112th United States Congress

Is it time for Kofi Annan to give up in Syria?

A growing number of Western diplomats argue privately that it time for Kofi Annan to declare his bid to resolve the Syrian crisis has failed.    The first U.N. monitoring team in Syria.[Photo:worldnews.msnbc.msn.com]

Helium Sales Legislation Would Impact Panhandle — Environmental Problems and Policies | The Texas Tribune

In 1996, Congress passed a law to privatize the Amarillo helium by requiring the federal government to sell nearly all of its reserves. But the law expires in 2014, years before the sell-off will be complete. Last week a Senate committee heard testimony about the bipa …

How big a threat to the U.S. is Russia?

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Top Democrats are jumping all over Mitt Romney for comments he made about Russia. Russia Threatens To Target U.S.Defense Sites With Nuclear Missiles[Photo: theblaze.com] 

The Latest Lies of the New York Times

 The New York Times is, journalistically bankrupt, damned lazy, or a dumping ground for special interest, agenda driven tripe. The substance of its editorial, The Grand Old Party and the Sea is a partisan slam, and a slighting of bi partisan politics. The EDF Catch Sha …

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Republicans Will Find Themselves in Tough Spot if Supreme Court Strikes Down Obamacare

As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …

BREAKING: Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study

The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.

House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To Veto

The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …

House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate

One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …

President more conservative than GOTP :the truth

It wasn't an accident that OUR President took positions that pushed the opposing party off a right wing cliff. The further right he moved the further right they moved. It isn't often that one can control their opponents the way OUR President has played the GOTP. He even gave the …

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Donald Trump Says US 'Crazy' for Enforcing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

The Donald has weighed in. And he says that the USA is “crazy” for enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). “If you want to operate in Mexico, you have to pay bribes,” Donald Trump said on CNBC’s Squakbox program. “This is how  …

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