Issue a political hot potato By Sean Lengell The Washington Times 8:02 p.m., Sunday, February 27, 2011 Despite President Obama‘s promises to lower the deficit and rein in spending, there was a conspicuous omission from his 2012 budget blueprint that many say would go a long way toward easing the nation’s financial woes: Social Security [...]

By Marc Fisher and Liz Sly Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, February 28, 2011; 1:33 AM TUNIS – Tunisia, whose revolution convulsed the Arab world, ousted its second leader in less than two months Sunday, as the euphoria triggered by the uprising in January began to give way to the realization that achieving meaningful reforms [...]

By Bradley Blakeman Published February 28, 2011 FoxNews.com The landmark Supreme Court decision handed down in January 2010, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, proves it is time for serious, meaningful, lasting and reasonable campaign finance reform. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision held in favor of Citizens United and found that corporate funding [...]

By Rep. Michael Grimm Published February 27, 2011 FoxNews.com February 28, 2011, marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War. Has it really been twenty years? When I was 19 years old, I felt the urge to serve my country and left college after my freshman year to enlist in the United [...]

By Michael Goodwin Published February 27, 2011 New York Post The Boiling Over of the Liberal Mind is on full display these days, and it is not a pretty sight. Union protesters in Wisconsin compared Gov. Scott Walker to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other tyrants. A sign showed him in a Nazi salute [...]

Pro-democracy demonstrations across China organized online met with aggressive crackdown by government authorities Feb 27, 2011 By Celia Hatton (CBS News) For the second Sunday in a row, protesters in China gathered in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities to call for reform. They were met by police, as we hear from celia hatton. CBS News correspondent [...]

Police relent, allow protesters to camp overnight in Wisconsin Capitol as sit-in nears 2 weeks By DAVID A. LIEB and DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MADISON, Wis. February 28, 2011 (AP) Dozens of protesters camped overnight in the Wisconsin Capitol and vowed to be back in full force Monday after police backed away from threats to [...]

Frank Buckles, last US WWI vet, dies in W.Va. at age 110; lied about age to get in uniform By VICKI SMITH Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. February 28, 2011 (AP) He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the [...]

By the CNN Wire Staff February 27, 2011 Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi seemed increasingly cornered Sunday as security forces defected to the opposition in a town near the capital and the United Nations Security Council voted for tough restrictions on and possible war crimes charges against the Libyan regime. Former [...]

Regional war could spark “unprecedented climate change,” experts predict. Charles Q. Choi for National Geographic News Published February 22, 2011 Even a regional nuclear war could spark “unprecedented” global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models. Widespread famine and disease would likely follow, experts speculate. During the Cold War a [...]