Paul: Both sides need to give in  —  Washington (CNN) - To reach a deal in Congress over the national debt, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said both political parties need to make concessions, excluding higher tax rates.  —  “The compromise is for conservatives to admit …

Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks  —  Liberal Democrats were often befuddled by President Reagan's “Teflon presidency.”  —  By their lights, Reagan could commit the most heinous acts, but their criticisms were usually shrugged off by the American people, who judged him a “nice guy” who deserved the benefit of the doubt.

President Whatever finds things not going his way  —  Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone  —  Barack Obama is a politician who likes to follow through on long-term strategies and avoid making course corrections.  That's how he believes he won in 2008 and since then he's shown that he's not much into details.

Holder's 4G tax lax  —  US Attorney General Eric Holder and his brother failed to pay the property taxes on their childhood home in Queens, which they inherited last August after their mother died, The Post has learned.  —  And because their ailing mom, Miriam, was already behind …

‘Wear a headscarf or we will kill you’: How the ‘London Taliban’ is targeting women and gays in bid to impose sharia law  —  Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.

Vandals Break In WI Office - Steal Fleebagger Recall Petitions Hours After It Was Announced Enough Signatures Were Collected (Video)  —  On Thursday Wisconsin conservatives announced that they had collected enough signatures 15,000 to recall fleebagger Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay.

Let's Not Be Civil  —  Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party's values — in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society.  Immediately thereafter, as always happens when Democrats take a stand, the civility police came out in force.

Trump: I'm ‘much bigger’ than Romney  —  (CNN) - Real estate mogul Donald Trump touted his net worth as a selling point over likely presidential contender and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.  —  “I'm a much bigger business man and have (a) much, much bigger net worth.

Politics In A Steep Recession  —  Some people have expressed surprise that the Great Recession hasn't proven to be a boon to left-wing political movement.  I think the expectation that something like that would be the result of a financial collapse is based on an over-generalization of FDR and the New Deal.

Rick Santorum says he had ‘nothing to do with’ campaign slogan taken from Langston Hughes poem  —  Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum announced Wednesday that he was forming an exploratory committee for a possible presidential run.  His slogan was, and remains on his website, “Fighting to make America America again.”

Radial Islamist groups gaining stranglehold in Egypt  —  The rapid spread of Muslim political parties ahead of September's parliamentary elections has strengthened fears that Egyptian democracy will be dominated by radical Islamic movements.  —  Mohammed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader …

Will Liberals Learn to Love Ricardo Sanchez?  —  Democrats think they have a candidate who can win Texas' open Senate seat: Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. … As far as your usual Senate candidates go, Sanchez will indeed have a more interesting life story and resume: rising from humble roots …