Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious?  —  UPDATED: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file.  —  Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress …

Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked … It seemed that all of America was set to endure one more week, at least, of the “Chris Christie Boomlet,” as he was being urged by GOP elites to forgo his promise of suicide and jump into the 2012 race in order to save it.

Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund  —  Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.

Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street  —  Straw Poll on Direct Action (photo: Collin David Anderson)  —  Over the past ten days, hundreds of people have occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York as part of Occupy Wall Street.

Blacks leave Obama  —  Behind the president's whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances.  —  According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey …

O-bummer!  MTV tunes out prez campaign  —  President Obama's re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them down, sources tell The Post.  —  The president's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks …

Split opens over Greek bail-out terms  —  By Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin  —  A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second €109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown …

Megyn Kelly Responds to ‘The View’ Co-Host Joy Behar's Interview With VP Joe Biden on “Boo-ing” in Fox News/Google Debate After Gay Soldier Asks Question  —  On Tuesday's episode of the talk show “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked guest Vice President Joe Biden about “booing” …

‘Nightmare’ in Libya: 20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing  —  U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.  —  But now that calculation is out the window …

As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines  —  For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty.  The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a “guilty mind.”

House GOP wants to cash out dollar bill  —  Several House Republicans have introduced legislation to retire the dollar bill and replace it with a mandated dollar coin.  A couple of senators, however, have introduced a competing measure to protect the paper dollar from, as they say, the “unpopular one dollar coin.”

Perry's Not the Only GOP Star to Support Tuition Breaks for Illegal Immigrants' Kids  —  GOP immigration debate shows rift between party establishment and conservative grassroots.  —  Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended Texas Gov. Rick Perry's policy for children of illegal immigrants.

Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control  —  Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated  —  It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.  —  Voting machines used by as many as a quarter …

Protesters Greet Former Defense Secretary  —  1 Arrest Made At Old Meeting House Event  —  BOSTON — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got a rude welcome in Boston Monday night as he promoted his new book.  —  Several protesters tried to disrupt a forum with Rumsfeld …

Obama's Jobs Bill: Read It and Weep  —  by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)  —  An infernal mish-mash of taxes, subsidies, and regulations.  —  The dim news about the current economic situation …

Report: Consumers spent less, earned less in 2010  —  Government survey shows consumer spending and incomes fell for 2nd straight year in 2010  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers earned less and spent less for a second straight year in 2010.  The government report released Tuesday offered …

Rick Perry's Revisionist Take On The Original Tea Party  —  In a move reminiscent of Sarah Palin's infamous revisionist take on Paul Revere's midnight ride, Rick Perry doesn't seem to actually know what the original Tea Party of the 1770s was about:  —  Contrary to Perry's assertion …

The NRA's self-parody  —  It can't be easy for the National Rifle Association right now.  They have, to a very real extent, simply won the larger debate.  It's over — no one is working on gun control legislation.  President Obama, considered by the NRA to be a terrible threat, has actually expanded gun rights.

Billionaire Owner of Washington Wizards Wants Obama to Stop Calling Him Rich  —  Pictured: Ted Leonsis watches his s**tty basketball team while simultaneously carrying the nation on his back.  —  Looks like Ted Leonsis, the billionaire who owns the Washington Wizards, got his fee-fees hurt …

Police in Spain arrest 5 suspected of financing terrorists  —  Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Civil Guards arrested five Algerian men early Tuesday in northern Spain on suspicion of providing logistical and financial support for Islamic terrorist activities, Spain's interior ministry said.

‘Ben-Hur’ to get belated 50th-anniversary release on disc  —  The 1959 film from William Wyler, which won 11 Oscars including best picture, will have remastered DVD and Blu-ray editions with plenty of extras.  —  William Wyler's 1959 epic, “Ben-Hur,” which dominated the Academy Awards in winning 11 Oscars …