Defense secretary targets ‘climate change’ By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, May 7, 2012 America has a fresh national-security threat, an enemy is every bit as elusive as al Qaeda: global warming. That’s according to Pentagon chief Leon Panetta, who has declared war on climate change. This is a fight America can’t afford. [...]

By John Lott Published May 08, 2012 FoxNews.com Media Matters’ Founder David Brock showed no shame when he was caught illegally using guns for his own personal protection. Indeed, Media Matters’ continues to lash out at others who own guns or support letting individuals use guns for the own protection, even increasing their attacks.  In [...]

By Douglas Wissing, Douglas Wissing Published May 07, 2012 FoxNews.com American taxpayers are encountering a drumbeat of bad news from Afghanistan: Insurgents are launching coordinated complex attacks and implanting record numbers of IEDs. Strained by more than a decade of war, US troops, are implicated in Koran-burning, desecration and renegade killings.  Today the news broke [...]

By Sen. John Thune Published May 07, 2012 FoxNews.com Three years ago, President Obama ran a campaign based on the promise of “hope and change,” but for millions of Americans – from the middle class to recent college graduates – President Obama’s policies have not brought the kind of change they were promised. The policies [...]

Published May 08, 2012 Associated Press SAN DIEGO –  The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low.  The new approach — outlined in a 32-page [...]

Published May 08, 2012 The Daily Caller A spokeswoman for House oversight committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder could still avoid the contempt of Congress proceedings on the horizon — if he cooperates with the congressional subpoena he’s thus far failed to comply with. “The Justice Department [...]

May 8, 2012 by Suzanne Kelly A series of natural gas pipeline sector companies are being targeted by a cyber attack that appears to have been launched in December, according to a notice from the Department of Homeland Security. The threat was disclosed in a monthly note published by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency [...]

May 8, 2012 Back when Congress was trying to reach an agreement to raise the debt limit, leaders from both parties decided they’d only be able to work together with the threat of across-the-board spending cuts hanging over their heads. So they passed a bill in 2011 that pledged just such across-the-board cuts starting next year, which [...]

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , RICHARD ESPOSITO and RHONDA SCHWARTZ May 7, 2012 U.S. and European officials say that even though an al Qaeda bomber was stopped before he could board a plane for the U.S., the threat is far from over — there are believed to be several other would-be bombers with similar non-metallic [...]

May 8, 2012 By ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. Officials told The Associated Press a day [...]