CBS News Exclusive: Taliban Snipers Slow Progress of U.S.Troops Feb 19, 2010 By Mandy Clark (CBS)  In Afghanistan, urban warfare is waged from a well-disguised bunker hidden behind family homes. Taliban snipers hidden here had a clear shot at advancing U.S. Marines. “Pretty extensive. On D-day, when we came in, Kilo company had to deal [...]

New study provides insight into 141+ years of political hijinks Feb 19, 2010 Cook County has been a “dark pool of political corruption” for more than a century, a new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago says. Nearly 150 employees, politicians and contractors in the nation’s second-largest county have been convicted on corruption [...]

Feb 19, 2010 By Donna Smith Donna Smith – Fri Feb 19, 6:33 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday. The administration’s [...]

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For one thing, cut the remaining ‘stimulus’ spending. FEB 18, 2010 By MARTIN FELDSTEIN President Obama declared in his budget message last month that “it’s time to live within our means” and to stop “borrowing against our children’s future.” Unfortunately, his budget would move us away from that goal by adding trillions of dollars to [...]

FEB 19, 2010 By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON LAS VEGAS—President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans Friday to provide an additional $1.5 billion to a state-assistance program for homeowners worst hit by the downturn in U.S. housing values. Barack Obama The program, which Mr. Obama will announce in Las Vegas, is for states where the average [...]

by Steve Elliott on February 12, 2010 After looking over the Obama budget, I think I can see the end of America. …Over $2 trillion in tax increases over the decade(1) …Rapid acceleration of the national debt from a staggering $7.7 trillion today to an incomprehensible $18.57 trillion in 10 years (2) …Government takeover of [...]

By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Friday, February 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — The left has a political interest in defining the broad backlash against expanded government as identical to the worst elements of the Tea Party movement — birthers and Birchers, militias and nativists, racists and conspiracy theorists, acolytes of Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and Lyndon [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, February 19, 2010 Remember that great scene from the Oscar-robbed classic “The Blues Brothers”? Jake and Elwood (John Belushi and Dan Akroyd) are finally cornered by Jake’s former fiancée (Carrie Fisher). Jake left her at the altar with 300 guests and the best Romanian caterers in the state waiting. [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, February 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation [...]