By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer updated 1 hour, 53 minutes ago WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday is sending legislation to Congress that would allow him to force lawmakers to vote on cutting wasteful programs from spending bills. The legislation would award Obama and his successors the ability to take two months or [...]

May 23, 2010 FOXNews.com   The United States is hunting for American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday. WASHINGTON — The United States is hunting for American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday. The radical cleric is calling for the killing of American [...]

May 24, 2010 – 6:00 AM | by: James Rosen Education Secretary Arne Duncan is asking lawmakers to put aside “politics and ideology” as they consider a request for $23 billion in “emergency” funding for public schools – a measure Republicans reject as a massive federal bailout for the teachers’ unions. The Obama administration is [...]

May 24, 2010 Associated Press   “The president has directed his military commanders to coordinate closely with their Republic of Korea counterparts to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression,” the White House said Monday. WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama “fully supports” the South Korean president and his response [...]

Yemeni Tribesmen Kidnap U.S. Couple Near Sanaa May 24, 2010 SANAA (Reuters) – Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped two U.S. tourists, a husband and wife, near the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday and were demanding the release of a jailed relative, Yemeni security officials said. The couple’s Yemeni driver and translator were also taken hostage, the [...]

By: Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst May 23, 2010 This month three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election — a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania. Their records and their curricula vitae are different. But they all have one thing [...]

May 23, 2010 Muddied Waters by Salena Zito WAYNE, PA. – The honest take-away from last Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky – including the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District – is that any bearing on November’s midterms is as clear as mud. We tend to over-interpret everything, but no big-picture conclusion [...]

May 23, 2010 Forked-Tongue-In-Chief at West Point by Kevin McCullough The most accurate definition of one who is “forked tongue” is not someone who directly disputes himself, but rather one who says something with such cloud that two completely different things could be intended or received, said vs. heard, meant while misleading. Liberals have generally [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Sunday, May 23, 2010 “I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.” – H.L. Mencken Oh, what a title bout it’s been in these parts. The feinting and shifting, the left jabs and right uppercuts, with both the champ and her major challenger claiming [...]

By Roy Exum (Archive) · Sunday, May 23, 2010 Almost every day I go to my little office and write a story like this one. Where I go to “hole up” is a small, quiet place in a little shopping center and I can read and write with no interruption or bother. It is just [...]