Thursday July 21,2011 By Nathan Rao THE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion. In a report by its governing body, the BBC Trust, the corporation was urged to focus less on opponents of the “majority consensus” [...]

July 21, 2011 Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials. A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued [...]

By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Published: July 21 President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner rushed Thursday to strike agreement on a far-reaching plan to reduce the national debt but faced a revolt from Democrats furious that the accord appeared to include no immediate provision to raise taxes. With 12 days left until [...]

Blasts thwart all electronics By Bill Gertz The Washington Times 8:12 p.m., Thursday, July 21, 2011 China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday. Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Center study [...]

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A conceptual breakthrough that has too few details. Juky 21, 2011 WSJ Grand bipartisan budget deals are one of the great come-ons of Washington politics. They rarely work out, and when they do they usually benefit only the political class. The latest offer from the so-called Gang of Six Senators might be an exception, if—and [...]

A metaphor unfit for a genius. July 21, 2011 WSJ Larry Summers is a brilliant guy, or so he’s told us. But the former Treasury Secretary, Harvard University president, and until this January the most senior White House economic aide sure can say some dumb things. Take his remarks yesterday comparing Republicans in Congress to [...]

The kind of agency the Harvard professor was for before she was against it. July 21, 2011 WSJ In the hyperbole department, does anyone do it better than Elizabeth Warren? Yesterday she told reporters that today’s House vote on a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reform bill is an effort to “try and kill this agency.” [...]

America added 44 million jobs in the 1980s and ’90s, when both parties showed they had learned from past mistakes. The lessons have been forgotten. July 21, 2011 WSJ By JOHN B. TAYLOR This month marks the two-year anniversary of the official start of the recovery from the 2007-09 recession. But it’s a recovery in [...]

Non-Obama voters want a presidential contender who can do hand-to-hand policy combat with the incumbent in 2012. July 21, 2011 WSJ By DANIEL HENNINGER Next to generalized distemper in Republican circles over their presidential candidates, the second most-offered opinion on the race is that people wish Paul Ryan were running. The Wisconsin congressman and House [...]