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Apr 27, 2011 WSJ Gas Cost: Is it just us, or do Obama’s policies sound suspiciously like that “Annie” song: Don’t worry about today’s killer pump prices, a bright energy sun will come out tomorrow. When gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon in 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama had a simple message for voters: There’s [...]
Apr 27, 2011 IBD Islamofascism: The media sold the Cairo riots as the birth pangs of “democracy” in the Mideast. Egyptians yearn for our style of “freedom,” we were told. But a new survey of their attitudes shreds that story line. According to the Pew Research Center, 89% of Egyptians say a post-Mubarak government “should [...]
Apr 27, 2011 IBD Public Opinion: Democrats have done their best to frighten the public away from Paul Ryan’s debt plan, but polls suggest their “Mediscare” campaign isn’t working out so well. A Gallup poll out this week contained an interesting finding — Ryan’s plan does better than President Obama’s debt-reduction plan with every age [...]
Apr 28, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: DVIDS Bayonet Soldiers Climb to New Heights in Ghormach Story and photos by Sgt. Jazz Burney Pfc. Charles Lacer, now a combat medic with 2nd Plt, C Btry, 1st Bn, 84th FAR, 170th IBCT, interacts with an Afghan boy during a foot patrol in Ghormach, April 14, 2011. Enemy combatants [...]
Federal figures shoot down left’s imaginary gun decline By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 8:18 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Gun grabbers love statistics, especially when they’re misleading. The latest report from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) would have us believe that Americans are lined up at the recycling center ready to toss out [...]
Some dead dissidents are more important than others By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 8:18 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2011 President Obama’s penchant to frame his actions in lofty terms places him in a position of having to explain why his moral compass is so selective. The contrasting U.S. policies toward Libya and Syria [...]
White House aversion to transparency undermines good government By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 8:18 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. For over two years, the president has resisted pressure to divulge this simple biographical information, which proves he’s a natural-born citizen. [...]
Abuse of Muslim sects, Christians By Ashish Kumar Sen The Washington Times Updated: 6:55 a.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2011 Egypt systematically oppresses Christians and minority Muslim sects, according to a congressional commission that placed a key U.S. ally in the Arab world on a blacklist of nations that routinely abuse religious liberties. Egypt, for [...]
By James P. Pinkerton Published April 27, 2011 FoxNews.com Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a five part series looking at Medicare by Fox News contributor James P. Pinkerton. In the previous installments of this series (click here for Part One , here for Part Two , here for Part Three [...]
By Andrea Tantaros Published April 27, 2011 FoxNews.com In a surprising move, the president of the United States took to the podium Wednesday to address an issue he and his staff had long thought was a done deal: to tout the existence of a birth certificate proving that he, in fact, was born in the [...]

