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Mar 30, 2011 IBD Energy Policy: President Obama wants to cut oil imports by a third after telling Brazil he wants to be their best customer. Cellulosic ethanol won’t cut it, and neither will talking out of both sides of your teleprompter. In a Georgetown University address that echoed President Jimmy Carter’s “moral equivalent of [...]
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Mar 31, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: RC-East, Bagram Media Center Afghan, coalition forces join in New Year celebration Written by AF 1st Lt. Sybil Taunton, Paktya PRT Paktya Gov. Hamdard meets with Lt. Col. Steven Boesen, cmdr. of the 1st Bn, 168th Inf Regt, TF Lethal, at FOB Gardez, during an Afghan New Year celebration, [...]
Democratic leaders’ saucy strategy to shut down the government By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:06 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 If only there were an app for Sen. Charles E. Schumer’s smartphone that would tell him when there’s a reporter on the line waiting to trap him. The New York Democrat was caught [...]
Obama’s ‘new’ energy plan is a low-octane solution By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:06 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 President Obama’s promise Wednesday to do something about rising gas prices was drowned out by the giant sucking sound of American dollars being funneled into OPEC pockets. Not that many expected his plan to [...]
Toppling Arab governments feeds Islamist revolution By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:06 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 President Obama’s advisers give him credit for energizing the Arab revolts and saving the Libyan rebels. For al Qaeda’s leadership, this is all a gift from Allah. Al Qaeda central’s views are detailed in the latest [...]
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Wednesday, March 30, 9:51 PM Military leaders and President Obama’s civilian advisers are girding for battle over the size and pace of the planned pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this summer, with the military seeking to limit a reduction in combat forces and the White House pressing for a withdrawal substantial [...]
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT Published: March 30, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials. While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground [...]
By Michael Goodwin Published March 31, 2011 New York Post If you watched President Obama’s speech on Libya and are still confused, you are not crazy or alone. The speech wandered around the globe and through history before ending in a maddening contradiction. Consider the opposing reactions of two very smart conservatives. Robert Kagan, writing [...]
By Thomas Pyle Published March 30, 2011 FoxNews.com With the president’s address on energy security today as he continues to take flak for his energy policies and fuel prices creep toward $4 a gallon, his supporters have stepped up efforts to defend the president in anticipation of the 2012 election cycle. Their tactic is straight [...]

