It’s no coincidence that the Internet, a sanctuary of governmental restraint, has spawned such unparalleled innovation. Will the Obama administration’s plans for net neutrality bring it to a screeching halt? Sept 24, 2009 By Ryan Radia The federal government may gain broad new powers to regulate Internet providers next month if Federal Communications Commission Chairman [...]

This Is Iran’s Answer To The Obama Peace Offensive Sept 25, 2009 By Vistor Davis Hanson (National Review Online)  Where to begin with the “surprise” announcement of a second, previously undisclosed “nuclear facility?” Some thoughts: (1) This is Iran’s answer to the Obama video peace offensive. This summer we kept quiet while thousands went into [...]

Sept 25, 2009 By ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats are considering a tax on high-cost insurance plans to help pay for health care overhaul that tops President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday the tax is “under consideration” as Democrats search for consensus within their [...]

By Heidi Przybyla Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — John Podesta compared the nation’s current budget crisis to the situation former President Bill Clinton faced in 1993 and said some form of a value-added tax is “more plausible today than it ever has been.” “There’s going to have to be revenue in this budget,” said Podesta, Clinton’s [...]

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation Sept 25, 2009 By Carrie Budoff Brown Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and [...]

Sept 25, 2009 By FABIOLA SANCHEZ PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez’s government said Friday. Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations “indicate [...]

Senior US official says secret facility is right size to make ‘bomb or two a year’ Sept 26, 2009 By David Usborne and Andrew Grice The crisis in relations with Iran escalated ominously yesterday after the leaders of the US, Britain and France accused the regime in Tehran of operating a secret uranium enrichment facility [...]

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September 25, 2009   by Diana West There are many reasons to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, and all of them are contained within his 66-page “assessment” of the war in Afghanistan. The document is fascinating, just as the work of zealots is always fascinating. As a high priest of the politically correct orthodoxy, McChrystal [...]

September 25, 2009   by Pat Buchanan While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, “death panels,” the “public option” and racism’s role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. What happens in Afghanistan might. Gen. Stanley McChrystal [...]