A potential terror sanctuary descends toward civil war. May 30, 2011 WSJ Yemen’s political crisis is taking a turn toward conflict and perhaps widespread civil war. Armed clashes between supporters of the embattled president and a rival tribal leader have spread across the country after the collapse of an agreement to end the stalemate and [...]

Even West Coast liberals are doubting the high-speed train to nowhere. May 30, 2011 WSJ Even Left Coasters are beginning to grumble about the Obama Administration’s ideological imperative for high-speed rail that defies all common sense. A couple of weeks ago California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a withering report calling the state’s 500-mile high-speed rail [...]

Why is a supposed ‘failed state’ prospering? May 31, 2011 WSJ By BRET STEPHENS Last week, gun battles between warring drug cartels in the central Mexican state of Michoacán lasted three days, brought down a police helicopter, caused a small flood of refugees, and took an as-yet undetermined toll in lives. It’s almost a surprise [...]

May 31, 2011 By John Hawkens Anyone who follows politics knows that the mainstream media has two sets of rules: one set for conservatives and another set for liberals. Conservatives spend most of their time correcting smears and trying to explain to the public what they really believe. Liberals, on the other hand, can count [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, May 31, 2011 DUBLIN, Ireland — Observing the start of Lord and Lady Obama’s (aka president and Michelle) grand European tour and the fawning press coverage, one might conclude they were imbued with royal blood. The normally reserved and thoughtful columnist for the London Times, William Rees-Mogg, gushed about [...]

By Dennis Prager (Archive) · Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Osama Bin Laden — a man whose purpose in life was to inflict death and suffering on as many innocent people as possible — was finally killed, and much of the Western world’s religious and secular elite have expressed moral objections to those who celebrated this [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, May 31, 2011 One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” describes his early experience listening to a sermon by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Among the things said in that sermon was that “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” Obama was [...]

May31, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: NATO Training Mission Afghanistan  Despite a Suicide Bomber, members of MTAG are left Undaunted Story by Lt. Russell Wolfkiel Lt. Jeremy Young works with the staff at the National Military Hospital (NMH) in Kabul. Young is a mentor for the Medical Training Advisory Group (MTAG), which provides guidance and expertise to [...]

Despite debt limit, they have no plan for substantive reform By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 6:50 p.m., Monday, May 30, 2011 Democrats have yet to put forth any plan to deal with America’s fiscal crisis. The national debt is at $14.3 trillion and growing daily; this year’s budget deficit alone is projected to [...]

May 31, 2011 NEW YORK — U.S. single-family home prices dropped into double-dip territory in March as the housing market remained bogged down by inventory and weak demand, a closely watched survey said on Tuesday. The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.2 percent in March from February on a seasonally adjusted basis, [...]