Sep 29, 2011 Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to reports. The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went into the Military Hospital in Caracas on Tuesday morning, the report on the newspaper’s website said, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the [...]

Sep 29, 2011 By Mark Hosenball REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum. U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence agencies have recently produced classified papers examining the strength, role [...]

The Department of Energy keeps shoveling out taxpayer money. Sep 29, 2011 WSJ If you thought the $535 million Solyndra scandal had chastened the fearless venture capitalists of the Obama Administration, think again. The Department of Energy shovelled out $1.1 billion in new loan guarantees to solar projects in Nevada and Arizona Wednesday, and more [...]

Indicting oil and gas companies but giving wind turbines a pass. Sep 29, 2011 WSJ The Obama Administration’s hostility to oil and gas exploration is well known, but last week it took an especially fowl turn. The U.S. Attorney for North Dakota hauled seven oil and natural gas companies into federal court for killing 28 [...]

What does Mitt Romney think of this disturbing new trend? Sep 28, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO The left has had it with democracy, the New York Times reports: From South Asia to the heartland of Europe and now even to Wall Street, these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and [...]

Sep 29, 2011 Victor Davis Hanson   When President Obama’s polls hit 40 percent approval, he fumed at “billionaires and millionaires,” “fat cat bankers” and “corporate jet owners.” In his sloppy targeting, Obama doesn’t care much that a billionaire has 1,000 times more than a millionaire — or that his new tax proposals will take [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Thursday, September 29, 2011 There’s an old curse that begs, “O that mine enemy would write a book.” That’s a desire getting a big play in the debates between Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who are both trashing my Dad Ronald Reagan’s so-called “11th Commandment,” that Republicans must [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Thursday, September 29, 2011 When Obama insists that tax hikes will be offset by future spending cuts, run — don’t walk! — and hang on to your wallets. When it comes to keeping their promises, politicians are notoriously untrustworthy. Back in the 70s, Nixon and Kissinger agreed to withdraw from [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, September 29, 2011 WASHINGTON — “If two people always agree,” says Ben Bernanke, “one of them is redundant.” So, imagine what the Federal Reserve chairman thinks of Rep. Barney Frank’s legislation designed to dampen dissent within the Fed. Fond of diversity in everything but thought, a certain kind of [...]

By R. Emmett Tyrrell (Archive) · Thursday, September 29, 2011 WASHINGTON — One of the causes that has brought the great and worthy movement of Liberalism to its present state of decrepitude has been remarked upon in this column many times before: Liberalism always goes too far. Even in the case of a noble impulse, [...]