Dec 29, 2010 IBD Politics: The Senate Majority Leader has a plan to deal with Republican electoral success. When you lose the game, you simply change the rules. When you only have 53 votes, you lower the bar to 51. When Harry Reid was hawking his book “The Good Fight” on C-Span’s “Book Notes” in [...]

Dec 29, 2010 IBD Subprime Scandal: “All the Devils Are Here” has been billed as the definitive book on the cause of the financial crisis. But it follows the same anti-market narrative as other books on the subject. Same story, different title. Typical for this genre, it demonizes bankers and absolves government officials. The “devils” [...]

Dec 29, 2010 IBD Labor: New York City’s lethal non-response to this week’s blizzard will deflate Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plans for a vanity presidential candidacy, as it should. But in casting blame, look for the union label. Two deaths were blamed on inadequate response by city services to this week’s landmark snowstorm. A 75-year-old Queens [...]

Dec 29, 2010 IBD Economy: Heading into the new year, there’s plenty of optimism about the stock market rising, corporate profits recovering and companies hiring. There’s just one problem on that last jobs item: Many will be overseas. On those rare occasions when it’s not demonizing businesses as bastions of corporate greed, the White House [...]

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Dec 30, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: Blackanthem Military News Kunar PRT conducts Asadabad foot patrol Photos by AF 1st Lt. Nicholas Mercurio, KRT  KUNAR – Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Victor Ibarra, Kunar PRT medic, converses with an Afghan boy during a foot patrol through downtown Asadabad, Dec. 13. Foot patrols are the preferred method of [...]

Is the FDA making decisions based on cost, not effectiveness? By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Breast-cancer patients are charging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with moving toward Obamacare-style rationing of useful treatments. Congressional overseers should monitor how the FDA handles an appeal of its ruling to disapprove the [...]

Watering down language doesn’t change the facts By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Are “illegal aliens” simply misunderstood “undocumented immigrants?” The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Diversity Committee believes so, and it’s engaged in a campaign to “inform and sensitize journalists as to the best language to use when writing [...]

Spendthrift mayors can no longer count on Washington bailouts By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, December 29, 2010 When Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, takes the gavel from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi next week, the California Democrat won’t be the new year‘s biggest loser. That dubious honor falls on America’s big-spending big-city [...]

By ERIC SCHMITT Published: December 29, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed. The issue came up in a State Department report [...]