Nov 30, 4:59 AM (ET) By ALAN FRAM and JENNIFER AGIESTA WASHINGTON (AP) – To ease surging budget deficits, Americans prefer cutting federal services to raising taxes by nearly 2-1 in a new poll. Yet there is little consensus on specific, meaningful steps – and a wariness about touching two gargantuan programs, Social Security and [...]

By Russell Berman – 11/29/10 12:55 PM ET The second-ranking House Democrat said Monday that President Obama’s move to freeze the pay of civilian federal employees should also be extended to military personnel. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said including the military would have increased savings and add “an element of fairness.” He made the [...]

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Tom Raum, Associated Press – Mon Nov 29, 9:47 pm ET WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze of the salaries of some 2 million federal workers, trying to seize the deficit-cutting initiative from Republicans with a sudden, dramatic stroke. Though signaling White House concern over [...]

Nov 29, 2010 The White House on Monday said WikiLeaks and others behind the release of a flood of confidential diplomatic memos were “criminals” and that President Barack Obama was decidedly “not pleased.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the people who released of some 250,000 classified State Department memos were “criminals, first and foremost” who [...]

by Sarah Palin on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 12:17pm We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about [...]

Nov 29 11:51 AM US/Eastern By PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law in the leaks of classified government documents by online whistleblower WikiLeaks, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday. “This is not saber-rattling,” said the attorney general, who declared that the Obama [...]

Nov 29, 2010 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police were investigating whether any Australian law was broken by the latest leaking of confidential documents by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks, the attorney-general said Monday. Robert McClelland said he was not aware of a request from the United States to cancel WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s Australian passport. A range [...]

Wikileaks Chief Promises to Reveal Many More Government Secrets. By JIM SCIUTTO, RUSSELL GOLDMAN and LEE FERRAN Nov. 29, 2010 The chief Wikileaker who the U.S. promised today to prosecute said his Internet site was just beginning to unload its diplomatic secrets and said the documents will skewer “lying, corrupt and murderous leadership from Bahrain [...]

By Ellen Nakashima and Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, November 30, 2010; 12:13 AM Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group’s release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. [...]

The President isn’t exactly a socialist. So what’s driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots. Dinesh D’Souza, 09.09.10, Forbes Magazine dated September 27, 2010 Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer [...]