Topic: U.S. Liberal Politics

Obama, Democrats weigh dropping millionaires tax

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats on Wednesday discussed abandoning efforts to impose a surtax on millionaires to help pay for extending a popular payroll tax break for workers, a Senate Democratic leadership aide said.Obama and fellow Democrats in ...

Humala alienates Peru's left, may lose sway in Congress

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian leftists who supported President Ollanta Humala for years are leaving the government and may stop supporting him in Congress, saying his emerging authoritarian tone amounts to a further drift to the right.At least two high-profile leftist aides who ...

El Salvador apologizes 30 years after massacre

El Salvador's government asked for "forgiveness" Saturday over a civil war-era massacre in 1981 in which soldiers executed more than 1,000 people, nearly half of them children.Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the slaughter at the small northeastern village of El Mozote, ...
Ann Coulter has reiterated her claim that liberals would abort gay babiesAnn Coulter has reiterated her claim that liberals would abort gay babies. During an August C-SPAN2 Book TV appearance to pitch her book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, ...

Armed leftists rattle nerves, test Paraguay's Lugo

CAPITAN GIMENEZ, Paraguay (Reuters) - No one thought to mention it when they heard whispers and rustling in the bushes near the police station in Capitan Gimenez, assuming it was the hushed voices of lovers in the dark.The two officers on guard ...
Tunisia's three main parties formalised a power-sharing agreement on Monday, 10 months after the ouster of the north African country's strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which took the most votes in elections last month, ...
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party, on Sunday argued for a modern and democratic concept of Islam after talks with his Algerian counterpart.Ghannouchi held talks with Bouguerra Soltani, president of the Movement for the Society of Peace, an ...

Islamist Jebali poised to become Tunisia PM

Hamadi Jebali of the Islamist Ennahda party was poised Saturday to become Tunisia's new prime minister in the first elected government to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings.In a deal struck by the three main parties, to be officially unveiled Monday, Jebali ...

Islamist Jebali to be Tunisian PM

Hamadi Jebali, of the Islamist Ennahda party, will be Tunisia's next prime minister, under a deal struck between the country's three main parties, a senior politician said.Abdelwaheb Matar, a senior official in the Congress for the Republic party, said the parties had ...

Reid, Boehner huddle on budget deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in Congress said on Tuesday he saw few signs of progress on a deficit-cutting deal as negotiators struggled to bridge their differences on tax increases and benefit cuts.His Republican counterpart, meanwhile, predicted that Congress would approve ...
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