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Posted 10/27/2011 06:55 PM ET Scandal: A Department of Justice withholding Fast and Furious gun-running information from Congress proposes shredding the Freedom of Information Act by being able to deny certain documents even exist. The most transparent administration in history has struck another blow for opaqueness with a proposed new federal regulation expanding its [...]
Posted 10/27/2011 06:55 PM ET Crisis: The European Union’s deal to halve Greece’s debt and double its own bailout fund to $1.4 trillion is being hailed as the salvation of Europe’s economy and the euro. In fact, they’ve just kicked the can down the road. We hate to sound a gloomy note as stocks [...]
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Oct 28, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: DVIDS Marines Enjoy Pace of Nawa District’s Unique Countryside Story and photos by Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde Nev. native LCpl. Daniel Wilson, a fireteam leader with Charlie Co, 1st Bn, 9th Marine Regt, patrols down a street in Khalaj village, Helmand prov. The Marines and AUP conduct regular partnered patrols [...]
Obama scares women and liberals into the gun store By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, October 27, 2011 Gun ownership is on the rise in some surprising places. As much as President Obama would have us believe that only small-town yokels “cling to guns or religion,” a Gallup poll released Wednesday suggests many [...]
Regulatory reform is key to unleashing economic growth By Emily Miller The Washington Times Thursday, October 27, 2011 The Obama administration’s red tape is strangling business and dragging down economic growth. Members of both parties on Capitol Hill are getting an earful from constituents about the need to give local businesses a breather. Now a [...]
State Department bequeaths words of ‘The One’ to a waiting world By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, October 27, 2011 The administration is downplaying the revelation that the State Department blew $70,000 in taxpayer cash buying copies of President Obama’s books. As first reported in The Washington Times, the purchase was meant to [...]
Watchdog finds much more ‘to do’ By Dave Boyer The Washington Times Thursday, October 27, 2011 President Obama has taken to claiming at recent political rallies and fundraisers that he has fulfilled 60 percent of his campaign promises from 2008, but the scorecard of an independent arbiter suggests that Mr. Obama is grading himself on [...]
By John Lott Published October 27, 2011 FoxNews.com According to the Commerce Department, our economy grew slightly faster during the third quarter. But the numbers released Thursday mean that for the year our country’s gross domestic product (also known as “GDP”) has only grown at an incredibly slow 1.4 percent. — That means it’s barely [...]
By Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney Published October 27, 2011 FoxNews.com The $400 billion Department of Defense budget decrease that President Obama handed Defense Secretary Gates as he was about to walk out the door was not received very well by even Gates. He had already taken a sizable chunk out of DoD by canceling the [...]

