June 27, 2011 By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY The Obama administration is floating the idea of a requiring all cars and light trucks to get up to 56.2 miles a gallon by 2025, a level that only a couple of today’s cars can reach. Already, Washington’s auto lobby is warning of dire consequences in terms [...]

June 27, 2011 IBD  View Enlarged Image Debt: The Democrats’ latest tactic to impose massive tax hikes is to argue that we need a “balanced approach” to debt-reduction. Don’t buy it. Our debt crisis is entirely the result of too much spending, not too little taxing. The new favorite phrase among Democrats these days is: “balanced approach.” [...]

June 27, 2011 IBD Gun Control: Chicago’s new police superintendent blames Alaska’s ex-governor for inner-city gun violence and crime, and says gun-rights advocates are racist. Disarming victims doesn’t prevent crime, sir. Speaking to the choir, literally, about gun control, Garry McCarthy, former police chief of Newark, N.J., told an audience at St. Sabina Church in [...]

June 27, 2011 IBD Politics: Amid the ObamaCare fiasco, the latest is that physicians will be subject to streams of grubby government spies checking up on their Medicare patient intake. This isn’t Eurosocialist care anymore. This is the Soviet Union. In a front-page news story, the New York Times reported Monday that Obama administration officials [...]

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June 8, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: RC-East, Bagram Media Center Afghan Females and FET bond over English class   Story and photos by Army Spc. Hillary Rustine, TF Bronco    Pvt. Erin Murphy, a combat medic assigned to 3rd BSTB, TF Bayonet, 3rd BCT, 25th ID, TF Bronco, tutors local girls, ranging in age from 12- to [...]

Phony humanitarians seek to instigate violence with Israel By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:51 p.m., Monday, June 27, 2011 Anti-Israel activists are launching a fresh high-seas publicity stunt. The ships of Freedom Flotilla II will set sail sometime this week to commemorate the May 2010 Gaza blockade run, which ended in violence. Nine [...]

Sun’s coming quietude burns global warmists By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:50 p.m., Monday, June 27, 2011 Reports of imminent climatic catastrophes are turning out to be rather anticlimactic. That’s because rather than heating up to life-threatening levels, new scientific findings indicate it’s more likely the Earth will cool in coming years. That’s [...]

America’s fiscal crisis requires a constitutional solution By Emily Miller The Washington Times 7:50 p.m., Monday, June 27, 2011 As President Obama’s erstwhile chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once observed, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” The sentiment captured a White House that saw troubling times as a lever to move big-spending, [...]

Issues mirror Capitol Hill’s By Andrea Billups The Washington Times 8:07 p.m., Monday, June 27, 2011 Cut funding for state nursing homes or chop money for local police departments? Slice budgets for municipalities or halt key construction projects? These are the fiscal quandaries about to hit home in Minnesota, where a deepening budget impasse between [...]