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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – South African President Jacob Zuma says Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi has accepted the African Union’s “road map” for a cease-fire with rebels. Zuma and other African leaders traveled to Tripoli to meet Qaddafi on Sunday and will be in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Monday to meet leaders of the [...]

Cato Campaign finance “reform” advocates like Sen. John McCain are often heard to complain that official candidates’ ads can get lost in the clutter of ads from independent groups — as if the election belonged to the candidates, not the people. Now McCain has taken this theme a step further: He doesn’t like think tanks [...]

Daily Caller: Washington is busy anointing winners and losers in the 11th hour spending deal struck late Friday to avert government shutdown, but meanwhile the staffs of the House and Senate appropriations committees are busy at work negotiating the fine print. “The agreement was on overall funding levels and some of the more controversial policy [...]

Wall Street Journal: The budget deal reached Friday would affect two initiatives contained in last year’s health-care law that were bitterly opposed by businesses, killing one outright and slashing funding for the other. The agreement would eliminate a provision of the health-care law enabling low-income workers to opt out of employer-offered health insurance and shop [...]

Fox News: Though the eleventh-hour budget deal brokered after days of intensive negotiations was widely seen as a win for Republicans, Tea Party activists and the lawmakers aligned with them are divided over whether to support it. Conservatives for months have been pushing for $61 billion in cuts. What they got was $38.5 billion, as [...]

Fox News: A top White House adviser on Sunday decried Donald Trump’s recent public appearances as a “sideshow,” saying the American people will not be swayed by the questions he’s raised about President Obama’s citizenship. Polls show that the billionaire reality star’s popularity has been on the rise as he’s taken up the so-called “birther” [...]

“Most of ‘em or dead, some of ‘em are in shock”

MEXICO CITY (AP) – At least one U.S. citizen was among dozens of men reportedly forced off passenger buses by armed attackers in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, where 72 bodies were found in mass graves last week, U.S. officials said Sunday. The man has yet to be located, said a warden’s message posted [...]

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ihatethemedia.com If you made up this story and stuck it in a movie, no one would believe it. It’s incomprehensible. Just plain incomprehensible. CBS2 Chicago reports: The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn. The [...]

Fox News: Fresh off winning nearly $40 billion in cuts to the rest of this year’s budget, congressional Republicans on Sunday began listing their demands ahead of the next crucial spending fight on Capitol Hill. Entitlement reform, spending caps, a balanced-budget amendment and an overhaul of the budget process are among the items on that [...]

Washington Times: Israel’s security agencies are stepping up targeted attacks throughout the world on Hamas‘ leadership in what one Israeli official called “intelligence-based prevention.” In the past two months, Israeli operatives have intercepted a German ship in international waters, fired a missile at a suspected Hamas leader in Sudan, and captured a Hamas engineer in [...]

Politico: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that White House senior adviser David Plouffe is not being honest when he says that President Barack Obama has been leading the discussion on cutting taxes and reducing the deficit. “We’ve had to bring this president kicking and screaming to the table to cut spending,” Cantor [...]

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