“Joe Lieberman” on The Daily Caller

Congress is poised to decide whether aggressive, bold education reform in the District of Columbia will continue at an accelerated pace, or whether the interests of adults will trump the best interests of students. The time has come to put aside the needs of special interests and do what’s right for children — right now and by any means necessary. (more)

A spokesman for a Libyan rebel group says his organization does not want foreign governments to intervene in their struggle against Moammar Gaddafi’s regime, Al Arabia reports. (more)

A new Congress has brought better prospects for supporters of the D.C. school-choice program abruptly nixed by Congress in 2009. (more)

Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa asked 150 industry groups which of President Obama’s regulations they think are impeding economic growth. (more)

Senators remembered former President Ronald Reagan on Thursday, a few days before his 100th birthday. Members of both parties spoke during a two-hour tribute. (more)

Sponsors of legislation that would give the president the authority to shut down the Internet during a national emergency are coming out to defend their bill in the face of criticism that the bill is a threat to free speech. (more)

President Hosni Mubarak hasn’t been able to stop the protesters who took to Egypt’s streets on Tuesday, so in the ensuing days, he’s attempted to stop them from communicating with each other and the outside world. (more)

Perhaps it was uncharacteristic behavior for Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to condescendingly call Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington “sweetheart” last week, but it’s still a topic of discussion. (more)

After a few days’ absence thanks to either bad oysters or the stomach flu, Keith Olbermann returned to “Countdown” this week with scores to settle, names to name and questionable accomplishments to brag about. Let’s review! (more)

In 1964 I read your editorials, written as chairman of the Yale Daily News from Mississippi, where you, a nice Jewish boy from Stamford, Conn., were risking your comfortable life (and indeed, perhaps your very life itself) in the great moral cause of our generation: ending segregation and winning civil rights for all black Americans. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is retiring and his party has a big problem in 2012 — and beyond. (more)

Add David M. Walker, the former comptroller of the United States under Presidents Clinton and Bush, to the list of likely candidates to run for Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman seat in 2012. (more)

Senator Joe Lieberman called Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday to tell him he is not running for re-election in 2012. That’s actually good news for Democrats. Although the Independent Lieberman is a member of the Democratic caucus, his decision to retire makes it easier for Democrats to hang on to his Connecticut Senate seat. (more)

Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman will announce tomorrow that he will not seek re-election in 2012, a source says. (more)

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) will announce tomorrow whether he plans to retire or run for a fifth term in office in 2012, a long-awaited decision for the man who has become a liberal lightning rod in recent years. (more)

Controlling and neutralizing the opposition’s speech is the name of the left’s game. The liberal speech police have had us walking on eggshells with politically correct speech lists for so long now that by the time we learn a newly sanctioned liberal term for persons, places, or things, it is outdated and we are suddenly branded hate-filled radicals for using it. (more)

1.) Two Democrats announce plans to overreact to Tucson massacre — A little more than 24 hours after a lone gunman attempted to assassinate Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killing and wounding more than a dozen others in the process, two Democratic representatives announced their plans to further restrict Americans’ freedom. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed and her son injured in a subway car shooting, wants to renew a Clinton-era ban on large ammunition magazines, as well as investigate the type of ammunition used by deranged (and possibly schizophrenic) shooter Jared L. Loughner. “Looking at the number of clips that he was able to fire, from 15 to 20 rounds, we need to look at those and say, ‘Why should an average citizen be able to have that?’” McCarthy told Newsday. “If you have a semiautomatic and can’t take someone down with a standard clip, you shouldn’t have one.” Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Robert Brady would like to make it “a federal crime for a person to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a Member of Congress or federal official.” When asked by CNN if he honestly expected his colleagues to join him in defecating on the First Amendment, Brady replied, “Why would you be against it?” (more)

During the second half of 2010 PPP polled on approval ratings for 59 different Senators. Here’s some of the information on how they stack up: (more)

Repeal of the military’s ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy appears to be a lock. With four moderate Senate Republicans planning to vote for repeal, supporters now have 61 votes — more than the majority needed for passage and enough to to prevent a filibuster. But opponents are going into hyper-drive, attempting to stop what now appears to be inevitable. (more)

A standalone bill to repeal the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy appears to have the votes to make its way through Congress, a top House Democrat suggested Tuesday. (more)