By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, January 25, 2010 It was almost 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei was denounced as a heretic for proclaiming that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. These days, Al Gore tells giant fibs about the weather in order to line his pockets and [...]

Jan 25, 2010 By Randall Hoven President Obama, I know you’ve given lots of speeches, briefings, and statements. And you’ve schooled us well on subjects ranging from how to create or save jobs to how to change climate and achieve world peace. But there are just a few things I’m still fuzzy on, and no [...]

Regulations will jack up costs and the number of uninsured Jan 25, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Democrats are in turmoil. In the wake of last week’s Republican Senate victory in liberal Massachusetts, there’s no agreement about what to do with the government health care bill. A dazed Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted she didn’t have [...]

New taxes are based on bad politics and stupid economics Jan 25, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama has decided to take on the banking industry with the most intrusive regulatory and tax package since the New Deal of the 1930s. If the president’s failed freshman year didn’t convince the O Force of his [...]

  By Jackson Diehl Monday, January 25, 2010   While the world has been preoccupied with the crisis in Haiti, Latin America has quietly passed through a tipping point in the ideological conflict that has polarized the region — and paralyzed U.S. diplomacy — for most of the past decade. The result boils down to [...]

  By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, January 25, 2010   China disclosed the other day that its foreign exchange reserves had increased to about $2.4 trillion in 2009, up $453 billion for the year. These stupendous figures — and the likelihood that the country’s reserves will rise by a comparable amount this year — have [...]

  By David Cho, Neil Irwin and Dina ElBoghdady Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 25, 2010   For more than a year, the government pulled out the stops to revive home buying by driving down mortgage rates. Now, whether the housing market is ready or not, the government is pulling out. The wind-down of [...]

Jan 25, 2010 Washington (CNN) — Nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday morning also indicates that 63 percent of the public thinks that projects in [...]

Jan 24, 2010 Sen. Who Co-Wrote Finance Laws Not Surprised by Court Ruling Given “Skeptical, Sarcastic Comments” by Justices By Michelle Levi (CBS)  Senator John McCain, who helped rewrite the nation’s campaign finance laws, said Sunday that this week’s Supreme Court ruling removing limits from corporate spending on political advertising means that campaign finance reform [...]

Opportunities to “Take Out” Radical Cleric Anwar Awlaki In Yemen “May Have Been Missed” By MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS Jan. 25, 2010 White House lawyers are mulling the legality of proposed attempts to kill an American citizen, Anwar Awlaki, who is believed to be part of the leadership of the al Qaeda [...]