September 30, 2011 Rick Moran Apparently, the only kind of “green” that really matters to the Obama administration is the folding kind. Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard blog: Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan [...]

Posted 09/29/2011 06:33 PM ET   Solargate: Despite Solyndra, the administration shovels another billion out the door before the deadline as the lists of politically connected companies feeding at the public trough expands. Seems the sun also corrupts. Follow the money, it has been said, and you’ll find out all you need to know. Two [...]

Sep 30, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: RC-East, Bagram Media Center Task Force Thunderbird Clears Saygal Valley Story and photos by Army Spc. Tanangachi Mfuni  2nd Lt. James Brown of Okla., conducts a shura with elders in the Saygal Valley, during clearance op Brass Monkey, mid-Sept. Over a period of 5 gruelling days and nights in Sept., one [...]

Budgetary reform is needed to end the culture of spending increases By Emily Miller The Washington Times Thursday, September 29, 2011 Government has rigged the game so that it can always grow larger year after year. House conservatives are pushing legislation that would undo the built-in advantage that expansionists depend on when budget season rolls [...]

It’s a mistake to think Tea Party conservatives can’t win By Brett M. Decker The Washington Times Thursday, September 29, 2011 The whisper campaign has started already: Herman Cain can’t be elected president. It doesn’t matter that a poll this week by Rasmussen Reports shows Mr. Cain barely outside the margin of error in a [...]

Educators say Bush-era law leads to counterproductive ‘teaching to the test’  SEP 30, 2011 States are lining up to drop out of No Child Left Behind, the education initiative that was promoted as a historic achievement of the Bush administration. Since President Barack Obama announced last month that he would sign an executive order allowing [...]

By Jennifer Griffin & Justin Fishel Published September 29, 2011 FoxNews.com The next three months in Iraq will look like a veritable fire sale, as 45,000 U.S. forces prepare to leave by the Dec. 31 deadline. Rather than ship home valuable military hardware, incurring excessive shipping costs, the Pentagon is simply going to leave millions [...]

By Matt Liebowitz Published September 30, 2011 TechMediaNetwork Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don’t know is that come election day, hackers could be the ones whose votes have the biggest impact. Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a hack that, for about $26 and [...]

By Charles Riley @CNNMoney September 30, 2011: 7:10 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans — 90% — say that economic conditions remain poor. The number, reported Friday in a new CNN/ORC International Poll, is the highest of Barack [...]

Sep 29, 2011 (AP)  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – U.S. utilities and industries face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official said during the government’s first media tour of secretive defense labs intended to protect the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vulnerable infrastructure. [...]