Jun 8, 2011 – Morales and Chris Kacher Stock Tip: Don't Take Stock Tips John Ransom Obama's Top Econ Advisor Out Click the Townhall…

Jun 8, 2011 – When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, much will look familiar to the last time he was accorded this honor, 15 years ago, during his first term as prime minister. Then, Netanyahu felt more at home in a Republican-led Congress (the GOP held both houses...

Jun 7, 2011 – BALTIMORE-David Simon, the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series, “The Wire” has addressed Eric Holder’s request for a new season of “The Wire.” At a recent conference on the impacts of drugs and families, with “The Wire” stars Wendell Pierce and Sonja Sohn, Holder begged for a new season...

Jun 7, 2011 – WEST DES MOINES — Presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn) says he wants to be “known as the strongest, most-principled, authentic conservative” candidate in the 2012 elections, and emphasized his activism on social and cultural issues, specifically abortion, on Tuesday. “It’s one thing to go in...

Jun 7, 2011 – U.S. stocks erased gains as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the economic recovery has been “uneven” and “frustratingly slow,” while giving no indication the central bank plans a new round of stimulus. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was little changed at 1,285.85 at 3:57 p.m. in...

Jun 7, 2011 – Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met rising resistance nationwide. Massachusetts is the third state to pull out of...

Jun 7, 2011 – AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry added immigration legislation to the special session's agenda on Tuesday, including a measure that would remove local law enforcement agencies' ability to make immigration violations a lower priority. Other items he added include how local police use the federal Secure Communities program to check...

Jun 7, 2011 – Iraq is just fine with $115 a barrel oil, despite the desire of its U.S. ally for less pain at the pump. "In my opinion the current level is not too high," Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Karim Elaibi said of the price of crude, Reuters reported Tuesday as OPEC ministers prepared...

Jun 7, 2011 – TORONTO, ONTARIO — Financial Executives International Canada (FEI Canada) commends the federal government for confirming its commitment to tax reduction, tax system simplification and achieving budgetary equilibrium by 2014. FEI Canada, a national membership association of 2,000 financial executives from all industries and sectors, supports the federal initiative to...

Jun 7, 2011 – Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposed significant reductions in corporate and individual tax rates on Tuesday while calling for deep spending cuts that could see the federal government abandon its role delivering the mail or backstopping home loans. In addition to cutting tax rates, Mr. Pawlenty called for eliminating taxes...

Jun 7, 2011 – Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama's federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds. The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the number rises to 50 percent...

Jun 7, 2011 – (Newser) – Homeowners who took out a second mortgage are twice as likely as those who didn’t to be underwater on their mortgages, with a whopping 38% owing more than their homes are worth, according to a CoreLogic report released today. They were also much deeper in the hole, with...

Jun 7, 2011 – Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide. Over the past 60 years, it has accelerated steadily as new technologies and management expertise have reduced transportation and transaction costs and as tariffs and other man-made barriers to international trade have been lowered. The impact has been stunning. More and...

Jun 7, 2011 – House Speaker John Boehner hasn’t said much about Rep. Anthony Weiner’s unfolding sex scandal, and he isn’t likely to anytime soon. While the Ohio Republican is responsible for protecting the House as an institution, he’s also his party’s leader — and Republicans have no intention of breaking Weiner’s fall.

Jun 7, 2011 – se Majority Leader Eric Cantor called on embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign a day after the New York Democrat admitted to having sexually charged online relationships with six women, none of whom are his wife. “I don’t condone his activity. And I think he should resign,” Cantor, a...

Jun 7, 2011 – An announcement bump for Mitt Romney and a bus-tour boost for Sarah Palin put the pair atop the field for the Republican presidential nomination. But while their primary standings are similar, their broader prospects for election look vastly different. Romney appears formidable: In a general-election trial heat in...

Jun 7, 2011 – As President Barack Obama prepares to make a major decision about the pace of U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, congressional opposition to the decade-long war appears to be hardening. But it’s unclear whether critics of the president’s Afghanistan policy can force him to accelerate the pullout, which he has promised...

Jun 7, 2011 – The wave of revolutions sweeping the Middle East bears a striking resemblance to previous political earthquakes. As in Europe in 1848, rising food prices and high unemployment have fueled popular protests from Morocco to Oman. As in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989, frustration with closed, corrupt, and...

Jun 7, 2011 – The fall of the Soviet Union presented a major strategic challenge to the United States. Accustomed to preparing for the singular problem posed by the Soviet Union, the United States suddenly had to grapple with asymmetrical, transnational, and decentralized threats. Osama bin Laden’s death poses a similar test for Washington....

Jun 7, 2011 – California's average pump price has fallen below the driver-irritating $4-a-gallon mark for the first time since March 21, the Energy Department said. The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline in California was $3.994 on Monday, down 6.2 cents from a week earlier, according to the Energy Department's weekly...

Jun 7, 2011 – WASHINGTON — It's Ben Bernanke's turn to assess how much the economy has weakened. Investors have pushed stock prices lower for four straight days in response to data showing weaker hiring in May, falling home prices and a drop in manufacturing. On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve chairman will offer his...

Jun 7, 2011 – June 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama urged European leaders to resolve the continent’s debt crisis quickly to avoid endangering the global economy. Obama said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a White House meeting, agreed that the financial situation in Europe “cannot be allowed to put the global...

Jun 7, 2011 – (Newser) – Not everyone is castigating Anthony Weiner: Sex columnist (and America's ethicist?) Dan Savage thinks Weiner is right not to resign over this mess. What's the great sin here? "Weiner was horny and went online," blogs Savage at the Stranger. "He created his own porn, his own interactive porn,...

Jun 7, 2011 – (Newser) – Prosecutors possess evidence from John Edwards' own emails that help prove a key part of the case against him and make his decision to opt for a trial instead of a plea bargain look even riskier, sources tell AP. In the emails, Edwards and his former speechwriter, Wendy...

Jun 7, 2011 – (Newser) – Tim Pawlenty delivered a combative speech today in which he called for massive changes in the tax code and accused Barack Obama of being a “champion practitioner of class warfare.” Pawlenty proposed a system with just two tax brackets, taxing the first $50,000 of income ($100,000 for married...