Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials.

Ever-increasing tax breaks for U.S. families eclipse benefits for special interests  —  As President Obama and congressional Republicans argue over how to rewrite the U.S. tax code, the debate has revolved around “loopholes” for corporate jets and ending “carve-outs” for well-heeled special interests.

Eleanor Mondale, Daughter of Former Vice President, Dies at 51  —  Eleanor Mondale Poling, a former television and radio personality and the daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, died early Saturday at her home in Prior Lake, Minn. She was 51.

Rex Murphy: The media's love affair with a disastrous president  —  As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue.  American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama's rise …

Suddenly, Over There Is Over Here  —  THE debt crisis in Europe has finally, and officially, washed up on American shores.  Last week, the mighty Federal Reserve moved to help European banks that have been having trouble finding people who are willing to lend them money.

The Masters of Hispanic Destiny  —  ‘Do we want to be the next victimized minority group, or do we want to be the next successful immigrant group?’  —  Fourteen months out, it's a safe bet that Election 2012 won't hinge on immigration.  But with no major federal action on the issue since 1986 …

The myth of Palestinian peoplehood  —  Senior Palestinian leaders have admitted - openly, consistently and continually - that Palestinians are not a discrete people identifiably different from others in the Arab world.  —  For example, on March 14, 1977, Farouk Kadoumi …

Silvio Berlusconi wiretaps reveal boast of spending night with eight women  —  Conversations show that Italian PM resented meetings with the Pope and world leaders interfering with his partying  —  Magistrates investigating an alleged prostitution ring in Italy have published wiretaps …

US links militant group to Pakistan government  —  The United States says there is evidence linking the Pakistani government to the militant group that carried out last week's attack on the US embassy in Kabul.  —  The US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, claims there are links between …

Obama's Solyndra scandal reeks of the Chicago Way  —  Those of us from Chicago know exactly what the Solyndra scandal smells like.  And It doesn't smell fresh and green.  —  The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars.  It is plaguing President Barack Obama.

When the parts are more popular than the whole  —  The New York Times/CBS News poll, released in full last night, has plenty of results you'd probably expect to see.  President Obama's support continues to slip; Congress' support has fallen off a cliff; Dems are slightly more popular than Republicans …