By Reza Kahlili Published July 25, 2011 FoxNews.com Despite the brutal crackdown by the Assad government, the ongoing protests in Syria have the Iranian leadership worried. The survival of the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, is essential to the dictatorial Islamic regime in Tehran because Syria provides the very gateway to Iran’s expansion of power in [...]

By Dr. Charles Dunn Published July 25, 2011 FoxNews.com In the budgetary and debt-ceiling game of political chicken, everyone is blinking. From the far left and far right almost everyone seems to be moving towards the middle.   Senators McConnell and Reid have proposed giving the President the authority to increase the debt ceiling in [...]

By John Lott Published July 26, 2011 FoxNews.com Failure to raise the Federal debt ceiling limit could “roil the financial markets and cause severe economic problems,” “cause profound damage to our country,” and have “dire consequences.”  So wrote the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and New York Times.  But the year was 1995, not 2011. [...]

By William La Jeunesse & Laura Prabucki Published July 25, 2011 FoxNews.com EXCLUSIVE: In the latest chapter of the gunrunning scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, federal officials won’t say how two suspects obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun.  Under current federal [...]

By Rev. John Rankin Published July 25, 2011 FoxNews.com If there is enough temerity, confidence and the freedom to think outside the box, the debt ceiling impasse can be resolved by Republicans in Congress with a one sentence proposal to President Obama: Congressional Republicans will agree to a 13-week clean extension of the debt ceiling, [...]

Published July 26, 2011 FoxNews.com House Republicans are preparing the steps for a vote on a debt ceiling package in advance of a Wednesday vote, after House Speaker John Boehner said President Obama’s “balanced approach” to deficit reduction means more spending and more taxes.  The president, speaking to Americans in a prime time address Monday [...]

July 25, 2011 House Speaker John Boehner accused President Obama Monday night of creating a “crisis atmosphere” in negotiations over increasing the debt limit, saying that if the president will simply sign House legislation to increase the debt limit that atmosphere “will simply disappear.” Boehner made his remarks following a prime time address by Mr. [...]

July 25, 2011 “Just remember, this is the United States of America. We write 80 million checks a month. There are millions and millions of Americans that depend on those checks coming on time,” Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told “FOX News Sunday.” “Not just people that supply our military, but people who get Social Security [...]

By Michael O’Brien – 07/25/11 08:56 AM ET One of the Senate’s liberal stalwarts suggested over the weekend that President Obama could benefit from a primary challenger over the next year.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, said it would be a “good idea” for Obama to face a primary challenger, [...]

July 26, 2011 With all of the spotlights on the high-stakes debt maneuverings by President Obama and Speaker John Boehner the last few days, few people noticed what Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” This is political treason 469 days before [...]