By Phil Kerpen Published March 30, 2011 FoxNews.com President Obama’s speech Wednesday can’t obscure the fact that his is the most adamantly anti-energy administration since at least Jimmy Carter. Today, Obama touted a tiny number of permit approvals and said that proves his administration isn’t anti-energy. Give me a break. Between the lengthy, unlawful moratorium [...]

By the CNN Wire Staff March 31, 2011 7:41 a.m. EDT Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasing its nationwide monitoring of radiation as two states reported very low levels of radiation in milk. The agency said Wednesday it is boosting its monitoring of radiation in milk, precipitation, drinking water, and other [...]

By the CNN Wire Staff March 31, 2011 6:55 a.m. EDT Tokyo (CNN) — The levels of radiation in ocean waters off Japan’s embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant continue to skyrocket, the nation’s nuclear safety agency said Thursday, with no clear sense of what’s causing the spike or how to stop it. The amount of radioactive [...]

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 3/30/11 7:57 AM EDT President Barack Obama’s approval rating and prospects for reelection have plunged to all-time lows in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Half of the registered voters surveyed for the poll  think that the president does not deserve a second term in office, while 41 percent say he [...]

By ABBY PHILLIP | 03/30/11 4:17 PM Updated: 03/30/11 5:10 PM President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which [...]

James S. Robbins Published on March 30, 2011 Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest [...]

Mar 31, 2011 By Jayne O’Donnell U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than [...]

Chris McGreal in Brega guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 March 2011 20.36 BST If there’s an ammunition shortage, no one has told Khalif Saed. He was firing off a large machine gun welded to the back of a pick up truck, sending the contents of the heavy belt of bullets darting through the weapon and in to [...]

Mar 31, 2011 UK officials have encouraged other senior Libyan officials to abandon Col Gaddafi after his foreign minister fled to Britain and resigned. Moussa Koussa arrived in London on Wednesday saying he was no longer willing to represent the Libyan leader’s regime internationally. The Foreign Office said it wanted “those around Gaddafi to abandon [...]

March 30, 2011 6:00 PM Sources tell me that  budget negotiators on Capitol Hill have tentatively agreed on a deal that would involve at least $33 billion in spending cuts from this year’s budget.  That’s $23 billion dollars more than Democrats have previously agreed to in short-term continuing resolutions, and $28 billion less than Republicans [...]