By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, December 31, 2010 WASHINGTON — “Happy new year,” I said to the long-haul trucker as we arrived simultaneously at the door of a service station just off Interstate 70 near Frederick, Md. The temperature was in the teens; the wind was gusting at more than 30 miles per hour; [...]

Dec 2010 IBD Big Labor: A New York City councilman has exposed that labor bosses don’t need “On the Waterfront”-style corruption to kill innocents. Sometimes all it takes is a snowstorm. It is well over a half century since Elia Kazan revealed the dark underside of organized labor in his Oscar-winning film starring Marlon Brando [...]

Dec 30, 2010 IBD Environment: Ignoring both Congress and the voters, the Environmental Protection Agency starts the new year governing by decree with job-killing regulations. Take a deep breath, but if you exhale you’re a polluter. Cap-and-trade is dead, long live cap-and-trade in the form of regulations promulgated in the coming year by what George [...]

Dec 30, 2010 IBD Diplomacy: If there’s any doubt that U.S. kissing up to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has been a disaster, note the mutual expulsion of envoys Wednesday. Some diplomacy. This is the product of appeasement, not strength. It was quite a bright dawn two years ago when President Obama and his Secretary of State, [...]

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Dec 31, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: RC-East, Bagram Media Center TF Storm works to sweep Taliban influence from Baraki Barak Story and photos by Army Sgt. Cooper Cash, TF Patriot  ANSF soldiers move between buildings, while Soldiers assigned to Co C, 2nd Bn, 30th Inf Regt, 4th BCT, 10th Mtn Div, TF Storm, provide security on [...]

By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 31, 2010; 12:00 AM Before the infamous leak, the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy activists resided in a database so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it. It had a bureaucratic name, Net-Centric Diplomacy, and served an important mission: the rapid sharing of [...]

By JOHN M. BRODER Published: December 30, 2010 WASHINGTON — With the federal government set to regulate climate-altering gases from factories and power plants for the first time, the Obama administration and the new Congress are headed for a clash that carries substantial risks for both sides. While only the first phase of regulation takes [...]

By Alex Epstein Published December 29, 2010 FoxNews.com Every American consumes an average of three gallons of oil a day. Republicans and Democrats call this reliance on oil an “addiction”—an irrational, self-destructive habit that must be broken as soon as possible. This year’s BP oil spill disaster is only making the chorus to “end our [...]

By John Lott Published December 29, 2010 FoxNews.com If you like police officers having quotas for speeding tickets, you will love the Obama administration’s new health care regulations. Doctors are going to be paid for giving “end-of-life counseling,” one version of what was labeled as “death panels” during the health care debate this last spring. [...]