Sept 30, 2009 By Ed Lasky Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own — when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with [...]

Sept 30, 2009 Note: As you view this article, note the video which sinks a power plant into the ground and replaces it with a field of windmills.  Time and time again science has shown that we cannot generate enough energy by using any of the proposed green technologies to replace the current tech in [...]

Sept 29, 2009 Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain’s green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American “climate illiterates” don’t follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and [...]

Sept 29, 2009 Health Care: The rejection of the Democrats’ attempt at reform includes a particular distaste for the public option. Yet the Democrats likely won’t give up on it. Why? They know something bigger’s at stake. If Congress didn’t learn during the August recess that the public doesn’t care for the Democrats’ scheme to [...]

Mad men of 1939, 2009 Sept 30, 2009 By Richard W. Rahn Nineteen thirty-nine was not a good year. World War II started, and much of the world was still in the Depression. The leaders of too many countries were either despots or naive and weak. And 2009 has not been a good year, considering [...]

Generals fret while president plays a round Sept 30, 2009 By Monica Crowley President Obama has been taking time out of his busy schedule of stalling on Afghanistan to spend hours on the golf course each Sunday. Will somebody please inform him that if he still wants to behave as a community organizer with loads [...]

Iran seeks power, not security Sept 30, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Talks set to open Thursday between Iran and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (the G5+1) are bound to fail. All the earnest good faith in the world won’t change the character of the Iranian regime. The Iranian leadership [...]

Infiltration of Network Is a Factor as Administration Debates Afghanistan Policy By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, September 30, 2009 U.S. and international intelligence officials say that improved recruitment of spies inside the al-Qaeda network, along with increased use of targeted airstrikes and enhanced assistance from cooperative governments, has significantly [...]

By GARY MILHOLLIN and VALERIE LINCY   Published: September 29, 2009 Washington THE disclosure of Iran’s secret nuclear plant has changed the way the West must negotiate with Tehran. While worrisome enough on its own, the plant at Qum may well be the first peek at something far worse: a planned, or even partly completed, [...]

By TODD WOODY   Published: September 29, 2009 AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. — In a rural corner of Nevada reeling from the recession, a bit of salvation seemed to arrive last year. A German developer, Solar Millennium, announced plans to build two large solar farms here that would harness the sun to generate electricity, creating hundreds [...]