“Protests” on The Daily Caller

Two gay men who shared a drawn-out kiss in the audience of a Rick Santorum speech Friday night found themselves led out of the Christian Liberty Academy auditorium in Arlington Heights, Ill. along with two friends who had come with them to the event. (more)

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Crowds began to gather in Romania’s capital for the eighth day Friday as a U.S. official urged Romanians to avoid the violence that has tarred anti-government protests that have left more than 60 people injured. (more)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A nationwide strike and demonstrations have unleashed years of pent-up frustrations in Nigeria over its kleptocratic leaders, and the rage has grown even stronger across social media this week. (more)

Some Senate Republicans, less than enthused by saber-rattling from Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) on Libya, warned on Monday that sending military aid to anti-Qadaffi rebels could draw the US into all-out war. (more)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said a sustained rise in prices for oil and other commodities would threaten the economic recovery, but that even with the turmoil in the Middle East he did not expect higher prices would create inflation problems in the United States. (more)

Today, in fifty cities across the country, US Uncut debuted as a serious, mobilized effort to fight corporate tax dodging. February 26 was the group’s big national Day Of Action—the first coordinated effort by the organization and its regional captains to educate the public and drum up support for the movement. (more)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers represents just one piece of his vision for the state’s future. Now he’s ready to reveal the rest. (more)

Although they’ve stayed out of Wisconsin since last Thursday, a couple of the Democratic state senators stowed away in Illinois indicated that they will continue to resist Gov. Scott Walker’s attempts to convene a quorum. (more)

As Wisconsin’s public union protesters make national headlines, Herb Kohl, the Badger State’s long-serving Democratic senator, has kept a low profile. (more)

Wisconsin’s public school teachers and the unions that represent them are saying budget cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker would be devastating — but many of those teachers make more money than they’re letting on. (more)

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight. (more)

Bahrain, an important U.S. ally off the coast of Saudi Arabia, has been rocked by protests in recent days as the Middle East’s “Rolling Revolution” spreads to the Persian Gulf. (more)

According to a number of tips we’ve received in the past few minutes, the chatter on Twitter and several local reports (mostly in Arabic), it appears Egyptian authorities have moved to block Facebook. (more)

Capitol police arrested four protesters last week after they staged a sit-in in front of Sen. John McCain’s Russell Senate Office Building office. (more)

PARIS — After nearly three weeks of debate and a series of national strikes, the French Senate voted Friday evening to pass President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60 and the age for a full pension to 67 from 65. (more)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly late last week. He reminded America and the free world just what a crazed worldview he holds when he called for an investigation into whether the United States government was behind the attack on the World Trade Centers on 9/11. It was brilliant theater and a classic distraction technique to be sure. What he didn’t want you and I to focus on was what his brutal, menacing regime is doing to its own people, to its neighbors, and to the world. (more)

BRUSSELS (AP) — Tens of thousands of workers marched Wednesday through the streets of Europe, decrying the loss of jobs and benefits they fear will come with stinging austerity measures seeking to contain government debt. (more)

The NYPD has called up “an army of cops” to handle rival protests expected to draw thousands to the site of the planned Ground Zero mosque on the anniversary of 9/11, sources said yesterday. (more)

PINE CITY, Minn. (AP) — Three U.S. mothers who have pleaded with Iranian authorities for more than a year to free their sons and daughter from a Tehran prison finally received a piece of the news they’ve been longing for. (more)

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports. (more)