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Reuters: A move to stop funding for President Barack Obama’s military intervention in Libya was narrowly defeated in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, underscoring Congress’ unhappiness with the undeclared war. Both political parties split over the measure, highlighting how tensions over U.S. involvement in Libya’s civil war have crossed party lines and created [...]

NY Post: Don’t look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn’t the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in the face of Attorney General Eric Holder — and maybe other administration officials, too. [...]

Care2.com: In a 73-27 vote, Senate members from both parties recently voted to put an end to the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) which many said was wasteful and costly in a time of extreme economic instability in the United States. Ethanol, which is made from corn or sugar cane, was initially lauded as [...]

I just have to wonder if this is not a message.. Maybe I am over thinking it.. maybe not. MyFoxOrlando: If traffic management and crowd control aren’t good reasons for Orange County deputies to keep people away from the Anthony Family home on Suburban Drive, perhaps the risk of incurring the wrath and furry of [...]

King5.com: AUBURN, Wash. – Buying his own home was a big accomplishment for construction worker, Ikenna Njoku, of Auburn. He’s only 28 years old. “I was really excited. For the first time, I actually got to buy a lawn mower, mow my lawn and everything,” said Njoku. Njoku qualified for the first time home buyer [...]

CNBC: Warren Buffett tells CNBC that Congress is playing a “silly” game of “Russian roulette” by threatening not to raise the nation’s debt limit as it debates deficit reduction. “We should be more grown up than that.” HOW BUFFETT WOULD FIX THE DEFICIT In a live interview (full transcript here) on Squawk Box from Sun [...]

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Its time to call out every candidate and office holder and hold them to the standards they want to set on us! Party shold not matter. PoliticusUSA: Most Americans will be familiar with Janet Porter’s “Heartbeat Bill,” an anti-Women’s Reproductive Rights law out of Ohio, which criminalizes abortion and which was backed by Newt Gingrich [...]

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Sounds to me like they are sorry they got caught.. they haven’t figured out that people are paying closer attention to their actions than ever before. Gateway Pundit: Oops. After the uproar from last week, the Obama Administration took Israel off their terror watch list. The JTA reported, via Yid with Lid: Israel was included [...]

Telegraph: The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World. The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the personal details of the families of servicemen who died on the front line have been found in the files of [...]

LA Times: ORLANDO, Fla.— A judge sentenced Casey Anthony on Thursday to four years for lying to investigators but says she can go free in late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior. While acquitted of killing and abusing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, [...]

Reuters: A small team of Treasury officials is discussing options to stave off default if Congress fails to raise the country’s borrowing limit by an August 2 deadline, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Senior officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, have repeatedly said there are no contingency plans if lawmakers do not [...]

Daily Caller: A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. government on Wednesday to immediately cease enforcing the ban on openly gay members of the military, a move that could speed the end of the 17-year-old rule. Congress repealed the policy in December and the Pentagon is already preparing to welcome gay military personnel, said the [...]

Yahoo News: When the White House announced that President Obama would hold a “Twitter Town Hall” in July by answering questions posed through the social media site, Republicans in Washington jumped at the opportunity, inundating the platform with questions, snarky comments and calls for action. The president answered a series of questions, not all of [...]

WSJ.com: A top House Republican leader suggested a way to end the continuing stalemate over taxes in the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiations, saying Wednesday that Republicans could endorse ending some business tax breaks targeted by Democrats if they also agreed to renew other business-backed tax benefits. The proposal by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.), [...]

LA Times: U.S. and Mexican officials Wednesday resolved a cross-border long-haul trucking dispute that will lift punitive tariffs on about $2.4 billion in U.S. products. Under the agreement, which ends a nearly two-decade ban on Mexican trucks entering the United States, Mexico will halve the punitive customs duties within the next 10 days and remove [...]

Powerline Blog: This morning, there was a stunning development in Congress’s investigation of the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running program: it was revealed that on July 4, Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Obama administration’s intended fall guy in the scandal, broke ranks with his [...]