US News - News February 14, 2012

US official,top general defend military budget (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the top U.S. military leader on Tuesday defended the Pentagon's slimmed-down, $614 billion budget, telling lawmakers it is time to show Congress is serious about reducing the deficit.

New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns (Belleville News Democrat)
In another, visitors are taught to load a revolver. And for when a gun just won't do, an oddball collection of household items - a shovel, a hammer, a baseball bat and an icepick - show the creative side of some of America's most notorious killers.

Banking for pot shops eyed in Colorado (Tri-cityherald)
A Feb. 10, 2012 photo shows Matthew Huron, owner of two medical marijuana dispensaries and an edible marijuana company in Denver, examining a marijuana plant in his grow house.

Florida only state in US with an official chef (Athens Banner-Herald)
The air in the parking lot of Orlando's Citrus Bowl smells like fresh cut oranges, shrimp and barbecue.

China's next leader Xi Jinping visits White House (The Capital-Journal)
In this June 9, 2011 file photo, China's Vice President Xi Jinping waves in Santiago, Chile.

Obama, GOP at odds on tax plan (Detroit News)
President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an ideological battle that won't be resolved until after the November election - if then.

Obama Budget Hikes Transportation Spending (KETV-TV)
It provides $74 billion in proposed transportation spending for the fiscal year starting in October.

Foo Fighters, Cornell to play Obama fundraisers (WXOW-TV La Crosse)
President Barack Obama's upcoming West Coast fundraising trip will feature a musical lineup worthy of Grammy gold.

Gingrich says he's in the race to stay (Delaware Online)
With David Lee Roth back in the saddle, the album's 13 tracks feel more than a little bit familiar... The gesture was the talk of Twitter - but Tivo said there wasn't a big bump in viewers who played... Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop Monday in South El Monte, Calif.

House Republicans Consider Extending Payroll-Tax Cut Alone (nytimes)
Congressional Republicans said Monday that they would back down from their demands that a payroll tax holiday be paid for with spending reductions on other programs, instead offering to extend the tax cut while continuing to haggle over the extension of unemployment insurance and a measure to prevent doctors from losing money on the Medicare ... (more)

House GOP have backup on payroll tax (The Wichita Eagle)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio watches as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va.

Rational Irrationality: Obama's Budget Takes Aim at Deficit Hawks (newyorker)
Peter Orszag and other fiscal hawks, eat your heart out: the Obama Administration's pivot to deficit reduction is well and truly done - until after the election, at least.

'Whitey' Bulger Trial Set for Nov. 5 Over Defense Objection (businessweek)
James "Whitey" Bulger, the reputed Boston mobster and former FBI informant who was captured last year after 16 years on the run, will face trial Nov.

One of America's great machines comes back to life. (theatlantic)
Iron GiantFrom a distance, the thing dominates the horizon of the hangar-like Cleveland Works facility; as you get nearer, catching glimpses through forests of girders and around cliffs of firebrick, it begins to dominate the air above.

Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness (newyorker)
It is tempting to think of online dating as a sophisticated way to address the ancient and fundamental problem of sorting humans into pairs, except that the problem isn't very old.

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