Is America coming to the Point Of No Return? Not if I can help it! (Strong Tea Drinker) – The purported destruction of the U.S. is not a set of coincidental circumstances, but a cold calculated plan to DAMN the U.S… Their plan is to strip America of its greatness and usher in new world [...]

(The Wall Street Journal) – A gloomy economic assessment from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke erased an earlier stock rally, sending major indexes in the final minutes of Tuesday’s session to their fifth consecutive drop. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 19.15 points, or 0.2%, to 12070.81. The blue-chip index has dropped 4% during [...]

(CNBC) – The dollar fell to a one-month low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday and a record low against the Swiss franc after a Chinese official said the greenback would continue to weaken versus other major currencies. Bill and cash The head of the international payment department at the Chinese forex regulator also [...]

Federal government’s financial condition deteriorated rapidly. U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions. (USAToday) – The federal government’s financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in [...]

(Politico) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Steve Israel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, are calling for an investigation into Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) over the series of sexually explicit conservations and lewd photos he exchanged with a half-dozen women during the last several years.

(Market Watch) – Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will

(Reuters) – The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday. Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference in Durban this year, [...]

(The Daily Beast) – Roger Ailes, the combative conservative behind Fox News, is sounding strangely reasonable these days, going easy on top Democrats

Santorum’s policy positions align with national conservatives who now are looking at many of the expected candidates with skepticism. (FoxNews) – Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum announced Monday that he is entering the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying he’s “in it to win it.” “We’re ready to announce that we’re going to be [...]

(The Hill) – Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012. Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year.

(Politico) – President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will finally hit the links for a round of golf

(Bloomberg) – U.S. stocks fell this week, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its longest streak of losses since 2004, after worse-than-estimated reports on jobs and manufacturing fueled concern earnings growth will slow. All 10 Standard & Poor