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NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce....

Guatemalan Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, who played a key role in ending a long civil war in 1996, dies aged 80.

Sho Yano will become the youngest student in University of Chicago history to graduate with a medical degree.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking state legislators to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana that are in public view.

Luka Magnotta, accused of murdering and dismembering an ex-lover, had a violent past.

California voters can head to the movies Tuesday to watch "Snow White and the Huntsman," or turn up at the ballot box to see something not much different: "Dianne Feinstein and the 23 Dwarfs."

A voter-approved overhaul of California's election procedures has resulted in a whopping 24 candidates vying for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A CIA drone strike Monday targeted al-Qaida's second in command, Abu Yahia al-Libi, in Pakistan, but it was unclear whether he was among those hit, U.S. officials said....

Britons are enjoying an extra bank holiday for the Diamond Jubilee. How much does an additional day off cost the UK?

Mitt Romney recently pledged to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which receives $450 million a year and helps fund PBS and NPR. Romney reasonably stated:

"I like PBS, we subsidize PBS. Look -- I'm gonna stop that, I'm gonna say PBS is gonna have to have advertisement. We're not gonna kill Big Bird, but Big Bird's gonna have advertisements, all right."

If politicians are sincerely interested in cutting costs at the federal level and balancing the budget they should be willing to start where the choices are easy. Plenty of opportunities exist for legislators to cut budget dollars where the end recipient could reasonably replace the lost money by their own means. If congressional leaders are unwilling to cut where it is easy to do so, how will they ever make tough decisions when they must cut where they do not want to?

One such example that congress should cut funding to is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB. The CPB receives federal money which it then disperses to public radio and television stations, most notably Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). The money lost from public funding could likely be recaptured - if not exceeded - by implementing a market-driven approach to raising capital. Read More

Defund Elmo? Yes, please. originally appeared on About.com Conservative Politics: U.S. on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 00:40:06.

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Mitt Romney recently pledged to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which receives $450 million a year and helps fund PBS and NPR. Romney reasonably stated:

"I like PBS, we subsidize PBS. Look -- I'm gonna stop that, I'm gonna say PBS is gonna have to have advertisement. We're not gonna kill Big Bird, but Big Bird's gonna have advertisements, all right."

If politicians are sincerely interested in cutting costs at the federal level and balancing the budget they should be willing to start where the choices are easy. Plenty of opportunities exist for legislators to cut budget dollars where the end recipient could reasonably replace the lost money by their own means. If congressional leaders are unwilling to cut where it is easy to do so, how will they ever make tough decisions when they must cut where they do not want to?

One such example that congress should cut funding to is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB. The CPB receives federal money which it then disperses to public radio and television stations, most notably Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). The money lost from public funding could likely be recaptured - if not exceeded - by implementing a market-driven approach to raising capital. Read More

Defund Elmo? Yes, please. originally appeared on About.com Conservative Politics: U.S. on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 00:40:06.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- About half of New Yorkers say Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban of sugary drinks over 16 ounces from the city's eateries is an example of government going too far, while 42 percent say it would be good health policy, according to a poll released Monday....

Former Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson reacts to Hugh Hefner's surprising reunion with ex-fiancee Crystal Harris.

Qantas says it expects its profits to fall by as much as 90% amid growing losses at its international operations and higher fuel costs.

RENO, Nev. — A firefighting aircraft crashed into rugged terrain near the Utah-Nevada border as it dropped retardant on a 5,000-acre wildfire, killing the two Idaho men on board.

The air tanker went down Sunday afternoon in the Hamblin Valley area of western Utah, Bureau of Land Management officials said. ...

Dead cat flies. Seriously. We're not kidding. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the cat copter.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker's convincing win Tuesday in Wisconsin was not just a victory for the governor himself, but a major triumph for conservatives in the fight to curb public employee unions. For the country's sake, however, it will be far better if this struggle remains a fight rather than all-out war.

Residents of the Perthshire village of Dull await news on a possible tie-up with the US town of Boring.