Defenders call it buffer for courts By Andrea Billups The Washington Times Monday, August 22, 2011 DETROIT — A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts – one that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law – has reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims. The Michigan [...]

By Christian Whiton Published August 22, 2011 FoxNews.com The Libyan Civil War appears to be over. The good guys won. Despite the risks involved in any revolution, the future of Libya is brighter than it has been in decades. Furthermore, far more has changed than is yet appreciated. This war and the broader Arab Spring [...]

By Dan Gainor Published August 19, 2011 FoxNews.com What is $150 billion really worth? It’s enough to buy each and every NFL franchise about five times. Or it could pay the median household income more than 3 million times over in the United States. It could even pay for 500 days of the war in [...]

By Pete Griffin Published August 22, 2011 FoxNews.com A federal stimulus grant of nearly $500,000 to grow trees and stimulate the economy in Nevada yielded a whopping 1.72 jobs, according to government statistics.  In 2009, the U.S. Forest Service awarded $490,000 of stimulus money to Nevada’s Clark County Urban Forestry Revitalization Project, aimed at revitalizing [...]

Published August 22, 2011 FoxNews.com A national Tea Party group urged Democrats to adhere to their own calls for civility after Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters told a restless crowd over the weekend that the “Tea Party can go straight to hell.” Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, who lead the Tea Party Patriots, suggested President [...]

Published August 22, 2011 Associated Press NEW YORK –  The president of Standard & Poor’s is stepping down, an announcement coming only weeks after the rating agency’s unprecedented move to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating. The McGraw-Hill Cos., the parent of S&P, said late Monday that Deven Sharma will be replaced [...]

By Lee Ross Published August 23, 2011 FoxNews.com LOS ANGELES — California voters are in for quite a surprise when they head to the polls in 2012: competitive congressional elections and possibly unfamiliar names on the ballot. A new electoral map drawn up by a panel of ordinary citizens and criticized as creating too many [...]

By Larry Shaughnessy,, CNN Pentagon Producer August 23, 2011 5:39 a.m. EDT Washington (CNN) — As the rebels in Libya push closer to ending the regime of embattled Col. Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. warplanes have been increasing their attacks on government positions as part of the NATO campaign. New numbers released by the Pentagon on Monday [...]

Aug 23, 2011 (CBS/AP)  CAIRO – Libya’s rebels began as a disparate group of former government insiders, Western-leaning intellectuals, businessmen and even a smattering of ex-Islamist militants. But they were united by one goal: to unseat Muammar Qaddafi.  They won international recognition by forging a leadership council that espoused democracy. With Qaddafi’s regime on its [...]

By SUSANNA KIM Aug. 23, 2011 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s war chest might have been large enough at one point to support fighting against rebel forces, but how much remains and could be extracted by Libya’s new Transitional National Council remains to be seen. Gadhafi and his family have an estimated $33 billion and $60 [...]