Sept 28, 2009 Energy: An amazing number of oil finds have been made this year, including the biggest in California in 35 years. If the world is running out of oil, why do we keep finding more of it? The mantra of the anti-drilling crowd has been that oil companies like to sit on their [...]

Sept 28, 2009 WMD: Members of the U.N. Security Council, worried about nuclear proliferation, have signed a new agreement to end the spread of nukes. Unfortunately, their deal’s not worth the paper it’s written on. News in recent weeks on the nuclear proliferation front has been alarming, to say the least. Everyone knows North Korea [...]

Sept 28, 2009 By IBD Iran: Defense Secretary Robert Gates says “a pretty rich list” of sanctions awaits the soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Islamofascists in Tehran. But everything on his menu, unfortunately, is laughably mild. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the New York Times, told dinner guests in New York City last week that he would “warmly [...]

September 29, 2009   DoD Imagery, Afghanistan   Not Many … but Much: ANGLICO Marines Help U.K. Hold Northern Post   Story by Cpl. Aaron Rooks   Staff Sgt. Robert Jernigan, team leader, Firepower Control Team Alpha (FCT-A), 1st Bde Plt, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Co (ANGLICO), MEB-A, motions for his fellow Marines to [...]

Device ‘fee’ punishes cost control and innovation Sept 29, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, made it clear last week that he has no plans to tax Q-tips, Band-Aids and toothbrushes. Such an announcement is a Washington cliche – literally true but functionally false. A $4 billion annual [...]

Upper-income seniors protected by bipartisan majority Sept 29, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES House lawmakers want to freeze a small increase in Medicare premiums for physicians’ services next year. Once again, Congress is choosing to ignore the massive federal entitlement’s dire fiscal picture for fear of angering older voters. This move only digs Medicare into [...]

What if Kevin Jennings were a Republican? Sept 29, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES When Republican Rep. Mark Foley was caught chasing congressional pages, he got exactly what was coming to him. In a blizzard of coverage (1,400 stories, according to Google news), Mr. Foley’s creepy behavior was examined from every possible angle. Nobody wanted [...]

  By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Sen. Thad Cochran’s most recent reelection campaign collected more than $10,000 from University of Southern Mississippi professors and staff members, including three who work at the school’s center for research on polymers. To a defense spending bill slated to be on the [...]

  By Pamela Constable Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, September 29, 2009   ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As American troops move deeper into southern Afghanistan to fight Taliban insurgents, U.S. officials are expressing new concerns about the role of fugitive Taliban leader Mohammad Omar and his council of lieutenants, who reportedly plan and launch cross-border strikes [...]

By DAVID BROOKS   Published: September 28, 2009 Centuries ago, historians came up with a classic theory to explain the rise and decline of nations. The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic. Toughness and energy lead to wealth and power. Wealth and power lead to affluence and luxury. Affluence and luxury [...]