At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted …

The Bankers and the Revolutionaries  —  AFTER flying around the world this year to cover street protests from Cairo to Morocco, reporting on the latest “uprising” was easier: I took the subway.  —  The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has taken over a park in Manhattan's financial district and turned it into a revolutionary camp.

Restless House GOP members pointing fingers at one another  —  House Republicans return to Washington this week a restless bunch in the wake of an embarrassing legislative defeat and months before they face primary voters in the 2012 election.  —  The stunning downfall of a stopgap spending bill …

Cheney wants Obama apology for saying Bush administration ‘overreacted to 9/11’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney applauded the U.S. drone strike that killed American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki but added that President Obama now owed the Bush administration an apology for claiming they “overreacted to 9/11.”

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Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won't Give Up Wealth  —  Actress, comedienne and now author Roseanne Barr shares her solution for dealing with the rich and how the banks could repay the money the U.S. government bailed them out with in 2008.  “Part of my platform is, of course …

Figures.  White House Tipped Off AP Reporter Ahead of Michelle Obama's Target Photo-Op  —  Another staged moment in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.  —  Michelle Obama just had to get out to Target to do a little shopping last week.  But, before the shopping run …

U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat  —  (Reuters) - U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.