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Politicians are grappling with deficits and debt across the Atlantic By Brett M. Decker The Washington Times Tuesday, November 29, 2011 It’s only a matter of time before Europe’s euro currency capsizes. Too many eurozone economies are drowning in red ink, and all of them cannot be bailed out by multinational institutions. The International Monetary [...]
New emails shed light on the global warming racket By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, November 29, 2011 The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009’s “Climategate” files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. The basic problem with climate [...]
Senior House Democrats flee Capitol Hill rather than stay in minority By Emily Miller The Washington Times Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Less than a year ago, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was forced to move across the second floor hall of the Capitol, leaving behind the magnificent speaker’s balcony that overlooks the National Mall. With the possibility [...]
By Sharon Poczter Published November 30, 2011 FoxNews.com To tally the list of those who have been blamed for the nation’s problems in the last three years, all ten fingers and ten toes may not be enough. The list includes, but is not limited to: President Obama, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Henry Paulson, [...]
By Michael Rubin Published November 29, 2011 FoxNews.com “Hardline Iranian students” (Read Government thugs) stormed the British embassy in Tehran this morning, smashing windows and burning the British flag. The students, protesting the latest British sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic as a result of its nuclear defiance, demanded Tehran break relations with London. Rather than [...]
By Matt Kibbe Published November 29, 2011 FoxNews.com With the embarrassing collapse of the “Super Committee” and its inability to come up with even a nominal $1.2 trillion “cut” from an artificially bloated ten year baseline, budgeting in the nation’s capital has reached a new low. Remember that this latest failure is on top of [...]
Nov 30, 2011 By Todd Starnes A Rhode Island lawmaker is calling Gov. Lincoln Chafee “Governor Grinch” after he defied lawmakers and decided that the state would have a “holiday tree” instead of a “Christmas tree.” The governor defended his decision by arguing that it is in keeping with the state’s founding in 1636 by [...]
By Judson Berger Published November 29, 2011 FoxNews.com The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board has dialed back a proposal that had members of the board on a collision course ahead of a meeting Wednesday. The original proposal would speed up and simplify union elections. In protest, the panel’s lone Republican member had threatened [...]
Nov 30, 2011 LONDON – U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron says Iran’s failure to defend the British embassy from an attack in Tehran was a disgrace that will have serious consequences. Cameron called the storming of the embassy in Tehran on Tuesday “outrageous and indefensible.” Cameron said the Iranian government will face “serious consequences” for [...]
Nov 29, 2011 By Philip Rucker and Amy Gardner TAMPA – Mitt Romney has taken his gloves off. Romney on Tuesday lodged his first attack on his surging rival, Newt Gingrich, by labeling the former House speaker “a lifelong politician” and suggesting he lacks credibility on the economy. Asked by Fox News’s Bret Baier in [...]

