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Administration wants credit for halting theoretical illegals By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:25 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2011 President Obama made a run for the border yesterday to shore up his credentials on the immigration issue. Speaking from Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso, Mr. Obama defended his strategy as if it were [...]
The communists can’t keep 1.3 billion offline forever By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:25 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2011 When it comes to the Internet, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) would rather be safe than sorry. Beijing is taking new steps to make certain the social networking-fueled contagion of freedom that is sweeping [...]
By Milton R. Wolf & M.D. Published May 10, 2011 FoxNews.com When Barack Obama and I first met he had already become president and was furiously erecting the government-controlled health care system that bears his name and I had already begun a very public crusade to save America from it. Fate would never reunite our [...]
By Tom Schatz Published May 10, 2011 FoxNews.com It comes as no surprise that President Obama received a sizeable bump in public opinion after the announcement of the death of Usama bin Laden on May 1. A New York Times/CBS News poll shows an 11-point jump in approval to 57 percent (up from 46 percent [...]
Published May 10, 2011 FoxNews.com Republicans immediately fired back against President Obama after he claimed Tuesday that the U.S. border with Mexico has improved since he took office. Obama made the comment during his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as commander-in-chief, where he called on Congress to pass sweeping legislation that would remake the [...]
Published May 10, 2011 Associated Press WASHINGTON – Under pressure from more than five dozen House lawmakers, the Navy late Tuesday abruptly reversed its decision that would have allowed chaplains to perform same-sex unions if the Pentagon decides to recognize openly gay military service later this year. In a one-sentence memo obtained by The Associated [...]
By Ivan Watson and Mitra Mobasherat, CNN May 11, 2011 5:56 a.m. EDT (CNN) — The scheduled trial of two Americans accused of espionage in Iran was delayed again Wednesday after the suspects were not brought from jail to the courthouse, a Swiss diplomat told CNN. “I have been able to verify that the session [...]
By HUMA KHAN May 11, 2011 As budget talks beef up ahead of the quickly approaching debt ceiling deadline, both Republicans and Democrats are on the same page about the dollar figure of cuts, but remain wide apart — both politically and ideologically — on where those cuts should be centered. Republican lawmakers are increasingly [...]
By SCOTT WONG | 5/10/11 7:09 PM EDT The world will not get to see the photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, but several senators have been invited to. And Sen. Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee who also sits on the Armed Services panel, will be one of the senators accepting [...]
By JIM SCIUTTO (@jimsciuttoABC) and BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan May 10, 2011 One of Osama bin Laden’s sons went missing in the midst of the Navy SEAL raid that took the life of the al Qaeda leader more than a week ago, Pakistani security officials told ABC News today. The officials said bin Laden’s [...]

