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(Reuters) – – The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims. The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries over five continents for the April 26-27 conference in Washington. “The summit will [...]

Politico: State polls show gathering storm Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only institution held in low esteem by voters this year. According to a POLITICO review of publicly available polling data, numerous state legislatures are also bottoming out, showing off-the-charts disapproval ratings accompanied by stunning levels of voter cynicism. It all adds up to [...]

Fox News: This much we know for sure: J.D. Hayworth thinks John McCain is not really, truly a conservative. He makes that clear in an online campaign ad that depicts the Arizona senator as “Nominee for Best Conservative Actor.” The ad (click here to view it), clearly an Academy Awards sendoff, portrays McCain bursting out [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors Co. will reinstate 661 dealerships it sought to drop from its sales network. GM executives said Friday that the dealerships — more than half of those seeking to stay with the automaker — will receive letters giving them the option to remain open. GM said it would not have [...]

Associated Press excerpt from story titled “When Raw Anger At The Government Turns Violent”: In an Internet posting, Bedell had suggested an act like the 2001 terrorist attacks could have been the work of a criminal organization controlling the U.S. government, accepting a “sacrifice of thousands of its citizens … as a small cost in [...]

Bloomberg: March 5 (Bloomberg) — Striking Greek workers shut down transport and tried to storm parliament as lawmakers passed 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in budget cuts, including wage reductions, needed to trim the region’s biggest budget deficit. Police with riot shields fired tear gas as demonstrators wearing biker helmets and ski masks pelted them [...]

Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Friday that based on the Obama administration’s budget proposal, it projects deficits over the next decade to be $1.2 trillion higher than the administration estimates. A preliminary analysis of the president’s budget by the CBO projects a $1.43 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2011, [...]

The Hill: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is seeking bipartisan support to block Senate Democrats from using special parliamentary tactics to pass healthcare reform. The Democratic strategy of using reconciliation to pass changes to the healthcare bill is reminiscent of Republican attempts to force President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees through with a simple majority vote, [...]

The Daily Caller: Chances for a health-care bill grew dimmer on Thursday, by most indications, but House Democrats may have found a way to force the Senate to work with them that would remove a key roadblock to passing the reform desired by President Obama. Call it a “hold-plus-reconciliation” strategy. The House could pass the [...]

STL Today: Two students at the University of Missouri-Columbia were suspended Wednesday after their arrests in a case of cotton balls thrown across the lawn of the campus black-culture center. Campus police on Tuesday evening arrested the students, one of whom is from the St. Louis area, on suspicion of a felony hate crime. The [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta’s parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country. The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam and an imperialist in downtown Jakarta as well as [...]

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