Posted 01/28/2010 07:01 PM ET Environment: Global warming alarmists might have thought that after the latest scandal things couldn’t get any hotter for them. But the heat keeps coming. The latest wave is news that climate scientists broke the law. When the e-mail scandal broke last fall, it quickly became clear that the scientists at [...]

Posted 01/28/2010 07:01 PM ET Joint Session: Wednesday night’s State of the Union address to Congress may have made history. When have senators and congressmen ever before been unable to keep from laughing at — not with — a president? At about the 44-minute mark in President Obama’s address to Congress came a proposal for [...]

Jan 28, 2010 Afghanistan Stories:   CJTF 82 Public Affairs, Bagram Media Center     Eyes on Kunar province   By Army Spc. Albert Kelley   KUNAR PROVINCE – Spc. Thomas Hanna, a team leader with 2nd plt, HHC, 2nd Bn, 503rd PIR, 173rd Abn BCT, walks patrol during an area assessment near the Marawara [...]

That’s what we got for almost a trillion in stimulus spending Jan 29, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The president is full of it when he talks about creating or saving jobs. During his State of the Union address Wednesday night, he said, “Now, because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million [...]

Jan 29, 2010 By Wesley Pruden OPINION/ANALYSIS: So it’s full speed ahead, even if nobody knows where we’re going. We can console ourselves that if we’re lucky we might not get there. That’s the main point of President Obama’s eagerly awaited assessment of the State of the Union. He said, as all presidents do, that [...]

Hill GOP skeptical of outreach Jan 29, 2010 By Stephen Dinan Republican lawmakers searched Thursday for ways to support President Obama, but said his calls for bipartisanship fell flat amidst his lecturing tone and the repeated barbs he aimed at them during his State of the Union address Wednesday night. The stark speech seemed to [...]

Priority for now is focusing on economy, jobs Jan 29, 2010 By Jennifer Haberkorn Democratic leaders on Thursday shelved plans to push through a major health care overhaul, casting aside President Obama’s top legislative goal, which has bedeviled congressional Democrats for more than a year. Senate Democrats put a positive spin on it, arguing that [...]

  By Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 29, 2010   A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats remained in disarray Thursday about how to move forward, with at least some pointing at the White House as the cause [...]

By PAUL KRUGMAN   Published: January 28, 2010 Last week, the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, published an acerbic essay about the difference between true deficit hawks and showy “deficit peacocks.” You can identify deficit peacocks, readers were told, by the way they pretend that our [...]

Jan 28, 2010 By Alan Boyle Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they’ll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion sometime this year. The tests involved blasting a cylinder the size of a pencil eraser, known as a “hohlraum,” with 192 laser beams and seeing whether researchers could tweak the energy to [...]