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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she disagrees with the recent move by Moody’s Investors Service’s to shift the U.S. outlook from stable to negative. “The American economy is fundamentally strong and Treasury securities remain the world’s preeminent safe and liquid asset,” Yellen said Monday following the APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting in San Francisco. The Moody’s move is “a decision that I disagree with,” Yellen added. While the U.S. still has its “AAA” rating from Moody’s, the agency called higher interest rates and the rising debt a risk to America’s fiscal strength.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) discussed the ongoing conflict between Israel and terrorist group Hamas. Durbin voiced his support for a cease-fire but made it clear that he “couldn’t disagree” more with the policies of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “when it comes to the treatment of Palestinians.” The Democratic lawmaker from Illinois added he believes a “two-state solution is the only realistic future” in the Middle East.

(Reuters) — Web giants YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database. The companies will share ‘hashes’ – unique digital fingerprints they automatically assign to videos or photos – of extremist content they have removed from their websites to enable their peers to identify the same content on their platforms.   “We hope this collaboration will lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online,” the companies said in a statement on Tuesday....

Hillary Clinton may not be any improvement over Barack Hussein Obama. Let raise an idea about how you could present the arrangement on settlements that you are seeking with Israel as I understand it, i.e. a moratorium coupled with allowances to complete a number of housing units. There are two ways: 1. To describe it as an agreement, explaining why the US has accepted an Israeli completion of a handful of units whose construction already has begun. This raises some concerns. It would represent U.S. legitimization of some (however small) Israeli activity in the West Bank and it would...

Senator Lindsey Graham today disagreed with President Obama's decision to rule out enemy combatant status for the Boston bombing suspect.

As the Climate-gate controversy continues to grow, amid charges of hiding and manipulating data, and suppressing research by academics who challenge global warming, there is one oft-repeated defense: other independent data-sets all reach the same conclusions. "I think everybody is clear on the science. I think scientists are clear on the science ... I think that this notion that there's some debate . . . on the science is kind of silly," said President Obama's Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, when asked about the president's response to the controversy on Monday. Despite the scandal, Britain's Met, the UK’s National Weather Service,...

Why is it Racist to Disagree? Was a black person considered racist for expressing opposition to President Bush because he was white? Why is a white person considered racist for expressing opposition to President Obama because he is black?

SACRAMENTO The top candidates for lieutenant governor disagreed on government spending, health insurance, abortion and several other issues Saturday in a sometimes biting debate that demonstrated sharp differences in their philosophies. Republican Tom McClintock cast the election as a choice between someone who would work to cut taxes and regulations that are "crushing California" and someone who would support increasing them. "I believe firmly that we've got to reduce the taxes and regulations that are crushing our families, that we've got to restore fiscal integrity to California," he told several hundred people at a forum sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to sign landmark legislation to curb emissions of greenhouse gases that many scientists believe are heating the planet. But don't expect fellow Republicans from northern San Diego and southern Riverside counties to get up and cheer when he pulls out his pen. Local GOP lawmakers voted against the legislation, Assembly Bill 32, when it came up for consideration late last month in Sacramento. The area's senators and Assembly members say they worry that the bill, while perhaps crafted with good intentions, will exact a devastating toll on the California economy ---- and for little environmental...

As their month-long border deployment draws to an end, leaders of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say their efforts have brought more attention to the illegal immigration issue and more supporters to their border security movement. Critics are less generous in their assessment, and the U.S. Border Patrol is maintaining its neutral position ----

PANAMA CITY, Panama - Cuba and Venezuela led opposition to free market policies Friday, but Mexican President Vicente Fox called for a "strategic alliance" based on free trade in an ideological clash at the Summit of Caribbean States. Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage also lashed out at the U.S. war on terror, which he called "a campaign of pillage," and said "the recent terror attacks in Madrid and London prove that you can't defeat terrorism with terrorism." Venezuela won praise with offers of oil on easy terms or in exchange for local products, while Cuba offered free medical care as...