The Hill: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said there’s at least a 50-50 chance he’ll run for president again in 2012. Paul, the libertarian Republican who ran for the GOP nomination in 2008, hinted that he could be preparing another bid in two years. “I’d say it’s at least 50-50 that I’ll run again,” Paul told [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama’s tax compromise with Republicans faces its first major test Monday, as the Senate prepares to cast a procedural vote on the $858 billion bill renewing the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans. The bill appears likely to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to cut off debate, setting up final passage as [...]
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Fox News: Casting an unmistakable and perhaps permanent pockmark on the face of the Obama administration, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a major component of the new health care reform law is unconstitutional. Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday for the state’s claim that the requirement for people to purchase health care [...]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who angered Washington by releasing secret cables, said in a documentary on Sunday he faced prosecution by the United States and was disappointed with how Swedish justice had been abused. Assange has been remanded in custody in Britain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Sweden, which [...]
Washington Post: Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela in 2009, U.N. arms control data show, despite vigorous U.S. efforts to stop President Hugo Chavez’s stridently anti-American government from acquiring the weapons. The United States feared that the missiles could be funneled to Marxist guerrillas fighting Colombia’s pro-American government or Mexican drug [...]
Fox News: It is the irony of ironies if you believe one leading economist’s characterization of President Obama’s tax cut deal. As Republicans prepare to take over the House next month — having swept to power by railing against reckless spending in Congress — they are now backing what Mark Zandi calls a second “stimulus.” [...]
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