Aug 2, 2011 – President Obama and leaders in Congress behaved like "spoiled children" in the debt-ceiling debate, the vast majority of Americans said in a new CNN poll released Tuesday. U.S. adults expressed a sour opinion toward all the players involved in reaching an agreement that includes two phases of spending cuts...

Aug 2, 2011 – SEOUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank bought 25 tonnes of gold over the past two months in its first purchase in more than a decade, saying the time was ripe to boost its gold holding, but markets barely moved on the news. A brittle global economic...

Aug 2, 2011 – One senior Senate aide tells Townhall, "nobody has any idea where [Stephen Hayes] got that from." …

Aug 2, 2011 – With a 12-paragraph statement that came in longer than Newt Gingrich's, Rep. Ron Paul registers his (unsurprising) disapproval of the debt-ceiling deal, a quarter of which is below: "While it is good to see serious debate about our debt crisis, I cannot support the reported deal on raising the nation’s...

Aug 2, 2011 – The founding members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus said Sunday that they won’t seek to delay Senate action on a compromise debt-ceiling plan being negotiated by congressional leaders and the White House ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican freshman from Kentucky who has previously...

Aug 2, 2011 – The defining element of Sunday night’s debt-limit deal is not what happens now, but what it sets up for the next five months: an all-out war between tax increasers and entitlement cutters, fought on the battlefield of a 12-member congressional “supercommittee.” With both wings of the political spectrum opposed, President...

Aug 2, 2011 – Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect on Sept. 1. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law, which would, among other...

Aug 2, 2011 – LAKE JACKSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign today announced the national “Veterans for Ron Paul” coalition to energize supporters of Dr. Paul who were members of the U.S. armed forces. The coalition aims to recruit men and women who served in the armed services and who...

Aug 2, 2011 – Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) would come close to beating President Obama in his home state, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Santorum, a longshot Republican presidential candidate, trails Obama among registered voters by a margin well within the margin of error in a new Quinnipiac...

Aug 2, 2011 – Vice President Biden found himself under fire Tuesday from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who condemned alleged comments the vice president made attacking the Tea Party. Bachmann, a GOP presidential candidate, and Palin, a potential candidate, each reacted with outrage at a...

Aug 2, 2011 – We print the results of the Straw Poll in the latest issue of Townhall Magazine. … If you want to stay up to date on the 2012 presidential election then you need Townhall Magazine!…

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Aug 1, 2011 – Boehner says he's "got a job to do" and those running for president have "their own aspirations." Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday brushed off opposition by his party's presidential candidates to a debt-ceiling deal set for a key vote later on Monday in the House.

Aug 1, 2011 – Congress has started debating the debt limit compromise negotiated by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders. The GOP-run House began considering the bill less than a day after the White House and top lawmakers reached agreement on a dispute that had locked them in deadlock for months. Read more:

Aug 1, 2011 – As markets await a final vote on the debt ceiling deal reached by Democrats, with President Obama as their chief negotiator, and Republicans huddled behind House Speaker John Boehner, experts on both sides of the ideological coin have come out against the new plan. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, representing...

Aug 1, 2011 – Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is “poised to enter” the presidential race and is holding a high-level strategy session with a small group of top supporters this week, according to an e-mail sent by his 2010 gubernatorial campaign co-chairman. In an e-mail invitation obtained by The Fix, former...

Aug 1, 2011 – The fiscally conservative Club for Growth "strongly opposes" the compromise President Obama worked out with Republican and Democratic leaders and will include the vote in its "key vote" Congressional scorecard, the group announced Monday. "The problems with this proposal are many, but fiscal conservatives should have obvious concerns for the...

Aug 1, 2011 – Several of the Republican 2012 presidential contenders have come out against President Obama's deal with Republicans to raise the nation's debt limit, striking a tone that pre-emptively forgives Republicans for going along with the deal while placing the blame squarely on the president's shoulders. The candidates predictably have tacked about...

Aug 1, 2011 – The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent. Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront...

Aug 1, 2011 – Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney is coming out against the debt ceiling deal reached late Sunday by the White House and Congressional leaders. In a statement Monday, the former Massachusetts governor said he opposes the framework because it calls for a special Congressional committee that...

Aug 1, 2011 – Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he's unsure about voting for the newly agreed-upon $2.4 trillion debt-limit increase deal due to the amount of "permanent structural spending" reforms. "You know, I haven't seen the legislation yet," Lee said Sunday on CNN. "I haven't had an opportunity to read it yet. Based...

Aug 1, 2011 – There are many reasons President Obama wanted to wrap up a debt deal this weekend: the looming Aug. 2 default deadline and the endless media coverage of Washington’s political meltdown, to name a couple. But he also wanted to get back to some other critical business: fundraising for...

Aug 1, 2011 – MEXICO CITY (The Blaze/AP) — A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the U.S. border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday. According to The El Paso Times, Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez is...

Aug 1, 2011 – For immigrants seeking asylum, winning the right to stay in the United States is often a game of chance that comes down to one thing: which judge hears their tale. A report out this month shows two New York immigration judges with strikingly different records on granting safe haven -...