Posted 07/29/2010 06:33 PM ET President Obama signs the New START nuclear-arms treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague last April. A new report says Russia… View Enlarged Image National Security: Think Moscow will violate the New START arms limitation treaty? A just-issued report says it never obeyed the first one. The motto of the Obama administration [...]

Posted 07/29/2010 06:58 PM ET Finance Reform: HUD is at the heart of the subprime scandal, yet it’s empowered as never before by FinReg. It’ll manage various slush funds underwriting more Acorn-type housing activism. Housing and Urban Development is one of two federal agencies regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with HUD supervising the mortgage [...]

Posted 07/29/2010 06:58 PM ET Health Care: A 2,000-page government takeover of the health system was just enacted, but now congressional Democrats want even more government. The “public option” is rising from the grave. When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delighted the liberal Netroots Nation convention in Las Vegas on Saturday by telling them, “We’re [...]

Posted 07/29/2010 06:58 PM ET Economy: Speaking to the Urban League on Thursday, the president had a great chance to tout his accomplishments. Sadly, when it came to the economy, he had to stretch the truth quite a bit just to say anything. President Obama’s main topic in speaking to the big city representatives in [...]

July 30, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES:   DVIDS   The challenges our female troops facePhotos by Sgt. Heidi Agostini     COP Bandini – Lance Cpl. Kathryn Mannion, a member of the female engagement team, 3rd Bn, 6th Marine Regt, washes her face in the early morning hours, July 13. The Marines of northern Marjah try [...]

Wind coverage would blow a hole in the budget By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – The Washington Times 6:03 p.m., Thursday, July 29, 2010 Some congressional Democrats might actually be having second thoughts about creating new spending programs. Last week, the House demonstrated unusual restraint in declining to put taxpayers on the hook for yet another [...]

Immigration staffers cite tools available without reform By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times 8:39 p.m., Thursday, July 29, 2010 With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants – what a draft government memo said could be “a non-legislative version of [...]

  By Hank Paulson Friday, July 30, 2010   The financial reform bill enacted last week is a significant step toward a much-needed modernization of our regulatory structure. It will provide tools to help mitigate and manage the next financial crisis. But the job remains unfinished until Congress addresses the housing policies that fueled the [...]

By John Lott Published July 29, 2010 FoxNews.com Arizona’s immigration law supposedly “would impose a ‘distinct, unusual and extraordinary’ burden on legal resident aliens that only the federal government has the authority to impose.” So asserted Federal District Judge Susan Bolton in her injunction of the new Arizona immigration law on Wednesday. “Given the large [...]

By James P. Pinkerton Published July 29, 2010 FoxNews.com Nearly nine years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, how are we doing at national security and homeland security? Short answer: Not well. And as we saw Wednesday in the case of U.S. v. Arizona, the Obama administration seems determined to be on the wrong [...]