http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521249 Drilling Ban To Cost Trillions Posted 02/16/2010 05:58 PM ET Energy: A new study shows that our reluctance to develop domestic energy will cost the beleaguered U.S. economy trillions in opportunity costs, reduce our gross domestic product and increase our trade deficit. From trying to stimulate jobs in nonexistent ZIP codes at great expense […]
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021610/content/01125108.guest.html  BAYH: We’ve got a lot of good people in Congress but they are trapped in a dysfunctional system. Uh, we need some real reform here because — as I said in your clip — the public’s business is just not getting done — and, uh, at a time of desperate need for our […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/17/us-general-2-iraqi-election-chiefs-linked-to-iran//print/ U.S. general: 2 Iraqi election chiefs linked to Iran Eli Lake The Iraqi official in charge of a commission that blocked more than 300 politicians from running in next month’s elections is working closely with Iran’s Quds Force, prompting the top U.S. general in Iraq to voice concerns about Tehran’s meddling in Iraq’s fragile […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/02/17/the_other_stupid_things_john_brennan_said The Other Stupid Things John Brennan Said Michelle Malkin Wednesday, February 17, 2010 It’s bad enough that John Brennan, President Obama’s national security deputy, thinks Gitmo jihadi recidivism is “not that bad.” But in his talk last week with Islamic law students at New York University, Brennan made even more reckless comments about our […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/17/rashad-hussain%e2%80%99s-samigate/ Rashad Hussain’s Samigate Posted By Robert Spencer Someone is covering up for Rashad Hussain. But who? And what did Barack Obama know, and when did he know it? Rashad Hussain is the Obama administration’s newly appointed special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the thuggish international organization that is engaged in […]
A Profile in Arrogance Posted By John Perazzo On February 17, 2010 @ 12:10 am In FrontPage | 1 Comment Congressman John “Jack†Murtha, who died last week at the age of 77, represented western Pennsylvania’s Twelfth District in the House for 35 years. But Murtha’s impressive longevity belies his more dubious political legacy. The […]
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/world-wide-web-of-doubt/story-e6frgd0x-1225829874281 World wide web of doubt The internet is allowing climate change sceptics to gain traction Christopher Pearson From: The Australian February 13, 2010 12:00AM PUBLIC confidence in the supposedly settled science of global warming is in free fall, especially in the English-speaking world. On Sunday a poll was published in Britain that compared the […]
Obama’s Fall | The Weekly Standard Obama’s Fall: How quickly the president and congressional Democrats have turned to tricks and ploys and sham events. Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard.com How the mighty have fallen! Only seven or eight months ago, President Obama and congressional Democrats were on their way to remaking America along liberal lines and […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-678026,00.html Chimerica’s Monetary Management China Has a Plan, America Doesn’t A commentary by Gabor Steingart in Washington America has been squandering money it borrowed from the Chinese. Instead of criticizing China’s monetary policy, US President Barack Obama should acknowledge the financial skill being displayed by the new world power and learn a few useful lessons. […]
The moral blindness of the ‘human rights’ industry Tuesday, 16th February 2010 A propos my post on Amnesty below, Evelyn Gordon makes an excellent point on the Commentary blog. She draws attention to two shocking pieces in the New York Times by Nicholas Krystof, here and here, on the war in the Congo. Gordon observes: […]
