Friday, May 25, 2012

POLITICS


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    • Romney: Obama doesn't get free-enterprise system

      By Associated Press
      Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is trying to counter President Obama's argument that Mr. Romney would bring back Republican Party economic policies that have proved unworkable.

    • Food-stamp fraud spurs a crackdown

      By Sam Hananel - Associated Press
      Food-stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards.

    • Missouri opts for untested drug for executions

      By Jim Salter - Associated Press
      The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who question how the state can guarantee a drug untested for lethal injection won't cause pain and suffering for the condemned.

    • Inside Politics: Hitting Haley effigy used in ad against 'big labor'

      By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
      South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is using video of a union leader whacking a pinata with an image of her face as a campaign fundraiser.

    • PHILLIPS: Iran nuclear talks: The coalition must hold fast

      By James Phillips
      The nuclear talks with Iran, resumed this week in Baghdad, face a risky and uncertain future. While this round of talks will not resolve the problem posed by Iran's nuclear weapons push, it could help clarify whether Tehran's steady progress toward a nuclear weapon can be halted without military action.

    • North Dakota Democrat hopeful distancing self from Obama

      By Henry C. Jackson and Dale Wetzel - Associated Press
      North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded.

    • Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon too close to filmmakers

      By Larry Margasak - Associated Press
      A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

    • Romney sees D.C. school vouchers as model for U.S.

      By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
      Mitt Romney vowed Wednesday to expand Washington's school voucher program as part of a broader nationwide push for school choice, and he accused President Obama of failing to fulfill his own education promises from 2008 because he is too beholden to teachers unions.

    • Secret Service prostitute scandal reveals pattern, senators contend

      By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
      The director of the Secret Service told Congress on Wednesday that the recent Colombian prostitution scandal was a one-time occurrence, but deeply skeptical lawmakers said he is in denial and the evidence points to a larger pattern of misconduct within the agency charged with protecting the president.

    • High-level officials partied with GSA in Vegas

      By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
      More than a dozen General Services Administration employees and executives from Washington were listed as attendees for the lavish taxpayer-funded Las Vegas conference in 2010 that featured magic shows, a mind reader and a red-carpet event where federal workers acted like Hollywood movie stars.

    • Woman on diverted US Airways jet claimed to have implanted device

      By Associated Press
      Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant that mentioned she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

    • Senate panel hears of wider Secret Service misbehavior

      By Alicia A. Caldwell and Laurie Kellman - Associated Press
      The lawmaker leading an inquiry into the Secret Service prostitution scandal reported dozens of "troubling" episodes of past misbehavior Wednesday and appealed to insiders to come forward with what they know as investigators try to determine whether a culture of misconduct took root in the storied agency.

    • Justice honors five for efforts to rescue missing children

      By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
      Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole paid tribute Wednesday to five persons during a National Missing Children's Day ceremony at the Justice Department, presenting awards to a special agent, a detective, a 30-year veteran of the Postal Service, a prosecutor and a fifth-grader for their efforts in recovering and rescuing missing children.

    • Inside the Beltway: Catholics outraged by ignorance from network news

      By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
      In the wake of a damning Media Research Center report that broadcast news networks afforded a mere 19 seconds of coverage to historic Catholic lawsuits challenging the White House on certain mandates in the health care bill, religious and pro-life leaders have stepped forward to express "outrage" at ABC, CBS and NBC.

      • Senate panel hears of wider Secret Service misbehavior

        By Alicia A. Caldwell and Laurie Kellman - Associated Press
        The lawmaker leading an inquiry into the Secret Service prostitution scandal reported dozens of "troubling" episodes of past misbehavior Wednesday and appealed to insiders to come forward with what they know as investigators try to determine whether a culture of misconduct took root in the storied agency.

      • Woman on diverted US Airways jet claimed to have implanted device

        By Associated Press
        Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant that mentioned she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

      • Hollywood offered access to SEAL

        By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
        Obama administration officials offered Hollywood filmmakers access to a member of the top secret Navy SEALs team that killed Osama bin Laden last year, newly released documents show.

      • Administration widens scope of 'Race to the Top'

        By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
        The Obama administration is taking its signature "Race to the Top" education grant competition to the micro level.

      • Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election

        By Associated Press
        Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time.

      • Embassy: Crocker to leave as ambassador to Afghanistan

        By Associated Press
        Veteran U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker will leave his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer, an embassy spokesman said Tuesday.

      • Sequesters, tax increases would cause double-dip recession

        By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
        The automatic spending cuts and tax increases slated to take effect at the end of this year would cut the federal deficit dramatically, but would send the country back into a short recession, according to the latest analysis from Congress's official scorekeepers.

      • HURT: The news media's un-American failures

        By Charles Hurt
        When the national media isn't consumed with "exposes" revealing that Mitt Romney was once a teenager and attended high school with other teenagers, they are busy ignoring persistent evidence causing alarming numbers of Americans to believe President Obama was not born in the U.S.

      • Senate panel votes to cut aid for Egypt and Pakistan

        By Donna Cassata - Associated Press
        In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel approved Tuesday a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes President Obama's request for assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

      • Inside Politics: Panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt

        By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
        A Senate panel has approved a foreign aid budget for next year that cuts U.S. assistance to Pakistan and Egypt.

      • Opponents claim Keystone would boost gas prices

        By Tim Devaney and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
        TransCanada's proposed $7.6 billion Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project that would transport Canadian oil to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast, has been pitched as a way to lower domestic gas prices. But a coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday produced a new study claiming the pipeline would have the opposite effect.

      • Inside the Beltway: Lawsuit, what lawsuit?

        By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
        Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell has seen a lot of media abuse in his time as the master monitor of the liberal press. Now, he's seen the very worst: The broadcast networks "all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom," the analyst says, citing CBS, ABC and NBC for skimming over news that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Obama administration.

      • Congress staring over edge of 'fiscal cliff'

        By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
        For Congress, the outlines of the pending fiscal crisis are clear: Don't do a thing, and watch the economy slip into a double-dip recession early next year. Or cancel the looming tax increases and spending cuts, watch the deficit rise, and push the government ever closer to a European-style debt crisis.

      • Visa changes aimed at skilled workers

        By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
        Most Americans are deeply skeptical of expanding immigration, especially in the middle of an economic slump — but a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday that high-skilled immigrants could provide just the kind of spark the economy needs to help pull it out of a prolonged rut.

      • Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks mount

        By Steve Peoples - Associated Press
        The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.

        • GOP race in Texas has echoes of Indiana

          By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
          The next skirmish in the internal war over the direction of the Republican Party plays out in Texas next week, when primary voters choose a Senate candidate as tea party insurgent Ted Cruz is mounting an aggressive challenge to the establishment-backed candidate, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

        • Groups air ads hitting Obama, Romney

          By Beth Fouhy - Associated Press
          An independent group seeking to oust President Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Mr. Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008.

        • White House: Sanctions will move forward despite progress in talks with Iran

          By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
          The White House said it would not immediately lift sanctions on Iran as a result of progress in talks to allow an investigation into Tehran's nuclear program.

        • Romney outpaces Obama in Ky., Ark. primaries

          By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
          President Obama won 58 percent of the vote in Kentucky's Democratic primary on Tuesday but lost 42 percent of the vote to "uncommitted" — another worrisome sign for him as he seeks re-election.

        • Obama: I couldn't sleep in my own Chicago bed

          By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
          President Obama praised Chicago police Monday for their handling of several days worth of clashes with anti-government protesters during the city's NATO summit, and asked for sympathy from frustrated Chicagoans because he wasn't able to sleep in his own bed.

        • Obama: Bain Capital is the issue in 2012

          By Dave Boyer and Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
          Seizing on his campaign's new line of attack against Mitt Romney's record as a venture capitalist, President Obama said Monday that private equity firms sometimes harm communities.

        • Inside the Beltway: A vial matter

          By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
          "If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase. ... Any individual, including a President of the United States, should feel confident that once they enter into the care of a medical system their privacy and rights are held inviolable." So says John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, regarding the public auction of a glass vial that contained Ronald Reagan's blood.

        • Inside Politics: Romney to raise about $10M in N.Y., Conn.

          By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
          Mitt Romney is set to raise about $10 million during a fundraising swing through New York and Connecticut.

        • 2,000 exonerated in 23 years

          By Pete Yost - Associated Press
          More than 2,000 people who had been convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities.

        • NATO to turn over security to Afghans in year

          By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
          NATO leaders reached an agreement Monday to turn over control of Afghanistan's security to its own troops by the middle of 2013, endorsing a plan backed by the Obama administration to phase out the U.S. lead in the unpopular war.

        • More images, videos reveal GSA fun at 2010 Vegas conference

          By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
          Except for the cocktails, beer and wine, many of the scenes from the now infamous 2010 General Services Administration conference gave the appearance of a fun summer camp.

        • Archdioceses, Catholic schools sue over Obama contraception plan

          By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
          The archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis and the University of Notre Dame filed lawsuits over President Obama's contraception mandate Monday, along with dozens of other Catholic dioceses, schools and charities in a major legal challenge to a key part of Mr. Obama's health care overhaul law.

        • De Borchgrave takes leave from column

          By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
          Arnaud de Borchgrave said Monday night he will take a three-month leave from writing his weekly opinion column for The Washington Times to finish his memoirs.

        • NATO finalizes Afghan withdrawal plans

          By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
          NATO leaders reached an agreement Monday to turn over control of Afghanistan's security to its own troops by the middle of 2013, endorsing a plan backed by the Obama administration to phase out the U.S. lead in the unpopular war.

        • GOP senators slam federal judges' plan for retreat at Maui resort

          By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
          Two senior Republican senators want to know why a group of federal judges and court employees plan to hold a convention this summer at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa, an oceanfront hotel where the website invites prospective guests to "frolic," "pamper" and "play."


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