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By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON — Onward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year’s Day deal averting the “fiscal cliff” lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Washington over taxes, spending and debt in the next few months. President Barack Obama’s victory on taxes this week was the second, grudging round of piecemeal successes in as many Read More …
By Michael Scherer TIME Twenty-seven years after driving from New York City to Chicago in a $2,000 Honda Civic for a job that probably wouldn’t amount to much, Barack Obama, in better shape but with grayer hair, stood in the presidential suite on the top floor of the Fairmont Millennium Park hotel as flat screens announced his re-election as President of the United States. The Read More …
By Jessica Roy Current.com On Monday, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced she had picked Congressman Tim Scott to fill Jim DeMint’s Senate seat. On the surface, this seems like a good thing — Scott will be a desperately needed infusion of diversity in the Senate as its only black member. But the congressman isn’t exactly a progressive. In fact, he’s a conservative, a proud Read More …
By Ashley Killough CNN (CNN) – Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said Sunday the president will soon have legislation “to lead on” in the gun control debate, announcing she will introduce a bill next month in the Senate to place a ban on assault weapons. “We’ll be prepared to go, and I hope the nation will really help,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Read More …
By Brianna Keilar and Tom Cohen CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker John Boehner has offered to include higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans as part of a deficit-reduction deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, a source close to the talks confirmed to CNN on Saturday. The latest twist in the negotiations, first reported by Politico, indicates a possible breakthrough in the protracted efforts Read More …
By Perry Diaz President Barack Obama’s nomination and the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Judge Lorna Gail Schofield to the Federal Court is an important milestone in U.S. jurisprudence. As Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Schofield’s appointment is a testament to the Obama administration’s commitment to the Filipino-American community and to have a Judiciary that reflects the Read More …
The X-37B is designed to stay in space as long as nine months and to collect electronic signals of all kinds in a way that other countries can’t stop. The Air Force is not commenting on its mission. By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON The Air Force’s launch this week of its new super-secret robotic plane into orbit is an important Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Is the Republican Party in disarray? No. Is it dysfunctional? Probably, yes. Is it crumbling? Not yet. Yes, at the rate the bloodletting is going on, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is going through like what “Honest Abe” went through during his tumultuous presidency—a civil war. What was once the party that welcomed – nay, tolerated – people with Read More …
By Don Azarias Politicians, economists, analysts and investors have been talking about ‘fiscal cliff” even before and even more after the Nov. 6 presidential election. They have been dealing with it in almost the same breadth as the Y2K scare (remember this?) before year 2000 which, it turned out, was just a concoction of unscrupulous IT “experts” for financial gain. They were .hoping to cash Read More …
How the Pentagon is quietly transforming its overseas base empire and creating a dangerous new way of war. By David Vine Mother Jones This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void—something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact, severed Read More …