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Voters’ Anti-Establishment Mood Bites Both Parties
The anti-establishment political tide that ousted a three-term GOP senator in Utah has spread well beyond the tea party.
It toppled a longtime Democratic congressman from West Virginia on Tuesday, and several White House-favored lawmakers elsewhere are confronting liberal voters who don’t want party elites telling them what to do.
In Pennsylvania, many Democratic voters seem unmoved [...]
NZ heading in the wrong direction – Goff
Labour leader Phil Goff has launched a pre-emptive attack on the Government’s budget next week accusing it of creating an unfair New Zealand which is increasingly lagging behind Australia, saying what direction a Government he led would take.
He said the Government planned a “tax switch” to benefit the rich, was failing to grow the economy [...]
Coalition government sets to work
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David Cameron gave his first speech as prime minister outside 10 Downing Street
New UK Prime Minister David Cameron is beginning to shape [...]
Senators Say Nation Needs New Defenses Against New Type of Terrorist
Ten days after the attempted car bombing in Time Square and the arrest of Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, the Senate Intelligence Committee was formally briefed by the FBI and members of the intelligence community, with both the chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and ranking Republican, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., calling that unacceptable.
“It’s very hard to understand [...]
Big companies to gain from research boost
The Government is picking proven winners with its new $321 million science funding boost rather than taking a punt on smaller unproven firms, say critics of the plan.
Prime Minister John Key yesterday unveiled his Government’s plan to allocate $225 million in new money and $96 million in “reprioritised” science spending to support commercially focused research [...]
Labour ‘ready to concede defeat’
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David Cameron: ”It is now.. decision time for the Liberal Democrats”
A close ally of Gordon Brown has suggested to the BBC that [...]
Kentucky Senate Candidate No Guaranteed Vote for McConnell as GOP Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Front-runner Rand Paul said in a U.S. Senate debate Monday night that he may not support Kentucky’s other senator, Mitch McConnell, for minority floor leader if he’s elected.
“I’d have to know who the opponent is and make a decision at that time,” Paul said in a sometimes testy televised debate, the final [...]
Obama Administration Eases Path for Airline, Rail Workers to Unionize
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections among airline and railroad workers, marking the most significant change to date by the White House easing the expansion of organized labor.
Instead of requiring a majority of workers at a railroad or airline to favor banding together to form a union, [...]