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Posted 11/22/2011 06:46 PM ET Middle East: Mass bloodshed followed by Islamist rule is in Egypt’s future thanks to President Obama’s Mideast destabilization policy. A hijacked “Arab Spring” isn’t limited to the land of the pharaohs, either. A promise of mid-2012 presidential elections hasn’t appeased Cairo’s demonstrators, who demand an immediate end to the [...]
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White House support for Arab Spring doesn’t impress Arabs By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, November 22, 2011 When Egyptian protesters clashed with police late last winter, the White House peremptorily informed long-time ally President Hosni Mubarak that “an orderly transition must be meaningful, and it must begin now.” Ten months later, violent [...]
By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Tuesday, November 22, 2011 The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday downgraded its estimate of the benefits of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, saying it may have sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak last year and that over the long run it will actually be a net [...]
By Bill Gertz The Washington Times Tuesday, November 22, 2011 U.S. Strategic nuclear forces are old, in dire need of modernization and face “draconian” cuts because of the federal budget crisis, the commander of U.S. nuclear forces said Tuesday. Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, head of U.S. Strategic Command, also said China and Russia [...]
Nov 23, 2011 An effigy of Barack Obama was burned by members of a Conservative party college student association in Scotland, according to reports Wednesday. BBC News reported that the incident took place on a beach in St. Andrews on Friday evening. Matthew Marshall, president of the St. Andrews Conservative Association, told the station that [...]
By Peter Morici Published November 22, 2011 FoxNews.com President Obama and his supporters are portraying the failure of the Super Committee to slash the budget deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years as endangering the already weak economic recovery. This is absolute sophistry. A deal acceptable to Democrats would have raised taxes on the wealthy [...]
Nov 22, 2011 (CBS/AP) CAIRO – Egypt’s military ruler promised Tuesday to speed up a presidential election to the first half of 2012 and said the armed forces were prepared to hold a referendum on immediately shifting power to civilians — concessions swiftly rejected by tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square, who chanted, [...]
No 22, 2011 Analysis from ABC News Political Director Amy Walter: Losers: Herman Cain: He didn’t have a 53-second brain freeze, but it was also clear that he was out of his element. His answers to questions on foreign policy were vague and showed a thin understanding of these issues. 9-9-9: This may be the [...]
President to push for payroll tax cut extension By Seth McLaughlin The Washington Times Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is giving President Obama a “welcome” ahead of his trip to New Hampshire on Tuesday, arguing in full-page newspaper ads and a new television commercial that Mr. Obama’s policies have failed to [...]

