2011年4月27日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Elections

To quell debate, Obama issues birth document (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 10:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One to board Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, April 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday released a longer version of his birth certificate to answer Republican charges he was not born in America, and blasted "carnival barkers" who refuse to let the issue die.

Giuliani Leaves the 'Door Open' for 2012, Praises Trump (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:21 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Rudy Giuliani is leaving "the door open" for a run for the Republican nomination in 2012 if it looks like no one else can beat President Obama, the Washington Times' Ben Birnbaum reports. The former New York mayor is traveling to New Hampshire next week to talk about law enforcement, and he stays in touch with people there to "try to figure out what kind of a chance I have."

Ryan plan puts elderly vote in play (Politico)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2011 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. Standard & Poor's Ratings Service downgraded its outlook Monday on the United States' sovereign debt, expressing unprecedented doubts over the ability of Washington to bring the massive federal budget deficits under control in the next three years. He is flanked by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., left, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politico - Democrats still smarting from their 2010 mid-term defeat see Republican Rep. Paul Ryan’s controversial plan to overhaul Medicare as political aspirin, a cure for just about everything that ails them.

Obama proposes broadening EPA's power over water (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:12 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration proposed new guidelines Wednesday that would boost the government's ability to protect streams, wetlands and other sensitive waterways from pollution.

New Tibetan PM expects Dalai Lama return to Tibet (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Lonbsang Sangay, newly-elected to be the prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile, meets with reporters during a visit to the Washington office of the International Campaign for Tibet, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The newly elected prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile predicted Wednesday that the 75-year-old Dalai Lama will return during his lifetime to the homeland he fled five decades ago.

9/11 First Responders to Be Screened for Terrorist Ties to Get Benefits (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:57 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Remember the First Responders Bill, the piece of legislation that was kicked around Congress for years before it was about to meet its certain legislative death before comedian Jon Stewart helped resurrect it by shaming Congress on his show the Thursday before Thanksgiving?

Birth Certificate Release Hurts Obama, Helps Trump (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:56 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | This morning, the White House released President Obama's original birth certificate in the hopes of killing the conspiracy theories that state that Obama should not be president. As a former political advisor and consultant, I believe that this is the worst thing that the White House could have done right now as it expands the conspiracy and gives credence to the possible run of Donald Trump. The White House just did more damage than the conspiracies ever did.

Indiana lawmakers OK broadest voucher plan in US (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:06 PM PDT

AP - Indiana will create the nation's broadest private school voucher system and enact other sweeping education changes, making the state a showcase of conservative ideas just as Gov. Mitch Daniels nears an announcement on whether he will make a 2012 presidential run.

In NH, Trump takes credit for Obama birth info (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:44 PM PDT

AP - After weeks of suggesting Barack Obama was born in Africa, Donald Trump hastened to boast that he had forced the Democratic president to release a detailed Hawaii birth certificate disproving that claim, painting an apparent setback as a victory within minutes of arriving in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

Family of doctor who delivered Obama 'honored' (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT

This handout image provided by the White House shows a copy of the long form of President Barack Obama's birth certificate from Hawaii. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The family of a Honolulu doctor whose signature appears on President Barack Obama's birth certificate woke up to the news Wednesday that the late obstetrician had delivered Obama.

New Mexico school bans club meetings after gay club formed (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Reuters - A school board in Clovis, New Mexico, voted to ban all extra-curricular clubs from meeting during school hours after a gay-straight alliance applied to become a club.

Dean Heller named to fill Nevada Senate seat (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Nevada's governor on Wednesday named third-term Congressman Dean Heller to fill the nearly two years remaining in the Senate term of fellow Republican John Ensign, who is resigning next week following a sex scandal.

Obama takes re-election fund drive to New York City (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:14 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to rally supporters, ranging from wealthy New Yorkers to youthful hip-hop music fans, on a re-election fundraising drive to rekindle the enthusiasm that propelled his 2008 campaign.

If the Fed Can't Save Us, Then Who Can? (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:50 PM PDT

Time.com - If the Fed is done with monetary stimulus, do we need Congress to inject more fiscal stimulus?

Mo. Gov. Nixon signs compromise dog-breeding bill (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:45 PM PDT

AP - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed into law new legislation rewriting a voter-approved law on dog-breeding operations.

Obama sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. President Barack Obama plans this week to name Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Lawmakers protest for-profit schools rule (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:38 PM PDT

Reuters - A bipartisan group of 113 lawmakers has written to President Barack Obama, urging the withdrawal of a rule aimed at reining in for-profit trade schools and colleges.

Hawaii government hands over Obama's birth records (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama laughs in the White House briefing room in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, as he speaks to reporters about the controversy over his birth certificate and true nationality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Until this week, Hawaii officials said they wouldn't release original birth records for anyone, under any circumstances. Even if it was President Barack Obama.

Nev. governor names Heller to Ensign's Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2011 file photo, Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev. is seen in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has named Heller to replace John Ensign in the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - U.S. Rep. Dean Heller will enter next year's U.S. Senate race from the perch of incumbency after Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday named Heller to succeed John Ensign next month.

Cain wants to ‘unravel all unfunded mandates,’ has 100,000 strong ‘boot-on-the-ground’ grassroots campaign activists in place (Daily Caller)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:25 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dismissed concerns about what some see as his campaigns biggest weakness, his lack of political experience, in remarks at a Wednesday Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) luncheon.

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