Of course, 2013 will be fine, because the 1950s sure were. That’s the premise for the coming year, especially in regard to the agreement in Washington to raise U.S. tax rates on the well-off. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
Americans preparing for this year’s holiday season got a nasty pre-Christmas present from the U Original post on tribune.com Comments on reddit.com
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years. Original post on politicususa.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government’s authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists. Known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law allows the government to monitor overseas phone calls and emails without obtaining a court order for each intercept. Original post on seattlepi.com Comments on reddit.com
Hagel’s presence in the Obama cabinet could easily, in some circumstances, make the difference between war and peace. Original post on aljazeera.com Comments on reddit.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both delivered two of the most controversial speeches at the latest session Original post on current.com Comments on reddit.com
The president has fallen far short of promises to establish “an unprecedented level of openness in government.” Original post on reason.com Comments on reddit.com
Matt Damon rather infamously said in 2011 that he wouldn’t mind if President Barack Obama — whom the actor had supported in 2008 — was a one-term president because he’d rather have a “one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done.” (The comment even earned Damon some flak from the president himself.)But,… Original post on politico.com Comments on reddit.com
Though the House of Representatives isn’t scheduled to return to session until the new year, on Wednesday President Obama cut his vacation in Hawaii short to Original post on nationalmemo.com Comments on reddit.com
The new meme to come out of the Romney family is that Mitt never wanted to be President anyway, so fug you America! Original post on politicususa.com Comments on reddit.com
Evo Morales will mark the solstice by sailing across Lake Titicaca in one of the largest reed ships built in modern times Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A heavily decorated Army Green Beret, fired by the U.S. Postal Service in 2000 for taking military leave, must be reinstated in his mail job and retroactively paid by the USPS for back wages, benefits and legal fees — an amount that may top $2 million, an administrative la … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized with a lung infection, has successfully undergone a procedure to have gallstones Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, President Obama made his first statement on how his administration will react to ballot measures that legalized the Original post on nationalmemo.com Comments on reddit.com
fiscal-cliff deal. the fiscal cliff. Original post on hillnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced late Saturday that his cancer has returned and that he will go to Cuba to undergo surgery. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy canceled most of a controversial decree, but vowed to press forward with a planned referendum on a draft constitution. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Former President Bill Clinton says in a new documentary that his administration’s attempts to limit drug trafficking from Colombia “hasn’t worked.” Clinton joined other world leaders — including former President Jimmy Carter — in filmmaker Sam Branson’s new documentary, “Breaking the Taboo,” which… Original post on politico.com Comments on reddit.com
Ahmed Omar, Health Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday night that 27 people have been injured so far in the protests at the presidential palace in Heliopolis. The head of ambulance services said earlier in a statement that the injuries are mostly bruises and difficulty breathing due to the tear gas. He reported that there have been no deaths. Original post on egyptindependent.com Comments on reddit.com
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. Original post on chicagotribune.com Comments on reddit.com
Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama nominated two Latino judges from Philadelphia to fill the seats for the district court in Pennsylvania. … Read More Original post on nbclatino.com Comments on reddit.com
The full transcript of our interview. Original post on businessinsider.com Comments on reddit.com
New polls have bad news for the GOP when it comes to the so-called “fiscal cliff.” The public is more interested in the budget negotiations than any othe Original post on nationalmemo.com Comments on reddit.com
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An autopsy on the exhumed body late President Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey out of military rule in the 1980s, has revealed evidence of poisoning, a newspaper reported on Monday.There Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
Forget all the lame jokes about Cheech and Chong: social revolutions in a democracy should not be lightly dismissed. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
After four years in which more than 300 drone strike killed some 2,500 people, President Obama and his team thought it was finally time to develop some actual, written-down rules on when the United States could kill someone. And what led them to this conclusion? Could it have been a… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com