Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP)
• Vote this week on California budget's cuts (Reuters)
• First lady celebrates women in US and around world (AP)
• Senate passes bill to overhaul patent system (AP)
• Maybe if Walker Had Used Bounty Hunters to Get the Wisconsin 14? (ContributorNetwork)
• 'Sting' boosts efforts to ax NPR funds (Politico)
• Obama to GOP: Don't cut education spending (AP)
• US Senate to try to break spending cut logjam (AFP)
• Senate sets votes on competing spending bills (Reuters)
• Wis. governor's budget goes far beyond just unions (AP)
• Main provisions of the Senate-passed patent bill (AP)
• Senate approves patent reform to end backlog (Reuters)
• Republicans push for tougher Guantanamo limits (AP)
• Hornet's nest ahead? Congress examines Islam in US (AP)
• What happens if Congress doesn't rein in national debt? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama wants education spared in budget-cut fight (Reuters)
• NPR executive calls tea party 'seriously racist,' most Americans 'uneducated' (The Christian Science Monitor)
• George Will wrong about GOP's presidential field, House whip says (video) (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Out of spotlight, GOP hopefuls prepping for 2012 (AP)
• Sarah Palin scheduled to share ‘testimony of faith’ at Liberty University (Daily Caller)

Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:42 PM PST AP - Voters went to the polls Tuesday with a chance to elect a group of reformers in a blue-collar Southern California community that became the face of municipal corruption in the country when officials were accused of paying themselves six-figure salaries while the city was going broke.

Vote this week on California budget's cuts (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:36 PM PST Reuters - California's Senate will vote on Thursday on spending cuts in Governor Jerry Brown's state budget plan, a spokesman for the chamber's top lawmaker said on Tuesday.

First lady celebrates women in US and around world (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:59 PM PST AP - Michelle Obama says that while women are breaking barriers and excelling in careers their mothers and grandmothers believed were off-limits, more progress is needed to achieve true equality.

Senate passes bill to overhaul patent system (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:45 PM PST AP - The nation's outmoded patent system, which has forced innovators and inventors to wait years and outlast challenges and lawsuits before getting recognition for their products, would be overhauled under a measure passed Tuesday by the Senate.

Maybe if Walker Had Used Bounty Hunters to Get the Wisconsin 14? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:45 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sometimes one has to wonder what our elected officials are thinking when they do something that appears to have been a lapse in judgment. The Wisconsin budget bill battle and Gov. Scott Walker's actions make up a case in point.

'Sting' boosts efforts to ax NPR funds (Politico) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:39 PM PST Politico - Within hours after a video emerged showing NPR’s fundraising chief disparaging tea partiers as “racist” and saying the broadcaster would be better off without federal funding, Republicans in Congress seeking to de-fund NPR said they’d be only too happy to oblige.

Obama to GOP: Don't cut education spending (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:38 PM PST AP - Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money for education as irresponsible and harmful to the long-term health of the nation's economy.

US Senate to try to break spending cut logjam (AFP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PST AFP - Polarized US lawmakers faced two symbolic votes Wednesday designed to spur talks to find a compromise on spending cuts by showing neither the White House nor its Republican foes can get their way.

Senate sets votes on competing spending bills (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PST Reuters - Lawmakers crafted another stopgap spending bill in the House of Representatives on Tuesday to keep the government running while the Senate set votes for Wednesday on two longer-term measures that appeared doomed to failure.

Wis. governor's budget goes far beyond just unions (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST AP - The showdown over collective bargaining rights for public employees is just the first step in a contentious debate over how to solve Wisconsin's budget woes, with newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker also seeking to dismantle an array of social policies enacted under his Democratic predecessor.

Main provisions of the Senate-passed patent bill (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PST AP - Main provisions of legislation passed Tuesday by the Senate to overhaul the patent system:

Senate approves patent reform to end backlog (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to overhaul U.S. patent laws, approving a measure aimed at chipping away at a huge backlog of patent applications and offering alternatives to expensive litigation.

Republicans push for tougher Guantanamo limits (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST AP - House Republicans on Tuesday demanded tougher restrictions for terror suspects at Guantanamo even after President Barack Obama reversed course and ordered the resumption of military trials for detainees.

Hornet's nest ahead? Congress examines Islam in US (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:43 PM PST AP - The wreckage of the World Trade Center still smoldered after the 2001 terrorist attacks when a voice rose above the pain and suspicion to demand that American Muslims not be blamed or mistreated. "Islam is peace," declared George W. Bush, speaking from a mosque and sounding almost like an imam.

What happens if Congress doesn't rein in national debt? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:30 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - What happens if Congress does not rein in the record $14.2 trillion national debt?

Obama wants education spared in budget-cut fight (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:13 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama insisted on Tuesday that education should be shielded from his budget-cutting battle with congressional Republicans if the United States is to compete in a global economy.

NPR executive calls tea party 'seriously racist,' most Americans 'uneducated' (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - A video sting targeting former NPR fund-raising executive Ron Schiller could create political and public-relations problems for the news organization â€" just as it steels itself for a battle with congressional Republicans over federal funding.

George Will wrong about GOP's presidential field, House whip says (video) (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - House majority whip Kevin McCarthy (R) of California disagrees with the highly negative view conservative columnist George Will holds of the 2012 Republican presidential selection process so far.

Out of spotlight, GOP hopefuls prepping for 2012 (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PST AP - Newt Gingrich is the Republican taking some of the most public first steps for a presidential bid, but he's hardly the only one in motion. Far from the media spotlight, White House hopefuls are furiously hiring staff, testing messages for the powerful conservative base of the GOP and mapping out a rough political calendar, all part of a hard-charging effort that precedes the official kickoff.

Sarah Palin scheduled to share ‘testimony of faith’ at Liberty University (Daily Caller) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:16 PM PST Daily Caller - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will need strong support from social conservatives to win the Republican nomination for president in 2012 should she decide to run. One indication that Palin is attuned to this reality is her scheduled appearance at Liberty University's Extraordinary Women Conference.

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