Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

Obama keeps up push to end gas, oil tax breaks (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2011 file photo, gas prices above five dollars a gallon are seen on a sign at a gas station in Washington. Americans are down in the dumps. Even though the economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, unemployment remains near 9 percent. Gasoline prices have shot up to about $4 a gallon (almost a dollar a liter). That's about a third more than than just six months ago. It's pinching already tight household budgets. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - President Barack Obama says oil companies are profiting from rising pump prices and he wants Congress to end $4 billion in annual tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.

Palin raises profile; 2012 plans unclear (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. It’s been a sliding spring for Sarah Palin. She's kept an uncharacteristically low profile. Her support among Republicans has shrunk. And there's no evidence that she's anywhere close to announcing whether she will run for president. But it's clear she still wants to be part of the conversation (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner, File)AP - Sarah Palin's support among Republicans has shrunk and there's no evidence she's close to saying whether she will run for president in 2012.

NH GOP gets back-to-back look at 2012 hopefuls (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Possible 2012 presidential hopeful, U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks during a We the People candidates forum, Saturday, April 30, 2011 in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - With back-to-back events featuring multiple presidential hopefuls, it's been something of an instant-replay kind of weekend for New Hampshire Republicans.

Indiana GOP releases video lauding Daniels’ record (Daily Caller)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:08 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Following the close of the Indiana legislative session just before midnight on Friday, the Indiana Republican Party released a video lauding Gov. Mitch Daniels' record this session and overall. The video, entitled "Mitch Daniels: Change That's Still Working!" almost has the feel of a campaign ad for the potential Republican presidential candidate.

Indiana governor vows to block federal funds for Planned Parenthood (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:38 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Indiana will become the first state to block funding for Planned Parenthood following an announcement made late Friday by Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) that he will sign a bill to deny the group about $2 million in federal dollars.

Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:52 PM PDT

President Barack Obama takes the stage at the Miami Dade College North and West Campus graduation, Friday, April 29, 2011, at the James L. Knight International Center in Miami. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Stepping up his demand to change the nation's immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he'll keep working to help students not legally in the U.S. to become American citizens.

Stem cell research: Court gives Obama a victory, but policy still on trial (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:07 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A divided federal appeals court handed the Obama administration a significant victory on Friday when it reversed a judge’s ruling that sought to block government funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

NRA chief wants Holder resignation (Politico)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 11:09 AM PDT

Politico - He points to operation occuring on his watch.

Obama urges end to Big Oil subsidies (Politico)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:08 AM PDT

Politico - "These tax giveaways aren’t right,” Obama says. “They aren’t smart. And we need to end them.”

Political perils abound in online rumor hothouse (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 07:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 1988, file photo Democratic presidential candidate, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, acknowledges the auditorium as Republican presidential candidate, Vice President George Bush, looks on after their final debate in Los Angeles, Calif. Dukakis says that while the rapid spread of negative information online poses new challenges for candidates, every generation of politicians has to learn the necessity of effectively countering attacks. 'The worst mistake of my political career, and it was a colossal failure, was that I was not going to respond to the Bush attack campaign,' he says. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)AP - How quaint: Candidate Bill Clinton's big weapon against political attacks in 1992 was an impressive new technology called the blast fax.

Tax, spending divisions laid bare in public forums (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 06:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2011, file photo freshman Rep. Frank Guinta, R-N.H., seen with some family members, participates in a ceremonial House swearing-in ceremony with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The low-key former mayor of Manchester took criticism at a town hall forum in April 2011 for not raising taxes on the wealthy. A bipartisan plan might emerge from a group of six senators, three from each party, working on the issue, he said, and promised to hold a 'manufacturers' summit' and 'innovators' conference' in his district, and to 'look beyond party labels' for solutions to the nation's problems. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Peter Cass could stand it no longer as he listened to the Republican congressman defend a plan to cut taxes and Medicare simultaneously.

Mugabe arrives in Rome for papal beatification (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 05:03 AM PDT

AP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome, sidestepping a European Union travel ban because he is headed for Pope John Paul II's beatification, being held Sunday in Vatican City.

Obama ramps up recovery help for tornado-hit South (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 12:12 PM PDT

Workers work on the roof of a damaged historic building with a mural in Cullman, Alabama, April 30, 2011. REUTERS/Tami ChappellReuters - The government on Saturday ramped up efforts to help thousands of homeless victims of the country's second deadliest tornado outbreak on record that killed at least 350 people.

Why Israel and Obama should welcome Hamas-Fatah reconciliation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:40 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Arab Spring for freedom that first bloomed in Tunisia last December just keeps unfolding. And each new blossom in the Middle East and North Africa raises this difficult question:

NH forum: Romney wants to ‘hang’ Obama with misery index, Bachmann wants omnibus Obama repeal (Daily Caller)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:49 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Five potential Republican presidential candidates gathered at a New Hampshire forum hosted by Americans for Prosperity on Friday night.

Only Huntsman can come from China (Daily Caller)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Jon Huntsman officially ends his tenure as U.S. Ambassador to China Saturday, and will switch gears into what many predict to be a presidential campaign.

Polls on Tea Party: Nearly 50 Percent Have Unfavorable Opinion of Movement (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 12:42 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - A recent poll released by USA Today/Gallup indicates that the Tea Party may be gradually losing traction among Americans. It corroborates a poll conducted by CNN/Opinion Research Corporation conducted in March.

Activist sues Sarah Palin for $100K over traffic (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. It’s been a sliding spring for Sarah Palin. She's kept an uncharacteristically low profile. Her support among Republicans has shrunk. And there's no evidence that she's anywhere close to announcing whether she will run for president. But it's clear she still wants to be part of the conversation (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner, File)AP - An activist is suing Sarah Palin for at least $100,000, claiming she undertook a campaign to "punish, embarrass, discredit and silence" him while she was Alaska's governor.
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