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Nov 29, 2010 IBD National Security: A solitary man armed only with computer equipment is once again humiliating the mighty U.S. government, and endangering American lives — while the Obama administration, typically, dithers. The Bible assures us “there is not anything secret that shall not be made manifest, nor hid that shall not be known [...]
By SCOTT S. POWELL Posted 11/29/2010 06:13 PM ET Across America, citizens distrust Washington policymakers because their legislative bills are unreadable and their stated programs often mask hidden agendas. Early this month Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke rolled out a second installment of a monetary policy he called “quantitative easing” — dubbed QE2 — for the [...]
Nov 29, 2010 IBD War On Terror: Three troubling developments in Pakistan call into question the effectiveness of the administration’s drone-centered strategy there. It may be time to rethink it. To be sure, the graveyard of “No. 3″ al-Qaida figures eliminated by drones is deep. But many of these “kills” have turned out to be [...]
Nov 29, 2010 IBD Radicalism: A group of academics wants to force rationing in developed countries to turn back what they see as the carbon threat. How does this differ from a socialist group demanding the seizure of private property? Negotiators from 192 nations will be in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun through Dec. [...]
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Nov 30, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: Blackanthem Military News Kapisa PRT celebrates Thanksgiving By 2nd Lt. Ashley Skillman French Army Brig. Gen. Jean-Francois Hogard, comm. gen. for TF La Fayette, gets turkey placed on his plate during a Thanksgivings celebration for U.S. personnel, Nov. 24. Members of Kapisa PRT make up a large portion of [...]
Disclosures reiterate how dangerous the world is By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, November 29, 2010 The reaction in some quarters to the Wiki-Leaks release of classified State Department cables has been a resounding “told you so.” The most important expose of this sordid ordeal is the Obama administration‘s persistent failure to deal [...]
Instead of protecting the border, DHS protects Hollywood By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, November 29, 2010 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has extended the jurisdiction of her sprawling department to the Internet. The “Homeland Security Investigations” division of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized control of 82 websites last week. Considering the [...]
Consumer agency endangers employers with rumor and innuendo By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, November 29, 2010 The Consumer Product Safety Commission finalized a new rule Nov. 24 that abandons both consumers and safety. Trial lawyers and unscrupulous business competitors, though, made out like bandits. American manufacturers and tradesmen are the ones left [...]
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ Published: November 30, 2010 MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev, expressing continued wariness over the prospect of military cooperation with his country’s former Cold War adversaries, warned on Tuesday that a failure by Russia and the West to reach an agreement on missile defense could provoke a new arms race. The remarks, [...]

