By Colbert I. King Saturday, November 28, 2009   The selection of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for President Obama’s announcement of his new Afghanistan war strategy is media manipulation worthy of Michael Deaver, the legendary image protector of Ronald Reagan. What better setting than an audience of military cadets to project [...]

Published: November 28, 2009 All roads into and out of the recession run through the housing market. During the summer, that road seemed to be heading toward recovery. These days, it seems to be headed back toward hard times. A reversal would have big implications for the economy and, by extension, the policies now being [...]

By LANDON THOMAS Jr.   Published: November 27, 2009 Of the many economies that gorged on debt in the boom years, Dubai stood out. In the space of a few years the emirate’s investment arm, Dubai World, racked up $59 billion in debt, borrowing to build lavish developments like a giant island shaped like a [...]

Saturday, November 28, 2009  TEHRAN, Iran —  Iran’s parliament may consider withdrawing the country from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in response to a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog censuring Tehran over its nuclear program, a hardline lawmaker said Saturday. …. Karamirad does not speak for the government but his statements reflect hardline thinking that the [...]

Nov 28, 2009 FOX News An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what “appears to be an act of terrorism” caused by a chemical bomb, officials said. The head of the Russian Federal Security Service told the country’s news [...]

By Ruben Navarrette Jr., Special to CNN November 27, 2009 8:56 a.m. EST Editor’s note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to CNN.com. Read his column here San Diego, California (CNN) — When I speak to college students, I always [...]

Nov 26, 2009 “We feel at home here and among our brothers … we’re going to be together until the end,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a visit to Latin America on Wednesday. Both leaders roundly denounced US “imperialism,” and Chavez also called Israel “a murderous arm of the [...]

by Publius On September 29th, when ACORN is under full public scrutiny in the aftermath of the undercover video sting, it announced with great fanfare that it was launching a thorough and independent  review of its operations. It named Scott Harshbarger, former Massachusetts Attorney General, to head up this review. Mr. Harshbarger promised to release [...]

by Publius Have you heard the one about the pimp, prostitute, politician and the community organizer?  Well, thanks to San Diego private investigator Derrick Roach, Californians are not laughing at what is turning into a political nightmare for California Attorney General Jerry Brown and ACORN.  On Tuesday, November 24, Attorney General Brown appeared on KABC’s [...]

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 27, 2009 04:34 PM A top House Republican today blasted a ruling by the Justice Department that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money. Republicans have [...]