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Posted 01/19/2012 06:38 PM ET Industrial Policy: The Obama administration promised a future with a clean, green economy. Instead, it’s left us with failed government “investments” in projects driven by politics rather than prudence. While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama swore he’d create millions of green jobs. “We’ll invest $15 billion a [...]
Posted 01/19/2012 06:38 PM ET Media Bias: Journalists like to claim they speak truth to power. But when Barack Obama wields that power, they’re all too willing to do his bidding, even if it means attacking one of their own. Just ask Jodi Kantor. Kantor’s book, “The Obamas,” is hardly some right-wing hit piece. She’s [...]
Posted 01/19/2012 06:38 PM ET Election ’12: As Mitt Romney’s loss in Iowa to Rick Santorum shatters the “historic” mantra, Rick Perry withdraws to endorse the former House speaker. The fat lady has not yet sung. What a difference 24 hours can make in the political arena. One minute Romney looks to be sailing toward [...]
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Jan 20, 2012 MSNBC International inspectors have confirmed that late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, the organization that oversees a global ban on such armaments announced Friday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said inspectors who visited Libya this week found sulfur mustard and artillery shells “which [...]
Published January 19, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has recommended canceling deportation proceedings for more than 1,600 illegal immigrants in Denver and Baltimore not considered a national security or public threat, a DHS official said Thursday. The recommendations come after a review of 11,682 pending cases involving illegal immigrants not jailed by [...]
By William La Jeunesse Published January 20, 2012 FoxNews.com The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico. Patrick J. Cunningham informed the House Oversight Committee late Thursday through his [...]
Published January 19, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is giving fresh backing to the Marine Corps‘ version of the next-generation strike plane, the F-35, a U.S. defense official said. The F-35, which is developing variants for the Navy and the Air Force, as well as for Britain and other allies, is [...]
Published January 19, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban, confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. But the military worries things are moving too fast, and intelligence agencies offered a gloomy prognosis in their latest Afghanistan [...]
Jan 20, 2012 By Corbett B. Daly With less than 48 hours to go before Republican voters in South Carolina decide who they want to nominate, the four remaining candidates hit the current president, the news media — and each other. WINNERS Newt Gingrich The debate sponsored by CNN in South Carolina started out with [...]

