding the consequences of the housing boom of the 2000s. Why has recovery been so weak and slow? Businessweek argues : because we are still unwinding the consequences of the housing boom of the 2000s. …

Written by David Frum on Monday July 11, 2011