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Moody’s Investors Service cut the debt ratings of six European countries including Italy, Spain and Portugal and said it may strip France and the U.K. of their top Aaa ratings, citing Europe’s debt crisis. – Bloomberg

One of two Republicans to vote against Holder’s nomination to Attorney General, Senator Cornyn says Holder “twists the law” to suit Obama’s leftist agenda. He discusses the outrageous Fast and Furious gun running scandal and Holder’s attack on voter ID laws.

What makes all this particularly worrying is that the Obama administration is currently helping the Saudis and the multinational lobby they host in Jedda, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a longstanding campaign to criminalize expression that offends Muslims.

New poll: 92% of voters extremely or very interested in the election, and 72% saying they are following news from Washington extremely or very closely. At the same time, voters remain pessimistic about the country’s direction – 59% say things are off on the wrong track, 55% feel “mostly negative” about the economy, and 57% believe the federal government hurts economic growth.

[L]arge numbers of its elderly citizens are being “frozen to death as fuel bills soar: hypothermia cases among the elderly double in five years.” England, now gripped by foolish green notions of renewable energy, has covered itself with wind turbines, despoiling its countryside and coasts while proving unreliable and incapable of meeting its energy needs.

Why should it be surprising that economic matters have gotten worse not better? Why should it be surprising that the international situation has deteriorated to where the risk of another world war has probably never been higher since the Cuban missile stand-off?

Angry protesters in the capital threw rocks at the police, who fired back with tear gas. After nightfall, demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, setting fire to more than 40 buildings, including a historic theater in downtown Athens, the worst damage in the city since May 2010, when three people were killed when protesters firebombed a bank.

Same old, same old. Spending more borrowed tax dollars on union funding which funds the Obama campaign. In Obamaspeak “fairness” is government deciding who gets what no matter how hard you work or what you produce or what risks you take with your own money. “Infrastructure” and “education” spending means union jobs which will keep union dues flowing into Democrat campaigns especially Obama’s.

Michele Bachmann at CPAC 2012 spoke of foreign policy failures of the President. She talked of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood which is an enemy of America.

Palin rips Obama as she rallies conservatives at CPAC 2012.