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War outcomes are crucial tests By Kara Rowland The Washington Times 8:46 p.m., Monday, August 30, 2010 As he winds down one war and escalates another, President Obama is struggling to win over the troops he’s leading as commander in chief – and military advocates say the real test will come as the nation approaches [...]
Both sides claim to be championing jobs growth By Patrice Hill The Washington Times 8:45 p.m., Monday, August 30, 2010 This year’s debate over extending President George W. Bush‘s tax cuts has turned into a brawl over which party is doing more for small businesses, with assertions that the health of the economy and thousands [...]
By Cal Thomas Published August 30, 2010 FoxNews.com The so-called mainstream media looked down at the Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial last weekend through predictable lenses set on their very long noses. What interested me, though, was the charge by speakers at the other rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., the [...]
By Michael Goodwin Published August 30, 2010 FoxNews.com Now he tells us. According to Mayor Bloomberg, the “yelling and screaming” about the Ground Zero mosque is just “people trying to stir things up to get publicity and trying to polarize people so they can get some votes.” He said that on the Jon Stewart show, [...]
By Ellen Ratner Published August 30, 2010 FoxNews.com As one of the almost million volunteers who went to help after Hurricane Katrina (about one out of every 230 adults in the United States) I have seen the devastation and recovery first hand. At first it seemed totally unbelievable, as if the country had moved from [...]
Published August 30, 2010 FoxNews.com As President Obama prepares to tie a bow on U.S. combat operations in Iraq, Congressional Budget Office numbers show that the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democratic-led Congress in 2009. According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook [...]
By the CNN Wire Staff August 31, 2010 8:29 a.m. EDT (CNN) — House Republican leader John Boehner will lay out a “prebuttal” ahead of President Barack Obama’s prime time speech on Iraq Tuesday night. Boehner will speak to about 10,000 people Tuesday afternoon at the 92nd American Legion National Convention in Milwaukee on Iraq [...]
August 30, 2010 6:24 PM by Brian Montopoli Glenn Beck said today that his “Restoring Honor” rally attracted “a minimum of 500,000 people” and complained that news outlets, including CBS News, badly underestimated the number of people who showed up for the event. “We’ll never know the exact number, but anyone with eyes can [...]
Major Iraq Withdrawal Reminder of Previous Milestones, Signs War Near Close By DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2010 The withdrawal of the last U.S. combat brigade from Iraq marked a major milestone in the seven year, five month conflict and has been hailed as a sign the U.S.-led war could soon be over. But hours [...]
Aug 30, 2010 ABC News’ Ann Compton reports: On the President’s first day back in the office from vacation, facing a deteriorating economic horizon, one Internet site is claiming he has returned to a newly redecorated Oval Office, complete with new carpets and drapes. A White House spokesman tells ABC News the administration will have [...]

