it comes from closing loopholes and "dynamic scoring" (i.e. revenue increases due to economic growth), not raising tax rates. The catch, of course, is that tax cuts in the past have not led to appreciable revenue growth. President Obama -- who has said that a budget deal should include $1.6 trillion in new revenue... Cases of diabetes skyrocketed in states across the country between 1995 and 2010, and particularly in the South, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the number of diabetes cases diagnosed in that time period rose by 50 percent or more in 42 different states -- and by 100 percent or more in 18 states. And the diabetes epidemic disproportionately affects Americans who live in Southern and Appalachian states. The states that had the most serious jumps in diabetes cases over the 16-year period were Oklahoma (up 226 percent), Kentucky (up 158... CNN's Barbara Starr reported on the Situation Room today that a source tells her that in tomorrow's closed-door hearings on Capitol Hill, former CIA Director David Petraeus intends to tell lawmakers that he "knew" that the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was carried out by the Ansar al-Sharia militia group. He will also indicate that his initial briefing to Congress, in which he indicated that the attack was spurred by protests in Cairo against an anti-Islamic video, was both based on intelligence available at the time and later disproved. Starr... A new