Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.

The country's top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979.

His comments came as Iran said it would begin to produce higher enriched uranium from Tuesday, in defiance of Western powers trying to ensure the country's nuclear drive is peaceful. ... 

As of February 4th, the national debt amounted to $12,346,427,470,024.01, roughly 87 percent of GDP. This is a higher percentage than it has been since 1950, in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

The Bureau of the Public Debt, however, makes a distinction between “debt held by the public,” which is $7,840,400,752,727.59 (55 percent of GDP) and “intragovernmental debt” ($4,506,026,717,296.42 — 32 percent of GDP), which is held by various branches of the federal government, principally the Social Security Trust Fund.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has died at the age of 77 from complications following gall bladder surgery. He had been in intensive care at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA.

That was rule #3. And #6.

Oh I don't expect you to agree with this stuff Elvis, or especially appreciate it when she takes after the kind of stuff you approve of federal goverment doing. 

To reduce here speech to "palm notes" or even "birthday greetings" doesn't quite capture it.

She hit on all the key points for the audience she was in front of.

Is she capable of sustaining an arguement on those points?  I don't know.  Can she deconstruct the language of her oponents and beat them like a bongo drum in return? I haven't seen it yet, and frankly don't think she has the chops.   But, the speech was pretty darn good.   No question about that to me at all.