Daily Tribune: An Oakland County lawmaker is taking aim at the Transportation Security Administration and how its agents perform airport passenger security checks. State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, wants to make it a misdemeanor for any TSA employee to “conduct an intrusive, personal search on citizens without reasonable cause.” The legislation introduced Thursday by [...]
New York Times: In Deborah Brown’s family lore, the American South was a place of whites-only water fountains and lynchings under cover of darkness. It was a place black people like her mother had fled. But for Ms. Brown, 59, a retired civil servant from Queens, the South now promises salvation. Three generations of her [...]
The Hill: When President Obama announces troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, he will do so with a more natural ally headed to the Pentagon. CIA Director Leon Panetta was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday as the successor to Robert Gates, one of the most respected Defense secretaries in history. In Panetta, a former budget [...]
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Los Angeles Times: Angry voters, helped by social media and ‘tea party’-like fervor, are organizing recall votes at a record pace against politicians they don’t like. The new president of Arizona’s state Senate, Russell Pearce, had only 21 days to enjoy that position before opponents began circulating petitions in January to recall the freshly reelected [...]
Fox News: If the U.S. economy were a neighborhood, the housing market would be the Boo Radleys: the one weird neighbor who doesn’t mow his lawn, lets his house fall to pieces and generally drives down resale values for the whole street. Put another way, the slumping housing market is serving as a drag on [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed. The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 [...]
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The Guardian: Barack Obama is set to reject the advice of the Pentagon by announcing on Wednesday night the withdrawal of up to 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by November next year, in time for the US presidential election. The move comes despite warnings from his military commanders that recent security gains are fragile. They have [...]
The Hill: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday it is “crunch time” for negotiators led by Vice President Biden to forge a deal to reduce the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. “From my assessment, it’s crunch time in those meetings,” Cantor told reporters. “We have hit the point at which we are [...]
