Los Angeles Times: Ben Nelson, the Senate’s most conservative Democrat and one of the party’s most endangered incumbents, is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not seek a third term in 2012, a Democratic source confirmed. Though the Nebraskan often voted with Republicans, Nelson’s decision would be a blow to Democratic hopes of retaining [...]
(USA Today) — President Obama Monday set a new personal one-year golfing record while serving as president. And, as he vacations in Hawaii, the First Golfer still has time to add to that record. After golfing at a Marine Corps base Monday, Obama has so far totaled 32 golf outings this year, topping the totals [...]
Daily Caller: A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — filled when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections — reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t [...]
Daily Caller: In a statement released on Monday, a 16-year former aide to Texas Rep. Ron Paul writes that the presidential candidate “was opposed to the war in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11,” but ultimately voted “Yay” [sic] in the face of a threatened staff rebellion and near-certain political [...]
Arizona Republic: Local Latino community leaders and activists called for the resignation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Monday and asked that his officers change their tactics and stop what they call racial profiling. Antonio Bustamante, a civil-rights attorney and director of Los Abogados, Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association, said federal Judge Murray Snow’s ruling [...]
(Express Tribune) — The Unites States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed the name of Afghan Taliban supreme commander Mullah Muhammad Omar from its list of “most wanted terrorists”. Earlier, reports about the US establishing contacts with Omar had surfaced. The reports said that the US wanted to bring the Taliban to negotiation table [...]
Big Government: On the evening of Sept. 16, 2009, I was invited to a function for Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform. I had been invited by a friend of mine via Facebook who was a passionate supporter of Ron Paul. Within minutes of arriving, I saw Rep. [...]
Daily Caller: Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes is blaming agents with the Transportation Security Administration for removing his employer’s logo from his bag and ultimately damaging his luggage as he traveled by air over the holiday weekend. In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Starnes, the host of the Fox News & Commentary [...]
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ABC: The babysitter charged with the murder of Aliahna Lemmon, who disappeared from an Indiana trailer park last week, bludgeoned the 9-year-old girl with a brick and then dismembered her with a hacksaw, according to a police affidavit. Michael Plumadore admitted that he beat Aliahna to death, stuffed her body into trash bags and hid [...]
Klein Online: The hackers known as “Anonymous,” who helped organize and support the Occupy movement’s protests, have released an online a survivor guide for citizens “in case of a violent revolution in your country.” The guide warns protests can be a “bloody mess.” It trains rioters on how to avoid tear gas, rubber bullets and [...]
Byron York In Washington Examiner: Ron Paul is surging in the Republican presidential race. Just not among Republicans. The Texas congressman is leading some polls in Iowa and is in a tie for second in New Hampshire. A candidacy once dismissed as sideshow is now being taken very seriously; the front page of Monday’s Des [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The White House plans to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit before the end of the week, according to a senior Treasury Department official. The debt limit is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by December 30. President Barack Obama is expected to ask for [...]
