Ron Paul polls just 4 points below Obama if the two ran head-to-head

This is embarrassing for the President. Ron Paul is a fringe candidate with no chance of being the nominee of the Republican Party. This shows that unprincipled incumbent is vulnerable to a fringe candidate who stands on strong principles--even if offbeat:

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), among the most conservative members of the House and for many a long shot in the 2012 presidential race, would be only a 4-point underdog against President Obama at this time, according to a poll released Friday.

Rasmussen is reporting that Obama is in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney; the former Massachusetts governor is polling 1 point ahead of the president. In polling of Romney versus Obama, the president received 42% compared with Romney's 43%, a tossup considering the margin of error.

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Silent majority fed up with Washington

Silent majority fed up with Washington - CNN.com

The debate is dominated by the political extremes. Those on the far right would rather have the federal government default on its financial obligations than give ground on what is anathema to most conservatives: raising taxes. Those on the far left would rather risk default than give ground on what is anathema to most liberals: reducing entitlements.
Caught between these two extremes are those Americans who want their leaders to set aside ideology and do what's best for the country. This is America's silent majority. These are the Americans who watch ESPN and HGTV at night instead of MSNBC and Fox. They vote in most elections, although they've been known to miss a primary or two. If they contribute to a campaign, it's usually to a local candidate or a friend who's running for the school board.

Gunmen kill Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran

Gunmen kill Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran

Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an Iranian nuclear physicist on Saturday, Iranian media reports said, in a killing that bore similarities to other slayings of scientists involved in the country's nuclear work in recent years.

The semi-official ISNA news agency identified the victim as Darioush Rezaei, a 35-year-old physics professor involved in Iran's nuclear program, and said he was shot dead in front of his home in Tehran. Iran's official IRNA news agency also reported the killing but had few details on the attack or the man's background.

U.S. wastes $34 billion in Afghan and Iraq contracting

That's money that could have gone towards reducing the debt.
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Federal Spending In Ron Paul’s District Quadrupled In The Last Ten Years

Federal Spending In Ron Paul’s District Quadrupled In The Last Ten Years
THINK PROGRESS | JULY 22, 2011
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Federal spending in anti-government Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) district has quadrupled since 1999 to more than $4 billion, ... read more

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REPORT: Number Of Tea Party Events Down More Than 50 Percent In 2011

REPORT: Number Of Tea Party Events Down More Than 50 Percent In 2011
THINK PROGRESS | JULY 22, 2011
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Last September, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin answered critics who predicted that the movement would soon ... read more

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Harry Reid: House Taking A Weekend Off Could Cause Catastrophe

Harry Reid: House Taking A Weekend Off Could Cause Catastrophe
HUFFINGTON POST: POLITICS | JULY 21, 2011
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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are setting up a catastrophic U.S. default by deciding to take a weekend off while time to ... read more

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Man's call for Obama assassination is free speech, not crime, court rules

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/07/online-call-to-shoot-obama-was-free-speech-not-a-crime-appeals-court-rules.html

Huge deficit-cutting bill sails through GOP House

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Debt-hope-Obama-praises-Gang-apf-120819518.html?x=0

Ron Paul: "We Will Default Because The Debt Is Unsustainable"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/19/ron_paul_we_will_default_because_the_debt_is_unsustainable.html

Free trade agreement needs closer scrutiny

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94-year-old upset by TSA pat down

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A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far.

Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA security checkpoint before boarding a flight home.

Peterson said she was selected for extra screening. First, security officers lifted her out of her wheelchair and helped her stand in a full body scanner. Then, she was given a physical pat down.

Gordon Brown says News International worked with criminals to spy on him

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday accused Rupert Murdoch's News International media group of using criminals to illegally obtain information about his private life and of the shock he felt when it published a story about his baby's ill health.

Cyber terrorism set to increase after al-Qaeda calls for more cyber attacks, says government

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Storms trigger near-record Chicago power outages

http://www.topix.com/us/2011/07/storms-trigger-near-record-chicago-power-outages?fromrss=1

Mystery of twin's brain damage tied to wipes

Mystery of twin's brain damage tied to wipes
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
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For nearly four years, no one knew what caused the rare bacterial infection that left Myles Massey brain-damaged while his twin ... read more

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Bad bug: Gonorrhea strain resists all drugs

Bad bug: Gonorrhea strain resists all drugs
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
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For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, ... read more

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Pawlenty blasts Bachmann's 'nonexistent' record

Pawlenty blasts Bachmann's 'nonexistent' record
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
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Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said Sunday that 2012 rival Michele Bachmann has a "nonexistent" record of ... read more

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Bush Tax Cuts Cost $2 Trillion in Revenues

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Labor Angered by Obama's willingness to cut Social Security in Debt ceiling Deal

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Unions are making it known that Social Security cuts are unacceptable to them and say they will lobby against any cuts to the popular entitlement program.

“I think this is a huge political mistake for Democrats,” Chuck Loveless, legislative director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told The Hill.

NY Times Column: The Unemployed Don't Matter to the Politicians

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What gives? And where, if anywhere, is the outrage?

The United States is in the grips of its gravest jobs crisis since Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House. Lose your job, and it will take roughly nine months to find a new one. That is off the charts. Many Americans have simply given up.

But unless you’re one of those unhappy 14 million, you might not even notice the problem. The budget deficit, not jobs, has been dominating the conversation in Washington. Unlike the hard-pressed in, say, Greece or Spain, the jobless in America seem, well, subdued. The old fire has gone out.

Wisconsin GOP Running Fake Democrats to Undermine Recall Elections

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It looks like allies of Wisconsin Republicans are growing so desperate that they’re resorting to sleazy dirty tricks in their last-ditch bid to help the GOP hang on to the state senate.

Scientist: NKorea paid Pakistanis for nuclear tech

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The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology.

Polifact: Gov. Scott Walker's Statement that “the largest deficit ever in Wisconsin” was 2 years ago, is false.

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Appearing on a national cable TV show viewed by some 269,000 people, Walker said the state’s largest structural deficit had come two years earlier, under his Democratic predecessor. He was off by seven years and a political party.

We rate his statement False.

Since 2009, 88 Percent Of Income Growth Went To Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went To Wages

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“Between the second quarter of 2009 and the fourth quarter of 2010, real national income in the U.S. increased by $528 billion. Pre-tax corporate profits by themselves had increased by $464 billion while aggregate real wages and salaries rose by only $7 billion or only .1%. Over this six quarter period, corporate profits captured 88% of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1% of the growth in real national income. …The absence of any positive share of national income growth due to wages and salaries received by American workers during the current economic recovery is historically unprecedented.”