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Sep 23, 2011 – Ann Coulter, you better sit down. Earlier this evening, reports surfaced that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is reneging on his previous insistence that he would not run for the presidency in 2012. Sources such as Newsmax (and Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard) claimed Christie had informed major Republican donors that he...

Sep 23, 2011 – Orlando (CNN) - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman made a pitch for big tent Republicanism in a convention hall packed with hardcore Florida conservatives on Friday. And the crowd applauded. Politely, at least. "We must appeal to the tea party and to conservative Republicans, but we must also bring into the tent...

Sep 23, 2011 – Orlando (CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry moved to put an underwhelming debate performance behind him during an address to a convention of Florida Republicans on Friday. "As conservatives, we know that values and visions matter," Perry told nearly 2,000 Republican activists at the Florida Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando....

Sep 23, 2011 – The House on Friday passed the first in a planned series of Republican bills to effectively block the Environmental Protection Agency from reining in toxic pollution under the Clean Air Act. The measure, which passed 233-180, largely along party lines, would delay the EPA from moving forward on a...

Sep 23, 2011 – After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech at UC Irvine last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States. There was crying as the verdict...

Sep 23, 2011 – After more than four years of negotiating for information about the disappearance of U.S. citizen and former FBI agent Robert Levinson during a business trip on Iran's southern coast, U.S. officials are hopeful this week's release of two American hikers will now shine a spotlight on the cold case.

Sep 23, 2011 – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said President Obama "inhabits a different planet" when it comes to the understanding of job creation and the economy. "I do believe the president, his life has been so far removed from the world in which jobs and wealth and prosperity are made that he...

Sep 23, 2011 – UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of failed negotiations in the hope this dramatic move on the world stage would reenergize their quest for an independent homeland. Palestinian...

Sep 23, 2011 – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who disappointed many of his fellow Republicans when he decided against joining the field for the 2012 presidential nomination, said Friday that he would welcome former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) entering the race. "My attitude all along has been the more the merrier," Daniels...

Sep 23, 2011 – The Senate on Friday rejected the GOP-led House's bill to avert a government shutdown, intensifying a partisan standoff that many in Congress hoped to avoid. The vote was 59-36. Democrats in the Senate, who are in the majority, oppose Republican efforts to roll back "green" energy programs to pay...

Sep 23, 2011 – The adult in the room has just thrown an arched-back, high-decibel, progressive tantrum. In July, President Obama contemplated a deficit-reduction deal involving $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. His current proposal, by the reckoning of Keith Hennessey of the Hoover Institution, includes about...

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Sep 22, 2011 – It’s all fun and games until someone serves $16 muffins. The Obama administration is ordering a government-wide review of conference expenses after colleague Jerry Markon wrote his way on to the front page of The Washington Post with news of the Justice Department’s extravagant spending habits at 10 law...

Sep 22, 2011 – An obscure change to Illinois state law 20 years ago has given 23 retired Chicago union officials almost $56 million in city pensions. The labor leaders are getting pensions based on their union salaries rather than their significantly lower city salaries, a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV investigation uncovered. "The revelation that there...

Sep 22, 2011 – Drones can clearly track down terrorists. But they can apparently boost an economy, too. The U.S. military’s deployment of MQ-9 Reaper drones to the Seychelles, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, generated $3.1 million in revenue for local businesses during their first four months of operations, according...

Sep 22, 2011 – UNITED NATIONS — U.S. diplomats walked out of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a fiercely anti-American speech, attacking the U.S. as an “arrogant power” ruled by greed. More than a dozen diplomats from other countries, including France, left the chamber soon after. Ahmadinejad also...

Sep 22, 2011 – A long-lost, highly valuable Moon rock brought back from the Apollo 17 mission has turned up in the files of Bill Clinton. The rock was one of 50 presented to each state, and was given to Arkansas while the ex-president was governor. The rock, worth millions of dollars, had...

Sep 22, 2011 – With no solution in sight for Europe and new fears of a global recession, investors dumped stocks and commodities and ran to the safety of U.S. Treasurys. Treasury yields span#ExplainsLink a, span#ExplainsLink a img, span#ExplainsLink a:visited img, span#ExplainsLink a:visited {border:none;} , as a result, slipped to historic...

Sep 22, 2011 – eBay’s former chief executive Meg Whitman will be named CEO of troubled tech giant Hewlett-Packard after the markets close Thursday, according to a report. Whitman, if appointed, would replace H-P’s current chief executive Leo Apotheker. Rumors swirled Wednesday that Apotheker would be replaced at the helm of the...

Sep 22, 2011 – Hey, remember yesterday, when President Obama claimed we don't allow human rights violators on our shores? Apparently we do, but only if they're addressing the United Nations. Doesn't mean we have to listen, though. Per Reuters and this story from the Wall Street Journal, the United States' delegation...