Planners fear showing sequestration is doable By Rowan Scarborough The Washington Times Sunday, May 20, 2012 For Pentagon planners, automatic spending cuts slated to begin in January have become the $600 billion contingency they can’t plan for. Military planners are under strict orders not to devise scenarios for meeting the demands of “sequestration,” as the [...]

May 21, 2012 7:50 AM (AP) CHICAGO – NATO says that its European missile shield is up and running with a basic capability to shoot down incoming missiles.  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday the declaration of “interim capability” at the alliance’s summit in Chicago is a first step toward a goal of [...]

By ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb) and DEAN SCHABNER May 20, 2012 Protesters clad in black clashed with police at the end of what had been a peaceful march and rally by thousands of demonstrators, led by disenchanted veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars protesting the opening of the two-day NATO summit in Chicago today. The [...]

His case caused a diplomatic standoff and further complicated U.S.-China relations. By Lisa Marscaro, Barbara Demick and Andrew Tangel, Washington Bureau May 19, 2012, 10:13 p.m. NEW YORK — After years of detention and a bold escape to the U.S. Embassyin Beijing, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States, a bittersweet moment [...]

Newark mayor praises the record of Bain Capital on Meet the Press BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff – May 20, 2012 Newark Mayor Cory Booker credited Bain Capital with growing businesses and said attacks on private equity must stop, during “Meet the Press” Sunday. As far as that stuff, I have to say from a [...]

By CAMPBELL BROWN Published: May 19, 2012 WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, [...]

May 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER Florida senator Marco Rubio slammed President Barack Obama in a South Carolina speech delivered last night to a large gathering of Republicans.  “For all the policy disagreements that we may have with the president, it is hard to understate how much he inspired people across this country four [...]

May 16, 2012 – By J. Christian Adams I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida. How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long?  Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the [...]

May 19, 2012 – Daniel Doherty In an exciting turn of events, on Saturday night Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) received the endorsement from the liberal Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin. No governor in recent memory has been so controversial. No governor in America is so polarizing. Everyone has an opinion about Gov. Scott [...]

May 19, 2012 – Daniel Doherty This weekend students across the country will attend commencement ceremonies to celebrate an important milestone in their lives: graduating college. But after three and a half years of slump and uncertainty, the Class of 2012 faces a competitive job market and a still-recovering economy. With this in mind, Congressman [...]