GOP to Block Obama Pick Cordray, Leaving Consumer Watchdog CFPB Toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the next front in partisan warfare. Read more on US News & World Report
Crab & Clam Bake may see smaller crowd CRISFIELD — Organizers of Wednesday’s J. Millard Tawes Crab & Clam Bake are expecting a crowd to show up at the 35th annual event, which traditionally mixes Crisfield seafood and state politics, but it may not be as big as in previous years. Read more on The [...]
Bitter political feud among Quartzsite’s residents continues Raucous scenes are becoming commonplace. Read more on The Arizona Republic
Maryland Politics: Republican delegate to direct state GOP Maryland Republican Party Chairman Alex Mooney announced today that he has tapped freshman Del. Justin Ready to serve as the organization’s interim executive director. Read more on Baltimore Sun
Outsider PACs influenced Tampa election It’s what a lot of people hate about politics: Negative ads created by groups that sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to keep the public from knowing who they are. The I-Team found out more about two of them. Read more on ABC Action News Tampa Bay
Obama raises more than $86M for campaign, party Off to a huge early lead in the money race, President Barack Obama hauled in $86 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party in the past three months. It’s better than he did in his victorious first presidential campaign, despite the sluggish economy and constant [...]
A spoonful of tax cuts helps carbon medicine go down It seems Julia Gillard is positioning herself as the Mary Poppins of politics. In her latest carbon tax reform package, she has given two spoons of sugar to the majority of the electorate to boost her standing in the polls, and dropped the medicine on [...]
Academia and ‘politics of fear’ Claims by climate-change deniers that CO2 is harmless are nonsense (Letters, July 6) Read more on Hamilton Spectator
Obama, Republicans, seek to break debt impasse US President Barack Obama, seen here on July 7, will meet with his top Republican foes in a high-stakes effort to forge a crucial budget deal before an early-August deadline with little sign of any consensus…. Read more on AFP Journal Internet Finance News (EU) via Yahoo! UK [...]
N.E. Editorial Rdp. The Providence (R.I.) Journal, July 7, 2011: Now that the U.S. and some of its NATO allies have committed themselves to ousting Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and that mission is achievable, we must press ahead and help finish the job. Read more on Boston Globe
