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A slap to the GOP… from Goldman Sachs?!

Andrew Leonard
The Republican spending bill will slow down U.S. economic growth, predicts the investment bank
Scott Walker and Barack Obama

The battle for Wisconsin goes to Washington

Andrew Leonard
Why Scott Walker's fight with the unions will raise the stakes for Obama's budget showdown with House Republicans

House GOP votes to axe Planned Parenthood funding, defang EPA

Andrew Taylor
Actions push the president and Republican-led Congress further apart as government shut-down looms
(AP)

State Democrats boycott Wisconsin anti-union bill

Scott Bauer
Senator: My colleagues left Wisconsin to force negotiations on a bill that is "tearing the state apart"
Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The easy way to cut $100 billion

Tom Engelhardt
Serious about fixing our budget woes? Then it's time to defund the unwinnable disaster in Afghanistan
Michael Fell, of Culver City, Calif., holds up a sign reading "STOP SPENDING MONEY" as he speaks at a tea party rally in Irvine, Calif., Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong)

Who wants a government shutdown? Everybody!

Andrew Leonard
A perfect match: Tea Partyers are after street cred while Obama knows the political fallout will hurt Republicans
From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale, and others, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the HouseArmed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Obama victory as House votes down expensive jet fighter engine

Andrew Taylor
The House of Representatives voted down an expensive next-generation military jet engine in floor vote today
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

GOP: No government shutdown if you give us what we want

Andrew Leonard
Paul Ryan promises that Republicans won't force the ultimate budget showdown. Why would he do that?
Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The protests, which saw tens of thousands of people massing daily in downtown Cairo for demonstrations that at times turned violent, have raised questions about the impact on the economy. More than 160,000 foreign tourists fled the country in a matter of days last week, in an exodus sure to hammer the vital tourism sector. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati) (AP)

Why Mubarak fell

Michael Schwartz
The (sometimes) incredible power of nonviolent protest
President Barack Obama speaks at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology, in Parkville, Md., Monday, Feb., 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Carolyn Kaster)

Reasons to cheer for Obama’s budget

Andrew Leonard
If enacted, the president's spending plan would accomplish great things. So why are liberals so upset?
In this photo taken Feb. 10, 2011, stacks of the appendix of the 2012 budget wait to be bound at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington. President Barack Obama Obama will send his 2012 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, Feb. 14. According to an Office of Management and Budget summary obtained by The Associated Press, the administration will propose more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade with two-thirds of that amount coming from spending cuts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

Obama’s budget is irrelevant

Andrew Leonard
The real fight is over how to keep the government going past March 4. Everything else is a sideshow
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio watches as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Obama’s choice: Fight fire with gasoline

Robert Reich
The president proposes a budget with spending cuts ... which have nothing to do with reviving the economy
John Boehner

House GOP unveils deeper spending cuts

David Espo
Proposed package, toughened at the behest of tea party backed lawmakers, would cut $61 billion in domestic spending
People wave signs at a Tea Party protest on the grounds of the Colorado state Capitol in Denver on April 15, 2009.

The Tea Party budget takeover

Andrew Leonard
The new crop of Republicans in Congress are calling the shots -- and raising the odds of a government shutdown
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell answers a question about falling ice at Cowboys Stadium while taking part in a news conference to launch the Gen YOUth Foundation at the NFL football Super Bowl XLV Media Center in Dallas, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will face each other in Super Bowl XLV Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (AP)

After Super Bowl, NFL stoppage looms

AP/Salon
Football will face a labor dispute, despite its wild success
A veiled woman holds a poster calling for President Hosni Mubarak to go, in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

Mubarak angers Egypt masses, despite vow

AP/Salon
The Egyptian president's abdication promise does little to quell the protests
The crowd gathers in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (Khalil Hamra)

Mubarak will not seek reelection, if elected he will not serve

AP/Salon
Addressing his nation and the world, Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for president in September

Egypt’s communications ‘kill switch’

Dan Gillmor
Just what Joe Lieberman wants for America?
** FILE **In this photo released by European plane maker Airbus, Friday Dec. 17, 2004 of Air Asia, China signed an order Thursday with Airbus for 150 mid-size A320 planes as the European aircraft maker took a major step toward opening its first Chinese assembly line, Thursday, Oct 26, 2006. The Airbus sale was among a series of business deals signed as French President Jacques Chirac began a state visit to China. (AP Photo/Airbus, HO) (Associated Press)

The risks of speedy turnarounds

Patrick Smith
Getting a plane off the gate quickly and on-time is a point of pride for airlines. But how fast is too fast?
WASHINGTON - APRIL 27: House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) delivers an opening statement during a conference committee meeting in the U.S. Captiol April 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. House and Senate lawmakers have already struck a tentative deal on the FY2010 budget resolution and they hope to file a conference report after today's meeting. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Paul Ryan (Chip Somodevilla)

House GOP votes to return to pre-Obama spending levels

Andrew Taylor
Over at the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid rejects president's call for banning earmarks in spending bill

Why Obama is ready for the debt ceiling showdown

Andrew Leonard
The White House is loaded with veterans of the last great battle to keep the government operating

“It is the most monumental insanity”

Andrew Leonard
Conservative historian Bruce Bartlett explains why Tea Party thinking on national debt ceiling is "idiotic"
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) listens during a media availability to discuss planning for a new Republican majority, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Reuters)

Wanted: A Democratic tax-cut backbone

Andrew Leonard
Obama's readiness to cut a deal is upsetting liberals. Maybe it's time for them to act like Republicans?
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Iran President: Uranium centrifuges impacted by computer worm

Ali Akbar Dareini
Ahmadinejad admits Stuxnet caused problems for centrifuges in Iran
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